The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Don Giovanni
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March 8-11 2008: La RondineMarch 29- April 1 2008: Samson et DalilaApril 12-15 2008: Don Giovanni April 19-22 2008: Madama Butterfly West Coast Locations (North to South): Galaxy1 Galaxy WayMonroe, WA 98272 Carmike 121331 N. Center ParkwayKennewick, WA 99336 Carmike 12750 NE Circle BoulevardCorvalis, OR 97330 Cinema West1241 Main StreetFortuna, CA 95540 Cinema West6868 McKinley StreetSebastopol,…
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October 11-19 2008: RigolettoNovember 15-23 2008: The MikadoJanuary 17-25 2009: L'Elisir d'AmoreFebruary 21- March 1 2009: Don GiovanniMarch 26- April 5 2009: Tosca Stephanie Blythe sings in The Mikado and Twyla Robinson sings Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. 2008-2009 Season Site | Official Site
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November 7-18 2008: Les Contes d'HoffmannMarch 20-31 2009: RusalkaApril 24- May 5 2009: Don Giovanni Boston Lyric Opera's next season is nicely balanced. Former Adler Fellow Kimwana Doner sings Donna Elvira. Press Release [PDF] | Official Site
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* Tattling * Yesterday’s performance was sold-out, so standing room was ridiculously full, at least for Act I. I got my ticket at 1:30pm and received ticket number 106. There was no late-seating up in the balcony, so there were tons of disgruntled latecomers who could not see the stage or the OperaVision screens because…
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* Notes * In the past week I have seen Don Giovanni twice more, in the first row and in a box. From Row A on the orchestra level, the parts that are offstage are much more noticeable, it is obvious that the sounds are coming from the speakers when they are. It was also…
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* Notes * For the second performance of Don Giovanni, I thought I would check out the new OperaVision screens in the balcony. The two screens are retractable, and the images are not fixed, so that at first we were seeing the conductor and orchestra members and later we saw both close-ups of singers and…
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* Notes * Don Giovanni opened the summer half of the 2006-2007 season in San Francisco last Saturday. The co-production with Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie premiered in 2003, and has been also been performed at the Grand Théâtre de la ville de Luxembourg and Opéra de Lille. David McVicar's production was designed by John…
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Yesterday David Gockley decided that Hope Briggs (pictured left) would not sing Donna Anna in the new production of Don Giovanni, which opens tomorrow. Instead, the current Adler Fellow Elza van den Heever (pictured right) will have her main stage debut as Donna Anna. Press Release [PDF]
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The stage director of the upcoming Don Giovanni at San Francisco Opera, Leah Hausman, moderated a panel discussion yesterday evening. The panelists included Twyla Robinson (Donna Elvira), Oren Gradus (Leporello), and Luca Pisaroni (Masetto). Though the discussion was somewhat disorganized, the panelists were all quite charming. We learnt that between the three singers they had…
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* Notes * The alternate cast of Seattle Opera’s current Don Giovanni production is well worth seeing. Their final performance is this Friday, but they also sang on January 14th and 21st. Morgan Smith had a very different characterization of the title role than Mariusz Kwiecien. Smith seemed less dangerous and more athletic. His voice…
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