The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Long Beach Opera
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* Notes * Long Beach Opera just gave the American premiere of Vivaldi's Motezuma at the end of March. I attended yesterday's second and final performance of this run, over at Santa Monica High School. From the very beginning things went awry, the overture was not played well under the direction of conductor Andreas Mitisek.…
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January 17-25 2009: The Cunning Little VixenMarch 28- April 5 2009: MotezumaMay 9-17 2009: The Emperor of Atlantis / The Clever One Vivaldi’s Motezuma will have its U.S. premiere with these performances, 276 years after it was written. LA Times Article | Official Site
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February 17-19 2008: Orpheus & Euridice March 14-16 2008: Enoch Arden and Frankenstein!!May 9 2008: Frederica von Stade RecitalJune 4-8 2008: The Diary of Anne Frank Long Beach Opera opens its 2008 season next weekend with Ricky Ian Gordon's Orpheus & Euridice with Todd Palmer and Elizabeth Futral in the title roles.
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On Super Tuesday I heard a segment on the BBC NewsPod dealing with some controversy over a Spanish musical about Anne Frank. Apparently it took 10 years for the producer, Rafael Alvero, to get the musical off the ground, and the Anne Frank-Fonds still has not granted Alvero rights. Board member Christoph Knoch spoke about…
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