The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Opera in Visual Art
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This is the finale of Act II from Idomeneo. In the background we have a looming, four-headed horse monster sent by Neptune. Details of Painting | Performance Review of Idomeneo
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Here we have Act II Scene 2 of Die Tote Stadt. Frank is singing about Marietta to the horrified Paul. I believe the person who sings the roles of Frank and Fritz has a very stressful quick costume change just after this scene. Details of Painting | Performance Review of Die Tote Stadt
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Though the Fall portion of the San Francisco Opera season is half over, I'm still slowly working my way through an opera cupcake painting project based on what we've seen so far. This is a rendering of Act II Scene 2 of The Bonesetter's Daughter. Precious Cupcake was the most fun to paint, for obvious…
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As threatened, I've finally gotten around to combining opera and cupcakes. This is a depiction of Act II Scene 2 of the Simon Boccanegra that opened the San Francisco Opera season. I'll have you know that it took longer to write out those few bars of music than to paint the rest of the scene…
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In the Loge, 1878Mary Stevenson Cassatt, American, 1844–192681.28 x 66.04 cm (32 x 26 in.)Oil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston I've never thought too much of Impressionism in general or Cassatt in particular, but this opera painting did catch my attention on a recent jaunt over to Boston. The painting compares favorably to Renoir's…
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I'm being kept quite busy with non-opera activities, so I present to you an opera painting from 2003. This acrylic on paper work was painted after I had gone to a performance of Händel's Serse at the Bavarian State Opera. It was one of the few times in Munich that I wasn't in standing room. The…
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Loge (1874) sold for more than twice the estimated price of 2.5-3.5 million pounds in London yesterday. The Guardian reports that the picture will be shown at the Courtauld Gallery after all. The Guardian Article | Art Daily Article | La Loge Exhibit
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A version of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Loge (1874) is going on auction at Sotheby's next Tuesday. A larger likeness of Nini and Edmond in a Paris Opera box exists at the at the Courtauld Gallery in London. Interestingly, a special exhibit there entitled "Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at La Loge" begins February 21 and…
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