The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Painfully Absurd
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I feel obliged to inform you that I am participating in a panel discussion entitled "Social Media, 24 Hour News Cycles and The Future of Reviewing Theatre" presented by the San Francisco International Arts Festival and San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. The event takes place this Thursday at 6pm at the Magic Theatre…
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Cecilia Giméneza's botched restoration of Ecce Homo in Bruja, Spain is to be the subject of an opera premiering in Boulder, CO next year. Official Site | Facebook
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The Spring For Music festival in New York is holding an arts blogger challenge that involves answering various questions on a weekly basis for a month. Though I am not much for competition or contests, this seems fairly harmless and the possibilities for the earnest and absurd are promising. The first question posed, apparently due…
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Jay Hunter Morris (pictured left in the State Opera of South Australia's production of Moby-Dick) will replace Ben Heppner as Captain Ahab in the San Diego Opera's Moby-Dick on Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Heppner is ill. Morris had been originally scheduled for the San Diego performances, but withdrew to sing Siegfried in the Metropolitan Opera's…
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has asked Plácido Domingo to be part of a solutions committee for soccer's world governing body. Reuters | ESPN | FIFA
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Two fellows were arrested at a English Touring Opera performance of Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi last Tuesday in Truro, Cornwall. Apparently the men were fighting at intermission. BBC Article | English Touring Opera Official Site
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Someone at Lyric Opera of Chicago‘s Saturday performance of Carmen seems to have been arrested for assaulting an usher. Chicago Tribune Article | Lyric Opera Official Site
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This year's subscriber survey from San Francisco Opera was a little bit boring, so here are the funniest ones, with answers from the Opera Tattler filled in, of course. To be perfectly honest, I should have checked all of the boxes for question 6, but somehow that did not seem helpful, so I picked ones that I…
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In case you, gentle reader, were wondering who the Opera Tattler and her lovely guest writers are, here are some brief biographies. The Unbiased Opinionator’s first review will be posted tomorrow, covering the Boris Godunov that premieres tonight at the Met. You can hear the performance live tonight at 7pm EST.
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Though the Opera Tattler may have secured an audience with Danielle De Niese, Marco Vratogna, and Nicola Luisotti, we are wondering who you, gentle readers, would like us to interview next. It may be easiest if we limit this to those who are here in San Francisco now for the opera. Below are some suggestions,…
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