The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Painfully Absurd
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A few days ago the Savonlinna Opera Festival announced a new project entitled “Opera by You,” in which anyone with Internet access can help to write a libretto, compose music, and design sets and costumes. The work will be presented in the summer of 2012. Press Release | Official Site
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* Notes *Standing room at Opéra national de Paris is a fairly organized affair. I arrived at Opéra Bastille at around 4:30pm, asked where the standing room line was from the person at the information counter by the box office, and was directed to the main door. Outside near the gift shop door were four…
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Lindsay Lohan has canceled on going to this year's Vienna Opera Ball with Richard Lugnar tonight. AP Article | Wiener Opernball
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Richard Lugnar has invited Lindsay Lohan to this year’s Vienna Opera Ball, which occurs February 11th. AFP Article | Wiener Opernball
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Apparently Dan Brown attended the this season's opening of La Scala, a performance of Carmen, and mentioned that he could imagine the opera house as a setting for his writing. Reuters Article | La Scala
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* Notes * The fourth San Francisco Opera Costume Sale continues today from 11 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, and was clearly well-publicized. The queue started well before 9 in the morning yesterday and extended south on Indiana Street, and then west on 22nd Street all the way under the freeway (280). People…
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Soprano Gabriela Pochinki is accused of ill-behavior at Nice Matin. Official Site | News
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One could not help but notice that the Rome of the television series Mad Men took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the home of Los Angeles Opera. Culture Monster | Music Center | LA Opera
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The Opera Tattler has been sent this article no less than three times. One cannot begin to imagine why. For the record, I am only attending three of the seven Ring Cycles listed. NYT Article
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San Francisco Opera and Classical 102.2 KDFC are having a competition for who is to sing the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the simulcast of Il Trovatore this September. Video submissions can be uploaded to KDFC's Web site from August 10-17, and listener voting will begin the week of August 24. The three finalists will be judged…
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