The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Seattle Opera
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* Notes * Bellini’s last opera, I Puritani, had its Seattle Opera premiere at the beginning of the month, and Linda Brovsky’s production is magnificent. The sets, the work of Robert A. Dahlstrom, look inspired by the Getty Center, as there are many steel staircases and landings. This kept the action in the vertical…
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Though I have been in standing room at Seattle Opera for at least 9 performances, I never quite figured out how their system works. This is partially because standing room is never full, and partially because I let my erstwhile Seattle Opera companion, the Opernphrenologe, take charge, as she was living in Seattle up until…
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April 25- June 8 2008: Figaro (Inspired by Mozart and Beaumarchais) at Berkeley RepMay 2-11 2008: San Francisco Opera‘s The Little Prince at UC BerkeleyMay 3-11 2008: Bluebeard’s Castle and L’enfant et les sortilèges at Berkeley OperaMay 9-25 2008: Queenie Pie at Oakland Opera Also, Sacramento Opera‘s Tosca closes tonight. This weekend, instead of going…
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Seattle Opera's lease of Mercer Arena at Seattle Center was approved by the Seattle City Council. Press Release | Seattle PI Article
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November 14-22 2008: Le Nozze Di FigaroDecember 5-13 2008: Die FledermausJanuary 23-21 2009: Roberto DevereuxFebruary 13-21 2009: La BohèmeMarch 6-14 2009: L'Italiana in Algeri James Valenti is having his Dallas Opera debut as Rodolfo. William Burden is singing Lindoro in L'Italiana in Algeri, in the production San Francisco Opera audiences saw in 2005, directed by…
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August 2-23 2008: AidaAugust 16 2008: International Wagner CompetitionOctober 18- November 1 2008: ElektraJanuary 10-24 2009: Les Pêcheurs de PerlesFebruary 21- March 7 2009: Bluebeard's Castle and ErwartungMay 2-16 2009: Le Nozze di Figaro I may avoid Aida, as Andrea Gruber is in the title role, and her vibrato is overwhelming. I am not terribly…
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Last June I went to San Francisco Opera sixteen times (seventeen if one counts the rehearsal of Der Rosenkavalier I went to), and while that is excessive, one should note that there were only three productions, and only twenty-one performances. I only missed one performance of Don Giovanni because one of my best friends was…
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* Notes * Tonight was the last of eight performance of Iphigénie en Tauride at Seattle Opera.This co-production with the Met is yet another Wadsworth/Lynch collaboration, this one tending more toward the elaborately overwrought (Rodelinda) rather than the staid clean lines (Lohengrin). The stage was had a claustrophobic feel, as it was divided into three…
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Asher Fisch has been appointed the new Principal Guest Conductor of Seattle Opera. He debuted at there in 2003 with Parsifal last season and returns on August 16, 2008 to conduct the International Wagner Competition. Press Release [PDF] | The New Israeli Opera | Biography
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* Notes * Stephen Wadsworth's 1989 production Der Fliegende Holländer revived at Seattle Opera from August 4-25, 2007, and I caught the fifth and sixth performances on a weekend jaunt to the Emerald City. Thomas Lynch's sets are meant to be 19th century, but the costumes looked like contemporary street clothing. The singing was mediocre.…
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