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Is it just me, or was this year's staging of Tristan and Isolde a little wonky? -
Cav/Pag at Lyric Opera Northwest - Aug. 28-30 - review
Cavalleria rusticana
Santuzza - Nicolase Mallat
Turiddu - Eduardo Villa
Alfio - Danny Oakden
Lola - Boyoon Choi
Mamma Lucia - Sharon Karsner
PagliacciNedda - Ralucca Marinescu ( Read more... ) -
1. Abend: Die Walkure
Die Walkure, 8/18/09 ( Read more... ) -
Vorabend: Das Rheingold
Monday night's Rheingold exceeded my high expectations ( Read more... ) -
Tristan und Isolde, August 2010 (and beyond)
Well, it wasn't really a surprise that Seattle Opera announced that their August 2010 production would be Tristan und Isolde: frequent readers of this blog (does such an animal exist?) would know the upcoming Tristan has been mentioned more than once.
What was a surprise is that rather than being a revival of the Francesca Zambello Tristan of 1998 ( Read more... ) -
The season begins!
This Sunday, the opening performance of Das Rheingold at Seattle Opera marks the beginning of the 2009-2010 opera season in our lovely Cascadia.
The season's schedule thus far looks interesting. Here's my planned/hoped-for viewing.
- August - October
- Der Ring des Nibelungen, Seattle Opera (I'll be going to the second cycle, August 17-22)
- Cavalleria ( Read more... )
- August - October
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Thank you, internet
When I first became an opera fan, there were the Met radio broadcasts for 20 Saturdays, then "NPR" world of opera for the rest of the year. Apart from that, there were only the commercial recordings I could buy. (There was certainly no outlet for pirates in Li'l ol' Logan, UT ( Read more... ) -
Cav/Pag at Lyric Opera Northwest - Aug. 28-30
Lyric Opera Northwest have finally updated their website and officially announced performance dates for their double-bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. Fortunately for me, it's the weekend of Aug. 28-30, meaning that I won't have to attend between peformances of--or even on a performance day of--the Ring Cycle. It conflicts with Ring ( Read more... ) -
2009-2010 Season Schedule
Here's the 2009-2010 season schedule of opera as I currently know of, in order of date of first performance. I'm including all the Western Washington companies and three major companies just beyond state borders: Portland Opera, Vancouver Opera, and Pacific Opera Victoria. Subject to change. (More disclaimers below)
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The best of 2008-2009
For those of you interested in my reviews of local opera in the 2008-2009 season, here they are in their entirety.
- Aida (Seattle Opera)
- The 2nd International Wagner Competition
- Elektra (Seattle Opera)
- Elektra (Seattle Opera, second review)
- Le comte Ory (Tacoma Opera)
- Il mondo della luna (University of Washington Opera)
- The Pearl Fishers (Seattle ( Read more... )
- Aida (Seattle Opera)