Opera Warhorses

An appreciation and analysis of the ‘Standard Repertory’ of opera

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Entries from October 2008

Recapitulating Santa Fe’s 2008 Summer Season – Part I

October 9th, 2008

Tom’s Notes on the Santa Fe Season Part I Your website host William and I share the pleasure of reviewing this summer’s Santa Fe Opera Summer Festival Season. My 2008 Santa Fe season started with a spectacular backdrop for the stage.  Even for Santa Fe, the iridescent-red sunset for the August 18 performance of Mozart’s [...]

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Liping Zhang Resplendent in Robert Wilson’s L. A. “Butterfly” – October 1, 2008

October 5th, 2008

Los Angeles Opera in 2004 unveiled Robert Wilson’s concept production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”, incorporating the ideas from a previous Wilson “Butterfly” created a decade earlier for Opera National de Paris. In the subsequent L. A. season, Wilson’s thoughts on Wagner’s “Parsifal” introduced in Hamburg in the early 1990′s were the basis for another new Los Angeles Opera [...]

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