Opera Warhorses

The 1987 David Hockney production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”, one of the treasures of the Los Angeles Opera, traveled to the mid-continent for the first time for nine performances at Chicago’s Lyric Opera.
Lyric’s headliner was its Isolde, Deborah Voigt. Although 12 days earlier, she had been indisposed for one performance (which proved an opportunity [...]

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[Wm: This is the second part of my interview with Ian Campbell, the General and Artistic Director of the San Diego Opera, and the stage director of a new production of Massenet's "Don Quixote (Don Quichotte)".]
Wm: I understand that you became friends with Luciano Pavarotti in Australia in the 1960s.
Yes, it was in 1965 that [...]

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“Don Quixote (Don Quichotte)”, a work of Jules Massenet’s maturity, had its premiere in 1910, the last year of the 20th century’s first decade. Ninety-nine years later, the San Diego Opera has mounted a new production of this work. 
[Below: a poster prepared for the Parisian premiere of "Don Quixote (Don Quichotte)", at the Theatre de [...]

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