Wagner’s four opera “Ring of the Nibelungs” is, under the most favorable of circumstances, a complex undertaking for an opera company, yet three of the four largest opera companies on America’s Pacific Coast are mounting their own versions of the “Ring” in productions as unalike from each other as one can imagine.
One set of Rings [...]
Entries from June 2009
Gods and Nibelungs on the Pacific Coast: the Three Ring “Rheingolds”
June 13th, 2009
Tags: Quests and Anticipations
In Quest of Donizetti – A 2009-10 Update
June 6th, 2009
In September 2007, this website launched an examination of the current state of the “Donizetti Revival”. (That month was the fiftieth anniversary of Leyla Gencer’s first bel canto role, the title role of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” at San Francisco Opera, and it was Gencer whose career was most closely associated with the “Donizetti Revival” [...]
Tags: Quests and Anticipations