2010 is a year of two centennial celebrations, the 100th anniversary of the birth of spinto soprano Dorothy Kirsten in July, 1910 and five months later, the first performance, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, of Puccini’s “Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West)”.
In 1960, the San Francisco Opera celebrated the [...]
Entries from March 2010
50th Birthday Celebrations: Dorothy Kirsten Rides High in “Girl of the Golden West” – San Francisco Opera, October 1, 1960
March 31st, 2010
Tags: 50 Year Anniversaries
Richard M. Nixon and Mao Zedong Dance at Smashing Long Beach Opera “Nixon in China” – March 20, 2010
March 21st, 2010
How can any of us Fifty-Something Plus Types ever forget that incredible, epochal meeting in February 1972 when Nixon met Chairman Mao Zedong (modern [pinyin] Chinese for the formerly spelled Mao Tse Tung) in Beijing (used to be Peking), literally changing history from that episode foreward?
Prolific American composer, Pulitzer-Prize winning John Adams (born 1947, California-based) certainly [...]
Tags: Tom's Reviews
Festival Casting for Lyric Opera’s “Nozze di Figaro” – Chicago, March 9, 2010
March 15th, 2010
Chicago’s Lyric Opera presented a strongly cast production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” with American bass baritone Kyle Ketelsen as Figaro, Polish baritone Marius Kwiecien as Count Almaviva, Australian-American Danielle De Niese as Susanna and American mezzo Joyce DiDonato as Cherubino. Each of the comprimario roles was in good hands, led by the formidable [...]