Opera Warhorses

Note from William: The odds against any opera being successful are very long. However, if newly composed operas are not performed, or if once they are first performed, they are never performed again, then there is almost no chance of new works joining the standard operatic repertory. The Santa Fe Opera since its founding in [...]

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Note from William: This post continues my series of observances of the 50 year anniversaries of the historic performances that I attended at San Francisco Opera during the general directorship of Kurt Herbert Adler. This is the second of five such observances of performances from the company’s 1960 Fall season. My musical tastes as a [...]

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Over the past couple of years, a selection of Benjamin Britten operas, including major new productions of  ”Billy Budd’ and  ”Albert Herring” at Santa Fe Opera; ”Death in Venice” at Hamburg Staatsoper; and “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and ”Turn of the Screw” at Houston Grand Opera have been highlighted in this website’s features In Quest of Britten – [...]

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