San Diego Opera’s 2011 season opened with a production of Puccini’s “Turandot”, utilizing David Hockney’s luxuriously colorful sets and Ian Falconer’s exotic costumes, with a strong cast, each of whom met the vocal demands of their role. These “Turandot” sets and costumes, first seen at Lyric Opera in Chicago, were a co-production between the Chicago [...]
Entries from January 2011
Lindstrom, Ventre, Jaho Brilliant in San Diego Opera’s Sensuous, Transcendent “Turandot” – January 29, 2011
January 31st, 2011
Tags: 2005-2012: William's Reviews
Opera in Live Performance, Thoughts and Assessments at the End of 2010, Part Three
January 29th, 2011
This web-post continues previous discussions about the expansion of opera’s standard repertory. (See Opera in Live Performance, Thoughts and Assessments at the End of 2010, Part One and Opera in Live Performance, Thoughts and Assessments at the End of 2010, Part Two.) Preparing for the Verdi Bicentennial We are just over 23 months from the [...]
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Opera in Live Performance, Thoughts and Assessments at the End of 2010, Part Two
January 21st, 2011
This web-post continues previous discussions about the expansion of opera’s standard repertory. (See Opera in Live Performance, Thoughts and Assessments at the End of 2010, Part One.) Most observers of the contemporary state of opera performance will concede that Bizet’s “Carmen” is the most durable representative of the French repertory, and I have argued that [...]