Opera Warhorses

An appreciation and analysis of the ‘Standard Repertory’ of opera

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Entries from January 2012

Opera in Live Performance, Thoughts and Assessments at the End of 2011, Part Two

January 3rd, 2012

Robert, who has had the San Francisco Opera subscription seats across the aisle from me for decades, related a funny incident to me. According to him, a young woman, attending her first opera at a Los Angeles Opera performance of  Puccini’s “Tosca”, came out at the intermission after the second act and remarked about Tosca [...]

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