When purchasing a ticket for an opera, the opera company’s often includes the statement that “casts and operas are subject to change”. Over time, opera goers inevitably will experience cast changes, such as I did earlier this year at Houston’s “Faust” (see my review elsewhere on this website). But how often does an opera company [...]
Entries Tagged as '50 Year Anniversaries'
Callas Fired, An Opera Changed - S. F. Opera’s “Aida” at the Fox, November 7, 1957
May 16th, 2007
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Young Rysanek Promotes Strauss at L. A.’s Shrine - “Ariadne auf Naxos” - November 1, 1957
May 9th, 2007
Leonie Rysanek, in the second of four seasons that she performed with the San Francisco Opera in the last half-decade of the 1950s, introduced Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” to Los Angeles at its famous 6500-seat behemoth, the Shrine Auditorium. “Ariadne” was one of two new productions designed for Rysanek to premiere the two most [...]
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S. F. Opera’s “La Traviata” in San Diego - October 31, 1957
March 22nd, 2007
San Diego’s Fox Theatre has been an imposing landmark since it was launched in 1929 as a great movie palace, in ceremonies attended by visiting delegations of Hollywood stars. By the mid-1930s it was part of the entertainment behemoth created by merging the Fox Theatres with Twentieth Century Pictures. San Diego’s Fox Theatre [...]
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