This post continues the essay I began in the feature Opera in Live Performance: Thoughts and Assessments at the End of 2009, Part One. I don’t know if I would characterize the Part One as necessarily pessimistic, even though I argued that a considerable amount of the revenues that operatic performance received from philanthropy may be [...]
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Opera in Live Performance: Thoughts and Assessments at the End of 2009, Part Two
March 5th, 2010
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Opera in Live Performance: Thoughts and Assessments at the End of 2009, Part One
January 14th, 2010
For the past four years, I have published my thoughts on the performance of grand opera, usually as reviews of live performances that I have attended, mostly in the American West (defined here as a line from mid-Pennsylvania to the Pacific Ocean), but I also include reviews from such non-American West outposts as France and [...]
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Grading Gockley’s San Francisco Opera 2009: Another Straight A Average
December 25th, 2009
In 2009, I personally reviewed 48 performances of operas at 11 different opera companies in the United States and Germany. Time and logistics make it impossible to see every production at every company I visit each year. However, I have managed to attend at least one performance of every main season production mounted by the [...]