Santa Fe Opera, now well into its second half-century, finally has chosen to include Britten’s 57 year old opera, ”Billy Budd”, into its repertoire. Although it is hardly appropriate to say it was worth the wait for the first presentation of an opera that many other opera companies have presented several times, there are features about [...]
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Superlative: Original 1951 “Billy Budd” Catches the Santa Fe Wind - August 14, 2008
August 24th, 2008
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Superlative: 1998 Gold Medal “Turandot” in Beijing’s Forbidden City
July 28th, 2008
Note from William - With this posting, we have created a new Category of articles on this website. This will be called “Superlatives” and we will invite various persons to add their own. My website colleague Tom, conceived the idea of the “Superlatives” and has already alerted us to the most spectacular stage show - Webber’s “Phantom [...]
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Tom’s New Year’s Pleasure: “Phantom of the Opera” in Vegas
December 30th, 2007
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