Opera Warhorses

Santa Fe Opera audiences have been treated in recent years to two of England’s great composer Benjamin Britten’s most gritty – and greatest – works, most recently his “Billy Budd” in the 2008 season reviewed by your website host William (who noted it as one of his most superlative productions ever), a hard-edged, gut-wrenching maritime [...]

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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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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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