Wolfgang Amadeus (note about film Amadeus below) Mozart’s final operatic masterpiece, “Die Zauberfloete” (The Magic Flute) once again enchants Santa Fe Opera audiences. The summer 2010 season is the 54th for The Santa Fe Opera in beautiful olde Santa Fe - now celebrating its 400th anniversary. The “Magic Flute” has been a very frequent show-stopper of the all-time operatic wunderkind [...]
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Mozart’s “Flute” Toots Magically as Santa Fe Opera’s Summer 2010 Season Ends – August 23, 2010
August 24th, 2010
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Mega-opulent “Traviata” a Spectacular Finish to San Diego Opera’s Season – April 23, 2010
April 24th, 2010
We are three years from the worldwide bicentennial celebration of the birth of the great Italian opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi. In the countdown to the bicentennial, San Diego Opera’s 2010 Season presented two of Verdi’s great successes - an utterly smashing production of the 29 year old Verdi’s first big hit, “Nabucco” (championed and conducted [...]
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Richard M. Nixon and Mao Zedong Dance at Smashing Long Beach Opera “Nixon in China” – March 20, 2010
March 21st, 2010
How can any of us Fifty-Something Plus Types ever forget that incredible, epochal meeting in February 1972 when Nixon met Chairman Mao Zedong (modern [pinyin] Chinese for the formerly spelled Mao Tse Tung) in Beijing (used to be Peking), literally changing history from that episode foreward?
Prolific American composer, Pulitzer-Prize winning John Adams (born 1947, California-based) certainly [...]
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