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Recapitulating Santa Fe’s 2008 Summer Season - Part I

October 9th, 2008

Tom’s Notes on the Santa Fe Season Part I 
Your website host William and I share the pleasure of reviewing this summer’s Santa Fe Opera Summer Festival Season. My 2008 Santa Fe season started with a spectacular backdrop for the stage.  Even for Santa Fe, the iridescent-red sunset for the August 18 performance of Mozart’s “Marriage [...]

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Winter of Content Part III - the Santa Barbara Italian Passions Festival

May 22nd, 2008

Note: This is the third and final part of a review of the 2007-08 Midwinter Opera Scene in Southern California.  Previous reviews of operas performed by the Los Angeles Opera, San Diego Opera and Opera Pacific (Orange County) may be found in Tom’s Winter of Content: Midwinter Opera in Sunny Southern California 2007-08 (March 2008 Archives) and Winter [...]

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Winter of Content: Southern California Opera 2007-08, Part II

April 18th, 2008

January in Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County 
In the previous part of this celebration of Southern California’s 2007-08 Operatic Winter Wonderland, I lauded the Los Angeles Opera’s “Don Giovanni”.  This was followed by the “California Does Wagner” festivities in January, with the Los Angeles Opera performing “Tristan und Isolde” and the San Diego Opera [...]

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