San Diego Opera had only presented Benjamin Britten’s ultimate masterpiece “Peter Grimes” in one previous season, 25 years ago. Its revival, again utilizing Carl Toms’ sets, returned for the 2009 Season, hugely enriched with American lyric tenor Anthony Dean Griffey. More than “starring” as Peter Grimes, Griffey dynamically personalized this gritty role, living it and [...]
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Anthony Dean Griffey Wows San Diego In a Riveting “Peter Grimes” – April 24, 2009
May 12th, 2009
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German Birds Fly High at Los Angeles Opera in Rarely Seen “The Birds” – April 23, 2009
April 26th, 2009
Los Angeles’ super-genius film-maker Alfred Hitchcock released flocks of aggressive birds in his renowned and justly famed film “The Birds” upon startled and unsuspecting film-goers decades ago, but now Los Angeles Opera has released very exotic birds of its own in their new production of German composer Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) opera “The Birds (Die Voegel)” [...]
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Vivaldi’s Revenge for Montezuma: 30 Year Old Long Beach Opera Mounts American Premiere of “Motezuma” – March 28, 2009
April 5th, 2009
Every once-in-a-while some long lost masterpiece-manuscript of a great composer’s music is remarkably re-discovered, usually in some long-forgotten, dusty attic. So it happened in with an epic-opera by the great Antonio Vivaldi (Italian 1678-1741 – think his Four Seasons heard almost daily on every classical music radio station in the world!!!), which is receiving its [...]
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