Los Angeles Opera opens its 2009 Fall season with Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” on Saturday evening, September 12th, conducted by James Conlon, with Giuseppe Filianoti as Nemorino, debuting soprano Nino Michaidze as Adina, and Nathan Gunn as Belcore.
Other highlights of the Fall season (September through December) include a new production of Wagner’s “Siegfried”, the third episode [...]
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Tom’s Tips for the Los Angeles Opera Scene
September 5th, 2009
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Tom’s Tips on the San Francisco Opera Scene
September 2nd, 2009
The San Francisco Opera 2009 fall season mounts six productions opening with a gala cast in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” conducted by newly installed music director Nicola Luisotti. Following are productions of Puccini’s “Il Trittico” (featuring Patricia Racette in all three operas and Paolo Gavanelli in two; of Mozart’s “Abduction from the Seraglio”, Donizetti’s “La [...]
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Tom’s Tips on the Seattle Opera Scene – Where 2009 Brings a Lush “Green Ring” and 2010 Brings a New “Tristan”
August 9th, 2009
August 9, 2009 begins the first of three complete four opera “Ring of the Nibelungs”. Less than a year later (July 31, 2010), Seattle will unveil a new production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” with Clifton Forbis as Tristan, Annalena Persson (United States debut) as Isolde, Margaret Jane Wray as Brangaene, Greer Grimsley as Kurwenal, [...]
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