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Entries Tagged as 'Tom's Tips'

Showtime in Vegas: Tom’s Tips for “Phantom” Opera-goers

July 20th, 2008

Your Tipster has already reviewed on this website the utterly sensational Phantom of the Opera now showing at the ultra-opulent Venetian in Las Vegas.  The Phantom run will continue for at least the balance of 2008, and is now the most popular and best-selling show in all of Las Vegas. 
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Tom’s Tips on the Seattle Opera Scene - Where 2009 Brings a Lush “Green Ring”

June 26th, 2008

Long recognized by loyal Wagnerians (a militant breed if ever there was!) Seattle Opera has presented full four-opera cycles of Wagner’s Ring of the Niebelungs for more than three decades.  Starting in 1975, Seattle Opera’s founding General Director Glynn Ross made it happen and did so for the next nine consecutive summers, adding Tristan und [...]

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Tom’s Tips on the Santa Fe Opera Scene: Discovering America’s Ultimate in Summer Opera

June 23rd, 2008

By this time, every opera lover knows that each summer something very special is happening in the world opera  - in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  The Santa Fe Opera presents a season of five operas all summer in its resplendent outdoor (but covered) opera house-in-the-desert in the hills just north of Santa Fe.  It is hard to imagine [...]

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