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Tom’s Tips for the 2011 Santa Fe Opera Festival

June 22nd, 2011

By this time, every opera lover knows that each summer something very special is happening in the world of 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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Pharoah Akhnaten, King Tut’s Dad, Flees Egypt and Lands at Long Beach Opera

February 11th, 2011

Southern California opera lovers are in for a real treat coming up March 19 and 27, 2011 at Long Beach Opera which presented a smashing “Nixon in China” a year before its much heralded debut at the Met this month in New York City ! [Below: the Pharoah Akhnaten; resized image, based on a photograph of [...]

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Intimate Opera’s “Amahl” Presented at Venerable Pasadena Playhouse’s Christmastide – December 16, 2010

December 17th, 2010

In past years, Tom’s Tips have featured such diverse holiday fare as the Bracebridge Dinner during Christmas Week at Yosemite National Park and “Phantom of the Opera” performances in Las Vegas. This year, he will highlight a production of Menotti’s Christmas opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors”, performed by the newly formed Intimate Opera Company [...]

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