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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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Tom’s Tips: Opera-going in Northern Germany’s Biggest Cities – Part I: Cologne

April 29th, 2009

This post is the first in the series of three Tom’s Tips on opera-going in Northern Germany. This post will highlight Cologne (Koeln), followed by the Tom’s Tips for Hamburg and Berlin. Interspersed between the Tom’s Tips will be William’s reviews from the Hamburg Staatsoper (See Michael Schade, Nmon Ford, Gabriele Frola Brilliant in Hamburg’s New [...]

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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.  (To access the “Phantom” review, [...]

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