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seeking: film adaptation of Der Ring des Nibelung

2008-07-06T00:52:34Z

I've recently become a Wagner enthusiast and just had the opportunity to see Das Rheingold performed in San Francisco. Suffice to say it was one of the great artistic experiences of my life - particularly the first scene with the Rhinemaidens, which was as beautiful as anything I've ever seen.

I would love to see the full tetralogy performed, but alas, that won't be any time soon. I imagine DVD is a distant second place, but I'll take what I can get at this point.

I'd love to hear recommendations for good filmed productions - I know that several exist. My first priority is that it be semi-traditional. The version I saw was a bit anachronistic in that they strongly emphasized the social commentary of the operas (obviously someone has been reading Shaw). The stage dressing suggested industrial America, but they didn't overdo it. It was right on the edge of what works for me - I really do not want any hydroelectric dams in the Rhine.

Besides being on the semi-traditional side, I'm looking for fine music, decent performances, and competent stages, in that order of importance.

So ... any recommendations? Any thoughts? I would be most grateful for your views.

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Harmony

2008-01-06T05:09:58Z

I really enjoyed Peter's very emotional description of the significance of harmony here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dsPQBwfsHg&feature=related

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Secret record stash underneath the Paris Opera?

2008-01-02T03:45:30Z

I recall reading somewhere that there's a well-hidden room of grammaphone records given by a record executive to the Paris Opera in 1907 with instructions not to be opened until 100 years later - I remember doing the math and making a note to self to pay attention in the summer of 2007 to see if there are any announcements, but I don't think I've seen any news articles referring to this. Does anybody know if this unveiling ever came to pass, or have other details?

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SF Opera: La Rondine and Macbeth

2007-11-11T01:18:04Z

If anyone is in the SF Bay Area this week, I am finding myself with an extra pair of tickets for both these shows: La Rondine on Tuesday, 13 Nov, and Macbeth on Wednesday, 14 Nov (opening night). Let me know if you're interested...

http://sfopera.com/opera.asp?o=255
http://sfopera.com/opera.asp?o=256

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First opera

2007-08-07T00:04:25Z

It was 1979 and I was a penniless law trainee in the City of London. With friends I went to Covent Garden, in the least expensive seats. We arrived late - the auditorium was in darkness.I watched the first act of Norma, then marvelled as the house lights glowed brighter and the theatre revealed itself to me for the first time. How the grey, minimalist production, decades ahead of its time, contrasted with the opulent gold and scarlet interior. I was 22, and fell in love with opera that night. So many memories.

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Opera Night on the Playa

2007-06-28T17:46:53Z

Hey all you burning opera singers out there. Going to B-man? Wanna sing and stuff? My camp "The Lost Penguin Cafe" will be hosting a Goth/Opera night and we are interested in having more than just me sing.
If you are interested, please let me know!

Psywren

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SF Opera's "Iphigenie en Tauride" - Go see it!

2007-06-18T20:53:36Z

I just went to SF opera yesterday to see "Iphigenie en Tauride", and I must say never had that much of excitement from a opera. I wasn't expecting that from a piece by Gluck, but I was wrong. The music was beautifully performed by Susan Graham, and the production was pure genius. On the black box stage, all the characters wear black, and water and swords are the only prop. The minimalistic production design really carried out the psychological drama of the characters. Use of chalk on to the wall and floor, and the lighting that creates giant shadows on the back wall is very effectively used to accentuate the drama.
Go see this production. It is one of the best you'll see.
Nao

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Italian Opera Festivals Tour this summer

2007-02-08T00:53:54Z

Anyone interested. Bill Glassman who teaches opera at Fullerton College is escorting a group to Italy this summer. This is a really unique tour with the possibility of seeing up to 8 operas during the tour. You can reach him for more information at bglassman@fullcoll.edu

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The Beastly Bombing on Air America!

2007-02-06T19:55:40Z

Today (Tuesday Feb 6, 2007), you have a reason to find your old AM radio and listen! The Beastly Bombing will be on Air America! The station that hosts Al Franken and Jesse Jackson has asked the Beastly Bombing to visit the studios. We will be on the show "Harrison on the Edge!" In Los Angeles, he is broadcast on KTLK AM 1150.

You can also listen on the internet here--

http://www.ktlkam1150.com/main.html

Or here-

http://www.goharrison.com/

Harrison archives his shows so if you miss it, why not listen to one of them futuristical podcasts.

The show is from 8-10 PM and we are scheduled to be on sometime after 8:45.

And please come see the show this weekend. We've been selling out like crazy. Why are you waiting? Buy your tix at http://www.thebeastlybombing.com/

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LA Opera's Manon

2007-01-10T22:36:53Z

Has anyone else seen it? I saw a dress rehearsal, and the verdict was: Absolutely fabulous.
Anna Netrebko is a marvel. A fantastic singer who is also a wonderful actress, she brought to the role a juxtaposition of enormous, passionate singing and girlish femininity. The tenor, Rolando Villazon was not someone I had heard of before, but he was amazing as well. The night I saw him, he did crack on the high note of "En Ferment les Yeux", but considering that most people sing that note falsetto and he managed to sing it pianissimo in his full voice, cracking on that note is completely forgivable, especially since the rest of his performance was so memorable. All the singing was wonderful, really. The sets and costumes were great, too. They were mostly period sets with hints of modern absurdity which were so tastefully blended in that they were believable, and the director did really beautiful things with the lighting. Placido Domingo conducted, which was... interesting. It was really fun to see him down there, but a few of his tempos made it obvious why he is a singer and not a conductor. Even considering Domingo's semi-buffoonish batonery, the show was fantastic and I highly, highly recommend it! The last Opera I saw LA Opera do was Butterfly, and the Robert Wilson production was so blah that this seemed like operatic manna from heaven. See it!

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opera with cats meowing

2006-12-11T03:05:46Z

hi there. i just heard this opera on the radio the other day and want to know what it is called. have any of you heard of an opera with people meowing like cats in it? it was so great!
thanks!
eli

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creative, amusing ideas please - famous duets

2006-11-20T12:55:01Z

Hi all
I had the idea of adding "libretto bubbles" from a duet to a very funny family picture we took of two small toddlers - my niece looking as though she's passionately belting out something, center stage, while my son joins her with some gentle backing, rolling his eyes heavenwards. We thought it would make a great greeting card. Anybody feel like applying themselves to the problem?

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A new operetta called "The Beastly Bombing Or A Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed by the Tangles of True Love" debuts in Los Angeles and gets rave reviews!

2006-10-10T07:18:35Z

Check out some of the music here-

http://www.thebeastlybombing.com/

The LA Weekly just reviewed it and gave it a rave! Here it is--

http://www.laweekly.com/stage/theater/up-in-smoke/14718/

Up in Smoke

Written by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
A musical comedy sums up our grave new world

Writer-director Julien Nitzberg and composer Roger Neill’s light opera, The Beastly Bombing: A Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed by True Love (world-premiering at the Steve Allen Theater), is a striking concoction of urbane nihilism and Victorian charm. It could become a cult classic, a political valentine to the first decade of the new century.

Things start with the bombing of the Brooklyn Bridge, during which nobody gets killed. September 11 is never mentioned, nor is Iraq. The show’s respectfulness and restraint end there. Everything else — Bush-family parodies, vignettes about skinheads, Japanese warriors unaware that World War II has ended, religious extremists and conspiracy theories — turns on the sharp spit of the creators’ satire, while the world goes up in smoke.

By all rights, Nitzberg and Neill’s black-hearted creation should be awful. In addition to transforming Islam, Judaism, al Qaeda and American foreign policy into cartoons scribbled on cocktail napkins, The Beastly Bombing contains everything we already know about the lunacy of international politics and have seen before, from Jon Stewart all the way back to Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 movie, Dr. Strangelove.

In the 21st century, we’ve seen the old optimism spawned by nuclear-nonproliferation treaties and other gestures of cooperation quickly evaporate in the face of new generations of religious zealots and nuclear-saber rattlers, plus the added delights of global warming. So how does an artist — languishing on the fringes of power in this society — cope with the prospect of our imminent demise, made manifest by those in power?

In the late ’40s and early ’50s, Samuel Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot and Endgame; 10 years later, Kubrick came up with Dr. Strangelove, though I always found these works more alarming/depressing than funny. But they were also amazing for their capacity to hold Armageddon in their knapsacks while clicking their heels on the way to the graveyard. Even through all the contortions of farce, they just felt so true. Though the classical rules tell us that comedy hangs on the possibility of redemption, Beckett and Kubrick offered none, nor does The Beastly Bombing. These are all ironic, nihilistic comedies, conjured by the sight of a civilization suffering a heart attack of its own making. Only a mental patient or a believer in the Rapture should find mirth in that. Why, then, does The Beastly Bombing feel so fresh, almost sweet?

For the answer to this, you have to turn to the Secret Order of Revolutionary Operettists (SORO), a secret society founded, rumor has it, by Nitzberg and Neill — a pair of punk rockers who made one CD that went nowhere, then turned their attentions to light opera. SORO’s clandestine Web site sheds little light on the organization’s origins, though its manifesto condemns the decadence of the 12-tone scale, of minimalism in art, of jazz, of everything that isn’t “lovely” and “melodic.” This leads it to praise Offenbach and the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan — from whom Neill’s score and Nitzberg’s lyrics so gleefully derive.

One scene in The Beastly Bombing has the secretary of state (Natalie Salins) giving U.S. President Dodgeson (Jesse Merlin) intelligence that the Saudis are responsible for the bombing of the bridge, to which the president responds with disbelief and replies in song, as though with a lyric by Tom Lehrer, with a vain and melodramatic jollity:

Some say about terrorism I’m a fraud,
’Cause I love, I love, I love the house of Saud.
When I see their princes, I just applaud,
Oh I love, I love, I love the house of Saud . . .

Fellas can drive but not the broads,
Oh I love, I love, I love the house of Saud.

An interchange between the secretary of state and the president follows: “But, sir, they’ve got no democracy.”/“What’s so goddamn bad about theocracy?”/“But they observe no human rights.”/“If I could do that too, I just might! I-La la la la la la la-la-la-la.”

A few scenes later, the president spins a globe, looking for some unknown little country to blame, his finger landing on Chad. (“Just the sound of it makes me mad.”) Let the bombs start dropping.

Nitzberg stages the mayhem as a frolic by a fine company that includes Heather Marie Marsden and Darrin Revitz as the president’s two daughters, in New York on a drug quest. Jill McGraw’s baroque production design features, literally, a huge storybook with pages that unfold to create a new scenic backdrop, which frames the musical’s bristling ironies. Accused of the bombing, which they were too inept to pull off, skinheads (Jacob Sidney and Aaron Matijasic) and al Qaeda terrorists (Andrew Ableson and Russell Steinberg) dance (in Allen Walls’ stylishly flippant choreography) incognito in Hasidic garb (comic-book costumes by Susan Matheson). The chilling finale features a mocking celebration of love (one skinhead and terrorist unite romantically behind their common hatred of Israel), while everyone looks out at fireworks (“Oooh!” “Aaaah!”) that are actually missiles. For all that, the work’s most revolutionary accomplishment is to challenge the newspaper reality of plays like David Hare’s Stuff Happens by arriving at truths through caricatures. Its lunatic explanations seem to make more sense than the news imparted by press conferences and editorial pages. And even if they don’t, they’re a lot more entertaining.

THE BEASTLY BOMBING | Written and directed by JULIEN NITZBERG | Composed and musically directed by ROGER NEILL | Presented by THE SECRET ORDER OF REVOLUTIONARY OPERETTISTS and THE STEVE ALLEN THEATER at the CENTER FOR INQUIRY–WEST, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., L.A. | Through Nov. 18 | (800) 595-4849 or www.steveallentheater.com

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Kirov Ring in Orange County this Fall - ticket available

2006-09-08T03:41:15Z

I've suddenly got an extra ticket for the Kirov Opera production of Wagner's Ring that's happening 10/6-11 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (this Fall). It's a really good seat -- and the other three of us are very fun people and big Wagnerheads.

Anyone interested (or know anyone who might be)? It's an expensive enough ticket that I'd like not to wait 'til the last minute to find someone who wants to go!

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If you could become..........

2006-08-30T05:07:32Z

If you could become a character from opera, which would it be?

I'd like to experience the ultimate peace and resignation of the Baron in "Der Rosenkavalier".

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Beverly Sills, Sempre Libera and the Muppets

2006-06-22T00:52:01Z

A very amusing little clip from The Muppets television program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsHrgTMWr4c

This may be the only time on record that Sills assayed Brunhilde's battle cry ;-)

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Long Leaf Opera, Chapel Hill, NC

2006-05-11T16:48:55Z

You are invited to visit and join our new tribe: tribes.tribe.net/longleafopera

Thank you!

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A Quiet Place

2006-04-23T09:36:27Z

Has anyone ever seen Leonard Bernstein's Opera, "A Quiet Place?"

I used to listen to the sound track and was always curious what it would play like live on a stage. It has a couple beautiful songs.

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Famous Arias

2006-04-12T01:41:32Z

Hello all

I am creating a band that performs arias and art songs, as well as rocking out. I am looking for suggestions for songs to do that everyone will recognize. I am thinking things that have been in movies commercials etc. I am a soprano, but we could also arrange songs to be in a better key if they are too low.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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CSULA Opera Theatre Presents... "La Canterina" and "Gigantes y Cabezudos"

2006-04-03T23:48:00Z

Hello Everyone!

I'm new on this tribe, so I'd like to extend an invitation to all those of you who are lovers and supporters of the Performing Arts, in particular opera and zarzuela.

CSULA Opera Theatre will be presenting two one acts; "La Canterina" (The Diva), in Italian with English subtitles, and also "Gigantes y Cabezudos" in Spanish/English with English/Spanish subtitles. The following is a schedule of dates and times of opera performances at Cal-State LA. These will be held at The State Playhouse located on campus, right next to the Music Department.

March 31, April 1, 6, 7 & 8 @ 8:00PM
April 9 at 3:PM (Sunday Matinee)

Directed by: Vera Calabria
Conductor: Steven Byess

Hope to see you all at the Opera!

P.S. I'll be playing the parts of Jesus and Tio Isidro in "Gigantes y Cabezudos"

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want to create an opera workshop

2006-03-23T07:07:26Z

Hi, I wondered if maybe anyone wanted to band together and create an opera workshop. Just some fun singing and keeping in practice.

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Favorite Unknowns

2006-02-08T02:39:39Z

It just occured to me, after trying (unsuccessfully) to find any information about one of my favorite lesser -known operas (Smetana's "The Brandenburgers in Bohemia") ... how many more great works are also out there, unheard, unappreciated, but which could really find an audience if given a chance? On the other hand, how many operas are out there whose greatness is recognized, but are, for whatever reason, never performed? What's your wish list? Mine include:

Auber's "Le Muette de Portici"
Catalani's "La Wally"
Fibich's "Sarka"
Erkel's "Bank Ban"
Dvorak's "The Jacobin," "Dmitri," & "Vanda"
Goldmark's "Queen of Sheba"
Lalo's "Roi d'Ys"
Moniousko's "Halka"
Meyerbeer's "Dinorah" & "Le Prophete"
Massenet's "Roi de Lahore"
Offenbach's "Rhenixxen" (besides "Hoffman" his other true opera)
Nielsen's "Maskerade"
von Flotow's "Alessandro Stradella"
R. Strauss' "Woman without a Shadow" & "Egyptian Helen"
Siegfried Wagner - anything! (he definitely can hold a candle to his old man!)
Donizetti - anything, besides the handfull usually performed...
Bellini - ditto (although, how often do we see "Norma" these days? hmmm?)

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Tales of Hoffmann DVD

2005-12-10T00:43:27Z

Just in time for holiday gift-giving Criterion has released a newly remastered version of the famous Michael Powell/Emric Pressburger film adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera 'The Tales of Hoffmann'. Like the great directing team's better known movie 'The Red Shoes', 'Hoffmann' stars ballet greats Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, and Robert Helpmann acting out the story through dance. Thomas Beecham conducts the score (the singers listed aren't familiar to me). http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=317&section=synopsis

At DVD Talk, Glenn Erickson writes a thorough and interesting review, placing the film in the context of Powell/Pressburger's other great Technicolor extravaganzas: http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1825hoff.html

I don't know about you, but this DVD is going to the top of my Christmas wish list!

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Contemporary Operas

2005-12-05T22:40:15Z

I was wondering if you guys could give me a list of a few of you favorite contemporary operas. (Like Phantom)

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Truth is stranger than fiction...

2005-11-28T06:15:43Z

We probably all know about English Wagnerian soprano Jane Eaglen's fondness for warming up to a stint as Brunhilde or Isolde by belting out a Meatloaf tune or two, but Welsh opera star, basso Bryn Terfel, actually gets mistaken for the loaf frequently! The story:

Terfel 'mistaken for Meatloaf'
Opera star Bryn Terfel has revealed that American rock fans often mistake him for rocker Meatloaf.

The bass baritone said that on trips to New York he frequently gets mobbed by Meatloaf fans asking for his autograph.

Terfel said that as a fan of the singer, best known for his album Bat out of Hell, he took the autograph requests as a compliment.

But he said he would draw the line at covering one of Meatloaf's famous rock anthems.

"People have come up to me in the street saying 'Hey Meatloaf, I love that song you do, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad,'" Terfel told the Daily Post newspaper.

"It was more when I had long hair," he added.

Terfel, who is from Pantglas near Caernarfon spent time in New York earlier this year when he played Falstaff at the Metropolitan Theatre.

He said that as a fan of Meatloaf his favourite song was Bat out of Hell.

But despite his admiration for the long haired rocker, he said he couldn't be persuaded to cover one of his songs.

"Never in a month of Sundays - it would be wrong. You should draw the line at that," he said.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4438836.stm

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Dr Atomic

2005-11-26T22:26:12Z

Anyone see this? I met Peter Sellars earlier this year, sort of unexpectedly randomly, after I'd gotten tickets for the opera, which sounded amazing. It was good for the most part, although conceptually it succeeded better than it did in production. Somehow the repetitive singing of nuclear bomb components doesn't come off as lyrically as one might think. My sense is it would have worked quite well as a less-than-3-hour long masterpiece too.

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Brunnhilde!

2005-10-31T18:39:18Z

Yippee!! I finally put a Brunnhilde costume together for halloween! I'll have to post a pic later. I know, I'm a geek. :)

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Catherine Nagelstad

2005-10-30T19:21:52Z

Ms Nagelstad is appearing as Norma in San Francisco.
Friends are going tomorow night. I may follow in the coming weeks. Rumor has it that she is superb. Anyone know more about her?

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Norma tonight! ticket anailable

2005-10-29T20:07:07Z

Any Bellini fans out there who would like a free box ticket to tonight's performance of Norma....write very soon

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seeking opera coach

2005-09-23T22:42:12Z

I am looking for a coach who can guide me in the right direction to prepare for a more fulfilling singing career. I have natural talent, have a Vocal Performance Certificate from Shenandoah Conservatory, and have sung opera for 5 years. I have my own writing and singing style, but I don't want to lose the ability to sing finer things.

I'm looking for recommendations for someone in the LA area, as I would like to be a part of the LA opera next season.

Thanks,

Rebecca

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The Groove House: Live Music Concert Series

2005-08-14T19:40:26Z

THE GROOVE HOUSE is an exclusive live music concert, networking event, followed by an after party. Since April 10, 2005, its goal has been to provide a stimulating environment where aspiring & talented musicians & vocalists can display their talents in front of influential members of the music industry & society at large. Our vision is to be the premiere venue for new artists, music industry professionals, & discerning members of society who want quality entertainment every fourth Friday at Club Damani. All participants gain exposure via physical flyers, internet, various publications. Be on the lookout for The Groove House, as we hit the road, possibly in your town.

Emage Entertainment, via The Groove House is bringing together professionals. The Black Lily was the premiere venue that brought representatives of industry, from far and near. Today Philly has a new Emage. Join us in our trek to establish history.

PS There is a model search for 2006 Vixen Calender via Emage Entertainment Group

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Cello & Voice?

2005-08-10T06:49:41Z

I'm a cellist looking to collaborate with a tenor and/or soprano with piano & was wondering if anyone knows of any cool stuff? There's a great piece on Renee Fleming's CD The Beautiful Vioce which I can't find anywhere:Epilogo from Cano's opera Luna. I know Verdi loved the cello & there are tons of beautiful cello soli in his operas but I can't think of anything specific which might be easy to find the music for... I suppose I'd have to do some arranging... combine the piano score & the cello solo from the orchestral score I guess.

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la boheme

2005-07-25T16:28:51Z

last night i went to the opening of la boheme in sf.

the sets were fantastic. the voices rich and expressive. but the opera and its music left me flat.

i will admit the seats were very high up so the expressions of the cast were completely lost on me. but still, the story did not engage me and the music didn't pull me into the story.

for such an acclaimed opera ... i didn't see the appeal.

any thoughts?

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Tales of Hoffmann, Seattle Opera

2005-05-28T18:35:07Z

Just saw this earlier in the week and had to rave. I've never laughed so much during an opera! Hilarious slapstick and humor, and not in a refined 'comic opera' kind of way.

I didn't know what to expect but was really impressed. This would be a great opera for folks new to / unsure about opera. Very funny, great melodic music, not too long.

Reviews:
http://theoperacritic.com/company.php?company=sea

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Deborah Voight has weight-loss surgery

2005-04-01T22:26:50Z

According to a New York Times article, she had already decided to have the surgery before she was fired by Covent Garden last year for being too big.

Voight decided to go ahead with the surgery despite very legitimate fears that her voice might be damaged by the surgery itself or the resulting weight loss. Thankfully, according to the article, it hasn't, and incredibly, she was able to perform again just 7 weeks after the surgery (has anyone here seen her sing since then?). She's now lost 100 pounds, which has opened up a lot of new roles to her.

What do you guys think? Was she crazy to risk her voice? And how much should an opera singer's appearance count? Does it detract from your enjoyment to see a 350-pound woman playing an ingenue?

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Recommendations?

2005-01-19T02:15:43Z

Just had my birthday and am still deciding over one present that's to come. So if it's not going to be another bluegrass fiddle book, I'm thinking maybe another great performance-like opera on CD would do. My collection is meager -- mostly highlights from the best performed arias, the Callas 4-CD collection, and my favorite opera, Carmen, with a young Placido Domingo.

Any suggestions?

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Victoria de los Angeles

2005-01-17T17:23:32Z

I'm sorry to report that she has died. She was 81 years old.

And what a lovely voice she had. Victoria of the Angels she was indeed.

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What Are Your Favorite Opera Sets/Productions?

2005-01-03T15:24:14Z

Following up on the Barbieri di Siviglia thread...

If you've gone to the opera much, or just watched it on video, you've certainly seem some sets which have been stunning, and maybe one or two that totally left you cold.

Which ones? Which operas, and where/how did you see them? For those of you who are frustrated designers, here's your chance to sound off!

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Barber of Seville...wow!

2004-12-03T00:55:45Z

Anyone catch this at the SF Opera? I saw it for the firs time two weeks ago and was amazed by the set design. It really blew me away as well as the performances of the evening.

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pic ...

2004-01-07T17:25:51Z

i uploaded some pics ... could the mod assign one to the tribe?

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