koch tease
La Cieca hears that the New York City Opera will present four five productions during their 2009-2010 season, including a new staging of Don Giovanni directed by David Christopher Alden and starring Daniel Okulitch (pictured). Revivals of “old” NYCO productions at The David H. Koch Theater include Weisgall’s Esther (with Lauren Flanigan), L’etoile, Partenope and Madama Butterfly.
As much as I’m against transposition, I think Okulitch will make a lovely Zerlina.
Sanford: Don’t you understand? We have to boo and hiss no matter what the NYCO does. All the cool kids are doing it. Like Whatever, I am reserving judgment until we see their first complete season. I’m willing to cut them a lot of slack for the parital season that has been slapped togeher.
yikes
Re #18: Thanks for the link about Chi. Opera Theater. Could someone out there with more surviving little gray cells than I currently possess please clarify something: Here in NY, didn’t the old Clarion Concerts once perform Giasone at Avery Fisher, circa 1980 or thereabouts? I could swear I heard it then.
Why don’t we wait to hear who’s available to sing and perhaps look forward to discovering some exciting fresh talent instead of writing the whole thing off sight unseen and sound unheard?
On Parterre Box?!?! Buwahnahahahaha.
Nice to see that they’re not going to completely ignore stuff that was written after the death of Puccini.
Who’s the pinkerton going to be?
“As to casting, why don’t we wait to hear who’s available to sing and perhaps look forward to discovering some exciting fresh talent instead of writing the whole thing off sight unseen and sound unheard?”
Well put, Will. And if anybody has access to the freshest bright talent, it’s Steve Blier.
“Don Giovanni directed by David Christopher Alden”
What’s a David Christopher Alden?
Quanto: The “David” is supposed to be crossed out, because La Cieca misheard the tip and posted in haste. Christopher Alden will direct the Don G.