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It looks like the Washington National Opera is going to be absorbed by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. [Wall Street Journal]
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Not quite on another topic, isn’t the San Francisco Opera Ring scheduled for next summer the same one WNO started and didn’t have the funds to finish? I just got the flyer and am drooling over possibilities. Any opinions?
I meant to comment on those wonderful Zack Brown productions. Some of which were co-productions with NYCO waaaay back in the day. Shows that you CAN create sumptuous looking sets on a regional budget. My first exposure to Britten, Strauss was at WO. And yes, I was speaking about the Semele production that began my obsession with Baroque and counter-tenors. It’s sad that a once really swell regional house has suffered at the hands of P.D. and apparently a board of sychophants. I remember when he forced us to listen one zarzuela per year for his first few seasons. Geesh that was just gawd awful. It may have gone down better in L.A. which has a signifigantly larger Hispanic population, but the DC audiences soon tired of them after the novelty of the first one. He came on board after I moved NYC, but initially I would still go back down to DC for every production. I rarely get down to DC for opera unless it’s something or someone performing that I know I won’t see in NYC. What was his affect on the Young Artists Program? They should just cut their losses merge with the Kennedy Center and give him the old heave-ho post haste.
Jay – didn’t they trash a lot of the productions and bring in Mrs. D to do new productions? Talk about nepotism…I will say that the one thing that was a definite P.D. decision was to bring in Carreras in Sly. Of course the voice was gone by then, but my only exposure to him live was in that production.