Krunoslav, I am absolutely thrilled to receive this remembrance of your parents. Whenever you reference them here, I am always fascinated. How wonderful to be raised by such great opera lovers and...
Yes! She also starred in the Portland Opera production as well. Happy Holidays!
It was brilliant and evocative. Cheers!
Yes, that was me in Zankel. It was a pleasure to chat with two such experienced opera lovers.
The five Jews- caricatured by Wilde as well as Strauss- could be shown eating Chinese food for Xmas, a NYC tradition of long standing.
Yes, it was the same POA production they used for the Charleston festival.
Was that the one with Marvelle Cariaga? I think I remember seeing it on PBS (as you stated).
Actually, that kinda works, but Jesus was an adult during the time of the opera. Salome would work well with a Christmas theme. She could unwrap the head under a big tree.
Not quite as good an idea as a Christmas Elektra, but I remember reading that one of the things that was proposed (and, if I am not mistaken, it was done) to convince the Imperial authorities in...
that would work. and the maids greet him with palms. oh wait ... wrong holiday
I also have a bit of history with the Opera Ensemble of New York...we should talk.
Couldn’t Orest enter Mycanae on a donkey?
My parents both used that phrase and also ‘Papers, papers!” My dad’s parents had been immigrants from violent lands and my mother, who worked with foundations that helped stateless immigrants after...
What a wonderful story! Thank you for posting. You know, when my mother hears something she doesn't like on the news she likes to say: "To this we've come!" in homage to this aria. Happy holidays...
I am suffering from a horrible cold I had been probably been fighting off most of the semester. In my congested lassitude, I was thinking of which operas contain Christmas elements, such as those...
When I worked as a costume designer in the 1980s, I worked for a small company called The Opera Ensemble which performed at the Lily Blake school on 81st St. and Madison Avenue. They did The Consul...
wonderful review, Nigel. I love Christie.
And please note that Carey Wong's set designs for Gian Carlo Menotti's Spoleto U.S.A. production of THE CONSUL (presented during the first American Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina)...
Maybe the huge layer cake and the huge bouquet he received for his birthday put him in a good mood. [url= https://postimg.cc/T5yY5ZWr ][img]
Oh how interesting. 1983. Absolutely, Portland Opera still had many superb productions then. A young Marcello Giordani made his American debut as Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles in Portland in 1988...
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