tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post6713178103148648016..comments2024-03-28T12:59:05.739-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: Upcoming in Dallas, Oh, and Also in San FranciscoLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-40067782605655333972008-01-25T09:06:00.000-08:002008-01-25T09:06:00.000-08:00Belated thanks for all of your comments. Steve, wh...Belated thanks for all of your comments. Steve, what did you like about DMW?<BR/><BR/>Gockley commissioned <I>Little Women</I> and it seems there is another Adamo opera coming to SFO in the future, based on some items I found on the internet and an email exchange with Adamo himself in August, 2006. That's fine with me; his <I>Lysistrata</I> is a terrific piece with great music.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-3423473331306238882008-01-15T19:52:00.000-08:002008-01-15T19:52:00.000-08:00Gockley has been loyal with his commissions: In ad...Gockley has been loyal with his commissions: In addition to bringing <I>Appomattox</I> with him from Houston to San Francisco, he commissioned a Heggie opera for Houston -- the not-well received <I>The End of the Affair.</I> I don't know whether he had anything to do with <I>Last Acts,</I> the new Heggie chamber opera HGO will be doing in February and March, but it seems safe to assume so, since it's a co-commission with San Francisco Opera and Cal Performances.<BR/><BR/>And Gockley tapped Wallace very early on for <I>Where's Dick?,</I> a bizarre comic-strip musical-theater piece directed by Richard Foreman for HGO, which featured Angelina Reaux as Baby Snowflake, a flesh-eating albino gorilla...<BR/><BR/>And perhaps I shouldn't admit it here, but I quite like <I>Dead Man Walking.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-67532513993897505062008-01-15T19:31:00.000-08:002008-01-15T19:31:00.000-08:00My friends and I called it Dead Opera Walking. :-...My friends and I called it <I>Dead Opera Walking</I>. :-) A horrible piece, I'd say, only made viable by the story itself and the performances. When he couldn't even write music for the execution scene but just let the heart monitor beep on, well, that was pathetic.<BR/><BR/>Shorter David Gockley: I'd rather give up a precious production slot to a mediocre American opera rather than to a proven, worthy European one.<BR/><BR/>Unless Dallas does a Schreker opera --fat chance!-- I'll never go there after they cancelled Marc Anthony Turnage's <I>The Silver Tassie</I> because it would upset their patrons as it's *gasp* anti-war. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the info, Lisa!Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.com