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Operabase to the rescue:
No North American performances this season - too bad! The Bueno Aires run is too soon and airfares to Argentina are high.
However, Norwegian Airlines has flights from Oakland to Stockholm for under $300 one way, and the cast there includes Swedes Katarina Dalayman and Peter Mattei. Supertitles in Swedish!
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I think "Meistersinger" is a very flawed opera on a musical level. (And Act 3 could easily lose about 45 minutes)
That's a little odd, SFO hasn't done Parsifal since 2000, when they staged the ghastly Lenhoff production. I was glad to hear Kurt Moll in person before he retired though.
NY Bookfile, I once saw a reduced-orchestra, cut version of Meistersinger that was maybe 90 minutes shorter than the original, and it was vastly more effective.
Henry, I loved that Parsifal! Moll was, indeed, awesome.
Whoa -- Stockholm production is by Christoph Loy, with Michael Weinius, winner of the 2013 (?) Wagner Competition in Seattle--I last heard him as Scarpia at Folkoperan, before his big change. And the Voice from Above is currently singing Maddalena at the Met.
I am so there...
Kungliga Operan is charming. You can probably still admire Birgit Nilsson's Brunhild helmut.
I didn't go to Tannhauser today after all (needed the sleep more than the opera...), but still thinking somewhat seriously about 10 days in Stockholm.
10 days in winter in Stockholm (a town I love) might be a bit long, but the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet is also worth a visit--a wonderful hall, though you need to pick casts carefully. TRAVIATA in February is a house cast, and I'm not fond of Tatjana Gurbaça as a director (based on a single BALLO). More interesting, perhaps, though I know nothing beyond the website description, is a new opera, ELYSIUM, by Rolf Wallin, premiering in March. David Poutney directs and Audrey Luna is the wife, which tells you something right there. http://operaen.no/en/Performances/elysium/
Folkoperan usually has a show during the winter-spring period, but there's nothing about their next production on their website, which is typical for them. (currently playing: TRAVIATA, set in a 21st c. brothel, looks R-17 if not X rated)
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