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Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts
Saturday, September 27, 2025

Department of Speculation

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Post, 2011 SFO Ring San Francisco Opera hasn't announced when they're doing the Ring  next, though since it's known that Eun Sun...
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Thursday, December 05, 2019

Children in Danger: Fantasy Opera Season

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Seeing certain operas this year gave me an idea: Britten, Turn of the Screw Humperdinck, Hansel und Gretel Janacek, Jenufa Wagner, Loh...
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Friday, September 08, 2017

....And This is Why SFO (or some other company) Needs to Put On a Trojan Wars Season

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Renée Falconetti as Joan of Arc in Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan Odyssey Opera in Boston has a doozy of a season coming up:...
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Sunday, August 07, 2016

Gay, Gay, Gay

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You knew this was coming, right? Harvey Milk , Wallace Fellow Travelers , Spears Patience and Sarah , Kimper Lulu , Berg Death in Veni...
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Friday, August 05, 2016

Religion Will Get You Into Trouble

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Today's Twitter activity brought a request for more themed opera seasons, so here's the first that occurred to me. Khovanshch...
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Friday, June 24, 2016

Shakespeare at the Opera

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A fantasy opera entry; a long, long season of operas based on Shakespeare, including Doppelgangers and also a....what the heck would tho...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Fantasy Opera Update

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Three years ago, I wrote a series of postings detailing the operas I would stage if I had all the money in the world. It was, of course, a ...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Fantasy Opera, Season 6

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Unbelievably, I omitted Respighi from the first five seasons. Respigh, La Fiamma Delius, Koanga RVW, Hugh the Drover Peri, Dafne Of...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Fantasy Opera, Season 5

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Still daydreaming. Barber, Vanessa Britten, Gloriana Delius, A Village Romeo and Juliet Argento, Postcards from Morroco Weisgall, Esthe...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Fantasy Opera, Season 4

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You didn't think I was done, did you?? Salinen, Kullervo . I have a recording of this; I've heard some of his music live and on rec...
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Sunday, February 06, 2011

Fantasy Opera Elsewhere

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Around the blogosphere: Alex Ross found a rather odd cartoon/music pairing on YouTube that's relevant.  Mark Berry at Boulezian has a...
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Friday, February 04, 2011

Fantasy Opera, Season 3

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Assuming I'm a billionaire, of course. Chin, Alice in Wonderland Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina Wagner, Rienzi Rossini, Guillaume Tell ...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Fantasy Opera, Season 2

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Why not? Nielsen, Maskerade Verdi, Il Corsaro Carter, What's Next? Bellini, La Sonnambula Sessions, Montezuma Saariaho, L'Amo...
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If I Were a Rich Geek

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Okay, I'm going to stop complaining - well, mostly - about opera seasons that don't match my admittedly peculiar, out-of-the-mainstr...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

The Trojan Wars

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Over the last decade, I've toyed off and on with the idea of a themed opera season. I've seen some half-hearted attempts at this; fo...
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