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on such a night
With Portland Opera’s production of Le nozze di Figaro opening on Friday, I’ve been in constant Mozart mode for the past couple of weeks while I prep my pre-performance talks. During a recent YouTube scavenger hunt, I ran across these clips … Continue reading
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all insensitivity
Puccini is past, Ravel is on the docket now. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be reacquainting myself with L’Heure espagnole and L’Enfant et les Sortileges in anticipation of Portland Opera‘s upcoming production at the beginning of April. This is … Continue reading
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opera insights – turandot (part 1)
Here’s the first part of my recent pre-performance talk on Puccini’s Turandot for Portland Opera.
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Henry James, part 2
In today’s Oregonian, Laura Grimes shares some of the reactions she got to her piece last week on Henry James’ “The Ambassadors.” She also mentions Portland Opera’s upcoming production of Turn of the Screw and links to my original posting … Continue reading
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James on my mind
Portland Opera is presenting Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw in February, and so in preparation for my pre-performance talks, I’ll be refamiliarizing myself with a work I haven’t heard in a very long time and posting some of my … Continue reading
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