Tag "Wagner"
From the Desk of Artistic Director Jonathan Pell
Last night I attended a terrific concert with Paul Phillips conducting the SMU Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Wagner’s RING, featuring highlights from Act I of DIE WALKUERE with voice faculty members Virginia Dupuy and Clifton Forbis. This was Virginia’s first foray into Wagner repertoire and a departure into dramatic soprano territory from her usual [...]
From the desk of General Director Keith Cerny
Richard Wagner would be delighted to know that more than 125 years after his death, his signature Festspielhaus in Bayreuth still plays to sold-out audiences, with 10-year waiting lists to buy tickets. Thanks to the generosity of the Dallas Wagner Society, its President Roger Carroll, and its Treasurer Greg McConeghy, I was privileged to attend all five [...]
Jonathan Pell, Summer of Opera, Part 21
I had lunch yesterday with Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet, who returns to Dallas in February as “Isolde” in our production of TRISTAN. She has just returned home to Santa Fe for a couple of weeks following an engagement in Barcelona, and is heading back to Europe on Sunday. She is looking forward to reuniting with Clifton Forbis, [...]
Jonathan Pell, Summer of Opera, Part 5
I arrived in Lyon yesterday afternoon from Dallas (via Madrid, which, by the way, has a wonderful airport in which to have a layover) and got to my hotel at 5:00, barely giving me enough time to shower and change to make a 6:30 curtain for a highly acclaimed new production of Wagner’s TRISTAN UND [...]
Jonathan Pell, Summer of Opera, Part 4
Yesterday’s performance very nearly was GOETTERDAEMMERUNG for tenor Ian Storey, who was singing the punishing role of Siegfried. Near the end of the second act he was obviously having vocal trouble, and barely managed to finish the act. David Gockley, the San Francisco Opera’s general director, came out in front of the curtain before the [...]
Jonathan Pell, Summer of Opera, Part 3
June 18 Lunch yesterday with composer Jake Heggie to discuss a possible future project. I will see him again in August in Adelaide for the Australian premiere of MOBY-DICK. Last night was SIEGFRIED, the third installment of Francesca Zambello’s extraordinary production of Wagner’s RING here in San Francisco. This is perhaps the most difficult of [...]
Jonathan Pell, Summer of Opera, Part 2
Only four Adler singers sang for me today (I guess the RING has “wrung” them out)—all were fine, but only one really stood out. It is the end of their season, and I am sure they are exhausted. The WALKUERE tonight was brilliantly directed and some of the singing was thrilling. Francesca Zambello’s production [...]
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Climb Every Opera
The word that the Dallas Opera has commissioned British composer Joby Talbot and American librettist Gene Scheer to tackle the world’s highest peak, metaphorically speaking, is eliciting a variety of reactions. “The Dallas Observer” writes that the still-to-be-created opera EVEREST, slated for production in February of 2015, is our “most adventurous commission to...Rollin’ Down the River
New at “Theater Jones”: the latest edition of Keith Cerny’s “Off the Cuff.” The Dallas Opera General Director and CEO takes this opportunity to explore why the placement of pieces in musical time matters. Read it right here. (Photo of Ganges River delta courtesy of loc.gov) Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Director Media and PRTHE DALLAS OPERA PRESENTS THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2012...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 7, 2012 Contact: Suzanne Calvin (214.443.1014/suzanne.calvin@dallasopera.org) Or Megan Meister (214.443.1071/megan.meister@dallasopera.org) THE DALLAS OPERA PRESENTS THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2012 “MARIA CALLAS DEBUT ARTIST OF THE...Opera News
