| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 26-Jan-2013 San Diego Civic Theatre | San Diego Opera's season opening Daughter of the Regiment is a crowd-pleaser |
 Chicks dig the high notes. The enduring popularity of Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment seems to indicate as much. The plot is silly (even by opera’s standards) and much of the music is not as memorable as some of Donizetti’s more popular works. Yet even without the notorious Ah! mes amis and its nine high C’s, the charming work can be a crowd-pleaser as evidenced by San Diego Opera’s season opening performance Saturday evening.
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| 11-Jul-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Laurent Pelly's story book Cendrillon |
 PIERARD AS NOEMIE, RUUTEL AS DOROTHEE, PODLES AS MADAME DE LA HALTIERE, (FRONT) DIDONATO AS CENDRILLON (C) COOPER 2011.jpg) I once heard a lecture by Gérard Mortier, then head of the Paris Opera, contrasting the twin operatic traditions starting from Monteverdi's serious and affecting dramma per musica and the lavish court entertainments of Lully. A couple of centuries on, there's no need to ask the side of the fence on which Massenet's Cendrillon falls.Read full review... | |
