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British opera singer
- baritone
- United Kingdom
- opera singer, musician
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2022-10-08 01:59:00
Three Strikes and You're Out, Gene.
Gordon Bitner as Eugene OneginPhoto by Corey Weaver, courtesy of San Francisco OperaI've now seen three different productions, with three different casts and conductors, of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and three times I have walked out scratching my head. The opera is popular, beloved, widely performed inside and outside Russia, and yet it continues to leave me cold. I certainly understand it much better now than I did when I was younger: the typical infatuation of a teenager with a sophisticated older man, his turning her down (wisely, but badly), his years-later love for her, her maturity and desire to stay in her stable marriage though she still loves Onegin. There just won't be a "happy ending" here, not any more than in Tosca. And the music, really, is masterly, beautiful, well-put-together, autumnal. Tchaikovsky knew what he was doing.Friends clued me in to why I haven't been wowed by the opera: a series […]
2021-03-05 22:53:14
Peter Grimes
Starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. Production by John Doyle. From March 15, 2008.
2020-11-13 22:38:38
Peter Grimes
Starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Donald Runnicles. From March 15, 2008.
2020-09-02 13:04:00
Met Streaming This Week
Lincoln Center Fountain Photo by me It's 20th c. week at the Metropolitan Opera. It's not too late for you to see these HD broadcasts free (apologies for missing Monday's Elektra, which I saw live and which was terrific): Tuesday, September 1: Peter Grimes (Britten); Anthony Dean Griffey in a shattering performance of the title role; Patricia Racette in beautiful voice as Ellen Orford; Anthony Michaels-Moore as Balstrode. (Michaels-Moore is excellent here, which made me want to revisit what seemed not-great appearances in SF in Italian roles). Donald Runnicles conducts. Wednesday, September 2: Nixon in China (Adams); James Maddalena, who created the title role; Russell Braun; Katherine Kim; Robert Brubaker; Janis Kelly; Richard Paul Fink. JCA conducts. Production by Peter Sellars recreating the 1987 original. Thursday, September 3: Lulu (Berg); Marlis Petersen, Susan Graham, Daniel Brenna, Paul Groves, Johan Reuter, and Franz Grundheber, conducted by Lothar Koenigs. Friday, September 4 & Saturday, September 5: […]
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