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The Art of Directing
What are the practical steps involved in directing a play or an opera? Here’s what the job looks like for me. When I begin to direct a play or an opera, I try to leave pre-conceptions and cultural expectations aside, even with a classic text. I stay away from: “This...
Opera San Jose readying all-new take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Even as Opera San Jose is preparing to open its season-ending production of Puccini’s “Tosca” on April 15, the company under general director Shawna Lucey has announced plans for the company’s 2023-24 season.
The Revenge of the Merry Wives
When Giuseppe Verdi was looking for source material for what would be his last opera, he made what might be considered an odd choice: a farcical, episodic play, written almost entirely in prose, about ordinary citizens in sixteenth-century England called The Merry...
A Production of “Le Nozze di Figaro” for Our Time – A Reflection
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is often hailed as the greatest comic opera (Opera Buffa) ever written. Certainly it stands at the very head of Mozart’s great triumvirate of operas set to libretti by the Italian (and later Italian-American) poet,...