Washington State

Seattle Opera's "La Cenerentola" opens January 12th.

HERE is the preview in the ...

Seattle Opera opened "Fidelio" yesterday. HERE is the Seattle Times review.

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By sospiro (Annie), Opera Lively Media Consultant



The trip

As I arrived, Seattle was experiencing the worst snowfall for over 50 years and the only topic of conversation was the weather, so I felt right at home straightaway!

Seattle Opera website lists a good selection of hotels and I had chosen one from that list and it really couldn't have been better - five minutes walk from the opera house.

I had tickets for the matinee and for two evening performances, three pre-performance talks and planned to attend the Speight Jenkins Q&A sessions after each performance.



The snow rapidly disappeared and I was able to do some sightseeing, Seattle really is a beautiful city. I had always wanted to visit the FHCRC as this was where José Carreras had his life saving bone marrow transplant and it was through Carreras that I got into opera. I just walked in off the street clutching a small cash donation ...

Here is a link to a review for the recent Seattle Opera Turandot, courtesy of member Treemaker, who will send another review authored by ...

Courtesy of our member treemaker, here is a review authored by a friend of his (Norm Hollingshead, who is a very experienced and passionate opera scholar whose blog we endorse) of Seattle Opera's Madama Butterfly with Patricia Racette. The link is published here with the author's permission.

There is some controversy brewing in this blog about Ms. Racette's performance; it's an interesting read.

Operaplus review
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Courtesy of our member treemaker, here is a link to a newspaper article previewing the upcoming Seattle Opera production of Madama Butterfly:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...rmid=head_main ...