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| Washington Opera Production - 2001 |
| Photo: Ken Howard - A Zack Brown production is usually reason for excitement. His vision and creativity ranks him among the primary designers in the business. Review |
| Photo: Eric Mahoudeau A revival of the 1997 Zambello production of Turandot. |
| Photo: Monika Rittershaus- There were three main props: a monumental mobile phone, used as the Act 1 gong, and also for confirming the answers to the riddles; a giant toy bear serving as Turandot's capsule refuge; and a tiled-roof, one-room Japanese house built over a garage, belonging to Altoum, but taken over by the loveless couple at the end of the opera.
A large tourist map of Beijing, complete with coffee stains and scribbled telephone numbers served as a curtain |
| For research and entertainment -- anyone can Google and get this information. |
| The original James Robinson production was directed in Houston by Peter Rothstein who made good use of a young cast with well-honed stage skills. Anna Oliver's costuming was particularly flattering to the men. Anita Stewart's sets consisted mainly of scaffolding and bare platforms, but the inventive lighting by Nigel Levings and the projections by John Boesch helped to flesh out the stage picture. |
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| SF Opera Production - 1993 |
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| Through the idiomatic artistic lens of the renowned artist, David Hockney, here the set designer, the story unfolds in brilliant luminosity, morphing from one visual thrill to the next, underscoring Puccini’s music and reinforcing the composer’s musical thrust. The set design is simple. Extrapolations of basic shapes from Chinese cultural icons: a sword’s edge, a dragon’s back. Sharp and clean. Review/ SFCV |
| PUCCINI COMING TO SFOPERA 2006-2007 11/19/06-12/10/06 Manon Lescaut |
| vilaine fille: Turandot Puccini's Turandot is an opera to whose sinister charms I was long immune. I'm not sure what happened in recent years to make me love it./ Review-01 Nov 2005 |
| This site and all related sites are for entertainment and reserch and contains information that anyone can get by using a search engine, such as Google./ This page is somewhere within the many pages that are a collection of notes I keep on the arts I am interested in. The entry point to all my notes is SF ART World |
| Palm Beach Opera Slide Show |