Woohoo!! Another review! What a great summer this has been!! :) I love San Francisco- and will miss it. So today I will run around the city trying to see the rest of the sights. Here is a review to check out:
Thus, the selection that probably fared better than any of the others involved the synthesis of a solid score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with an appropriately contemporary dramatic perspective in Conde’s staging. This was the duet “Ich gehe doch rate ich dir” from the second act of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, in which Blonde’s English blood comes to a full boil when Osmin tries to treat her as his slave. Peixin Chen’s bass voice was as hardy as it had been in his Basilio in the second cast of Barbiere, while Suzanne Rigden endowed Blonde with the same rebellious sass that had spiced her Rosina in the first cast. She then kept that character in high gear in her portrayal of Elvira at the end of the program
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