Helene Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 millamant gave us a heads up (Kirov in LA thread) on Goldstar Events, which offers discounted tickets to various arts events in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, and Chicago areas. I just received an email from them announcing discount tickets for the Tuesday, 1 November (8pm) and Sunday, 13 November (2pm) performances of Bellini's Norma at the San Francisco Opera. I saw the opening of the production yesterday, and it was fantastic. The singing was exceptional, especially Catherine Nagelstad's Norma and Irina Mishura's Adalgisa and all of the supporting roles. At this moment there are orchestra seats for $78.00/$83.50 and front balcony seats for $33.00/$38.50, including service charges Tuesday, Nov 1: http://www.goldstarevents.com/tr/nc/1788/1...45&mar=news1788 Sunday, Nov 13: http://www.goldstarevents.com/tr/nc/1788/1...45&mar=news1788 If you're on the fence, I would highly recommend this production, especially at these prices. If I could, I'd got back to SF to see it again. Edited to add: I thought when I bought tickets that Nancy Maultsby was scheduled to sing Adalgisa, which is one of the reasons I decided to stay for Norma instead of flying back Sunday afternoon. I just found a link to the San Francisco Classical Arts site which noted Maultsby's withdrawal from the production because of family reasons a week before yesterday's premiere. Unfortunately, the page listing the cast for the production premiere by the Canadian National Opera does not list Adalgisa. It would be truly amazing if Mishura stepped into a production with which she was not familiar, because she did a splendid job of it. http://www.sfcv.org/arts_revs/music_news_10_18_05.php Link to comment
dirac Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Mishura saved the production for me. Not happy with most other aspects of it, including Naglestad, I'm sorry to say. Link to comment
Helene Posted November 29, 2005 Author Share Posted November 29, 2005 It's too bad you didn't like Nagelstad. (I don't think the critics were too crazy about her either.) I thought she was one of the few Normas I've seen who was attentive to the text, a fine actress, and who sounded and acted older and more experienced than Adalgisa. She didn't have the voice of Caballe, for example, but for me it was a more satisfying performance overall, particularly since Caballe was off-pitch during Act I. Mishura is a lovely singer. She was a performance of Aida I saw a couple of years ago. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 She just doesn’t have the voice. There were several walkouts where I was sitting, with much muttering, but we stuck it out...... Link to comment
Helene Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 Wow, she got a great ovation after the performance I saw, and it didn't seem to come from a concentrated clique. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Different night, different audience, plainly. Link to comment
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