by Robert Boyd | Jan 15, 2022 | 2017 Season, Don Quixote, News
Click here to read Charlise Tiee’s complete review. Vladimir Nabokov famously said that Miguel Cervantes’ Don Quixote is “a veritable encyclopedia of cruelty.” But cruelty is banished from Island City Opera‘s current production of Jules Massenet’s last work, Don...
by Robert Boyd | Jan 15, 2022 | 2017 Season, Don Quixote
Click here to read Sam Hurwitt’s complete review at The San Jose Mercury News. There’s something about the character Don Quixote that remains deeply resonant more than 400 years after Miguel de Cervantes’ seminal 1605 novel that introduced the deluded old man...
by Robert Boyd | Feb 28, 2017 | 2017 Season, Behind Curtain
[vc_row][vc_column][ultimate_heading main_heading=”Chaliapin Favorite Don Quixote in Alameda” spacer=”line_with_icon” line_height=”1″ icon=”Defaults-star” icon_size=”32″]by Janos Gereben from San Francisco...
by Robert Boyd | Feb 24, 2017 | 2017 Season
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by Robert Boyd | Jan 14, 2017 | 2017 Season, Don Quixote
I discovered Massenet’s Don Quichotte in my early teens listening to the American bass Samuel Ramey sing both Quichotte and Sancho the entire fifth act of the opera. That was a revelatory experience which has followed me through my life, culminating in this...
by Robert Boyd | Jan 6, 2017 | 2017 Season, Behind Curtain
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