A conversation with Seattle
Verdi’s Nabucco opened last Saturday night at McCaw Hall, with the run continuing through August 22; it will be broadcast live next … Continue reading Seattle Opera’s Full-Throated ‘Nabucco’ Powers Past its Awkward Staging
This summer’s superb production by Seattle Opera is one nobody should miss. Porgy and Bess (through August 20 at McCaw Hall) is the American opera. This is about our country, a small group of our people, and despite it being set 70 years ago, the background is one we all recognize. Continue reading Superb Set of Voices Propels Seattle Opera’s Porgy & Bess
“What struck me very strongly is that it’s a well-made play,” says Chris Alexander, stage director for the upcoming Porgy and Bess for Seattle Opera (at McCaw Hall from July 30 to August 20; tickets $25-$241: 206-389-7676). Alexander saw the opera live for the first time in Dayton, Ohio, last year.
He has been working with theater all his adult life. “Coming from stage theater, it’s like a home game to direct Porgy. It’s remarkable how much of the original well-made play (by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward) is here,” he says. Continue reading Seattle Opera’s Porgy & Bess as a “Well-Made Play”