A conversation with Seattle
Zetlan is currently in Seattle singing Musetta in La Bohème (February 23 to March 10). Updated to be set the year it was written, 1896 (it’s usually set in the 1830s), the production features photography — in the staging, in the sets, and even on the show curtain, which will include a picture actually taken in Act II of the opera. Continue reading “Bohème” and Rhinemaidens in Harnesses – Oh My!
One of those self-confessed Wagner nuts, actor/writer/raconteur Stephen Fry, offers a guided tour of his obsession in Wagner and Me, a fascinating 2011 documentary opening at the Grand Illusion tonight and running through January 31. It’s a combination travelogue, biography, and love letter that reveals as much about its host/narrator as it does its controversial subject. Continue reading Stephen Fry Confronts the Warts-and-All Genius of Richard Wagner