2 posts tagged “pagliacci”

Canio

We went to our regular subscriber performance last night. This production was even more affecting from our subscriber seats - Main Floor Row P - we're quite close (by preference) to the stage. Many wonderful subtleties in the staging that I missed the first time around. But wow, the whole evening just packed a major emotional punch.

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It's been all Pagliacci, all the time for us: our neighborhood pizza place is Pagliacci.  And Pagliacci the pizza place couldn't resist doing a little cross-promotion with Seattle Opera's Pagliacci, thus this pizza box from our Friday night pizza:

Pizza

The 1977 Pavarotti/Scotto Boheme is available on DVD!

One of my opera regrets is never having seen Luciano Pavarotti. But yesterday, on the Met Radio broadcast we got to hear him "live" at the near-peak of his vocal abilities (1977) singing La Boheme. Pavarotti passed away just a few days before my Dad, so I barely noticed his passing at the time. Hearing him in his youth is a reminder of what an unbelievable artist he was.

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There was a chance I would be in Vegas through Saturday, so we weren't able to plan ahead to get tickets to an extra performance of Pagliacci. Based on everything we'd heard, this was a production we were going to want to see twice. Luckily, Drake was able to score a couple of tickets to the sold-out performance yesterday. We were "up in the Gods" but in McCaw Hall that really isn't too far up.

I'm not even sure what to say about this production. It may be the finest Seattle has done in recent memory in terms of emotional impact.