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The Flying Dutchman closes out the New Orleans Opera's season

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The Flying Dutchman closes out the New Orleans Opera's season

Times Picayune
March 19, 2010
Chris Waddington

One key to the Saints winning season was the team’s ability to find and recruit young and under-recognized talents. The New Orleans Opera Association has been doing much the same under artistic director Robert Lyall.

As a talent scout, Lyall keeps bringing amazing singers to the city. As a director, he matches them to the right roles. As a conductor, he makes sure they get stellar support from the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. read more »

NOO's Dutchman Flies

NOLA Defender
Hallie Gerard

At the start of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, we learn that the title character, a classic antihero, has blasphemed the heavens. Consequently, he must spend eternity as a refugee wandering stormy seas, save one visit ashore every seven years to search for true love. The opera’s plotline might serve as a metaphor for the work itself. On Saturday, this ghostship crashed ashore in all of it’s symbolic and symphonic glory at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre as the New Orleans Opera closed out their season. read more »

Opera enters the 21st century: Flying Dutchman production breaks new ground with visual technology

Neworleans.com

In a conventional opera review it is customary to focus on the singers, the orchestra and the stage direction. That’s the way it has been done since the earliest days of the performing art form and, for the most part, that’s the way it should be. Without those three key elements working in sync with one another, the whole production can easily fall apart. read more »