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| Blonde (Rebecca Nelsen) rocks out in rehearsal. |
- The wonderful Blonde in this production is Rebecca Nelsen. (She's a new discovery for me but Smorgy interviewed her a few years ago. I need to catch up!)
- You can see a much higher quality video than the one on the Tube of Yoo (and some nifty rehearsal photos) at the Servus TV website.
- The production is fun and novel; the performances are pretty good considering the logistics, but the same singers would stand a better chance in an opera house.
- Standouts are the always-under-appreciated Javier Camerena as Belmonte and the above-mentioned Ms. Nelsen. Thomas Ebenstein as Pedrillo is a characterful, but somewhat underpowered (but engaging) character tenor.
- The acoustic of an airport is very similar to that of a train station (as in La Traviata in the Zurich Hauptbahnhof.)
- I really am going to review this in a day or so.
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| Belmonte and his helicopter. Wait...what? |
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| Rebecca Nelsen and Thomas Ebenstein |
Rehearsal photos are from http://oper.servustv.com/die-best-of-fotostrecke/
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