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Tuned out. (Coda).
My father is a wonderful man, but he's not too big on music appreciation. He would take Dinah Shore's recording of "Buttons and Bows" over Don Giovanni any day, and he once joked that he always drove as fast as possible past the Texaco gas stations just because Texaco sponsored the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday-afternoon broadcasts.
In May, I informed him that he no longer had to give the stations a wide berth: OPERA NEWS had just learned that Texaco (in recent years, ChevronTexaco) had announced that its funding of the broadcasts--a philanthropic tradition stretching back to 1940--would end with the conclusion of the 2003-04 season. That spells finis to the ...
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...Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, Jacob Lawrence and...Corporate Leadership in the Arts, Frank Shrontz, chairman...Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Opera and the United Arts Council of Puget Sound...wonder, expressed through art and science, does...
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...difficulties many American arts organizations have...caught up with Seattle Opera. Dutch bass...the title role in Seattle Opera's production...11 at Mercer Arts Arena. The problem...relations manager for Seattle Opera, stemmed from...
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...first time in more than a decade, Seattle Opera will not produce an opera in the...But in this venue (Mercer Arts Arena), it seemed wise to forgo...sets are from Cincinnati Opera. Seattle Opera is reviving its production of...
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Seattle Opera is in the last stages of working out...deal, which would begin Aug. 4 when Seattle Opera inaugurates its new ``Ring'' cycle...company would provide clothes to support Seattle Opera's annual operations and a retail...
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...R.M. CAMPBELL P-I music critic Seattle Opera's 2007-08 season, announced today...Bellini's "I puritani" in May. Seattle Opera's production of "Flying Dutchman...from Montreal Opera and costumes by Seattle Opera. Performances are Jan. 12-26...
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...R.M. CAMPBELL P-I music critic Seattle Opera kicks off its 2005-06 season on a...Heather McDonald. The conductor for Seattle Opera's production is Yves Abel and the...absence of six years, Mozart returns to Seattle Opera in the form of his comedy "Cosi fan...
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...well-sung or well-staged. Not Seattle Opera, which premiered its third production...Speight Jenkins, the general director of Seattle Opera who has presided over the past two...cast with second-rate singers. At Seattle Opera, there was luxury, with Luretta Bybee...