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...years Del Monaco has worked closely with American set and costume designer Michael Scott, both in Bonn, where Del Monaco is artistic director, and on the international circuit. Boccanegra is a triumph of that partnership. The first act's set, again a house and a garden, is closely modeled on Petrarch's villa outside Padua, a mellow, roseate brick with a graceful staircase. To gaze at it is to be transported to the vivid politics of 14th century Genoa...
...were engulfed by the rampaging rivers, barely more than a year after the Christmas 1993 floods. From Bavaria to the Dutch border, the washouts brought normal riverside life almost to a standstill and kept the Bundeswehr busy deploying rescue teams in rubber dinghies. Waters lapped at the doors of Bonn's new parliament building, and smaller sections of Frankfurt were also overrun. Shipping was suspended entirely along the lower reaches of the Rhine, the world's busiest inland waterway. In Koblenz the river rose to 9.27 m and surrounded the newly restored bronze statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The Emperor...
...years Del Monaco has worked closely with American set and costume designer Michael Scott, both in Bonn, where Del Monaco is artistic director, and on the international circuit. Boccanegra is a triumph of that partnership. The first act's set, again a house and a garden, is closely modeled on Petrarch's villa outside Padua, a mellow, roseate brick with a graceful staircase. To gaze at it is to be transported to the vivid politics of 14th century Genoa...
...country and the opera house are often decisive when he chooses his approach. "I am a different director in Europe from America," he says. Especially in Germany, land of state subsidies and a public that may have seen 50 versions of Figaro, he may go the experimental route. In Bonn in April, for instance, he will produce a Manon Lescaut inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. In the U.S., where opera must pay for itself, companies can rarely afford productions that may be one-year sensations. When Met general manager Joseph Volpe ordered up Butterfly, he wanted a show...
Europe: James O. Jackson London: Barry Hillenbrand Paris: Thomas Sancton Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: Bruce van Voorst Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly Rome: Greg Burke Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Hong Kong: William Dowell Southeast Asia: Frank Gibney Jr. Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...