by Paige Sweetin | Apr 19, 2023 | Blog
Join Opera San José General Director and CEO Shawna Lucey as she sits down to talk all things opera directing with Opera San José Resident Director, and director of Tosca, Tara Branham. You’ll get to hear from two of operas leading directors about the...
by Paige Sweetin | Apr 15, 2023 | Blog
What are the practical steps involved in directing a play or an opera? Here’s what the job looks like for me. When I begin to direct a play or an opera, I try to leave pre-conceptions and cultural expectations aside, even with a classic text. I stay away from: “This...
by Paige Sweetin | Feb 1, 2023 | Blog
When Giuseppe Verdi was looking for source material for what would be his last opera, he made what might be considered an odd choice: a farcical, episodic play, written almost entirely in prose, about ordinary citizens in sixteenth-century England called The Merry...
by Paige Sweetin | Sep 1, 2022 | Blog
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is often hailed as the greatest comic opera (Opera Buffa) ever written. Certainly it stands at the very head of Mozart’s great triumvirate of operas set to libretti by the Italian (and later Italian-American) poet,...
