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The Minnesota
Opera
The Best of the 2000-2001 Season
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Rather than present a full photographic record of each opera, I selected from that season's photos to create a "Best of" collection. Of the five productions of the 2000-2001 season, I photographed three: Kurt Weill's Street Scene, Gioacchino Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and the double bill of Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci / Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Here are the best photographs from those productions:
(Click on an image to see the full-sized image.)
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The Street Scene set lit for night (this photo was taken from the rear of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts's orchestra section; the slight slope of the stage upward to the left was really there). |
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Rose about to leave the New York neighborhood after her father has murdered her mother. |
Gioacchino Rossini, The Barber of Seville
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Rosina leaning over her balcony, waving to Lindoro (Count Almaviva). |
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Don Basilio & Dr. Bartolo in animated discussion. |
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The ensemble (Berta, Don Basilio, Rosina, Dr. Bartolo, Count Almaviva [Lindoro], and Figaro) in friendly consultation. |
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Members of the civil guard. |
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Rosina and Count Almaviva during "music lessons." |
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci
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Chorus members; children's first communion, on their way to church. |
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Tonio taunting Nedda. |
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Canio, at the end of Part I, preparing for the troupe's performance in Part II. |
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Canio (Pagliaccio) kills Silvio after slaying Nedda. |
Although technically a vocal composition and not an opera, The Minnesota Opera presented Carmina Burana as a vocal and dance ensemble immediately following Pagliacci. Soloists in Carmina Burana were the doomed lovers in Pagliacci, Nedda and Silvio. In addition (and prominently featured in these photos), the Body Vox dance company of Portland, OR, had choreographed and danced many of Carmina Burana's individual songs.
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