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[johnslat]

Dear Henry_Cowell,
Well, there are two "old stand-bys": Verdi's Falstaff and Rossini's "The Marriage of Figaro.
Then there are Britten's "Billy Budd", Handel's "Radamisto", and the obligational "new work": Adriana Mater" by Kaija Saariaho.

http://www.santafeopera.org/tickets/index.aspx

Here are some reviews:


http://www.sfreporter.com/cms/story/detail/hey_there_sailor/3761/

http://www.abqjournal.com/abqnews/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=7762

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFDA1F3FF935A3575BC0A961948260

Regards,
John

[Henry_Cowell]

Thanks, john.

A Handel opera is now also obligatory with most opera companies. There are so many of those scores!

[johnslat]

Dear Henry_Cowell,
Well, Santa Fe didn't have a Handel last year:

The 2007 season will feature performances of five operas
Puccini's La boh�me
Mozart's Cosi fan tutte
Stauss's Daphne
Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul
Rameau's The Plat�e

nor in 2006


Bizet�s Carmen - June 30, July 5, 14; August 1, 7, 14, 19, 23, 26

Mozart�s The Magic Flute - July 1, 7, 12, 21, 31; August 5, 8, 15, 22, 25

Massenet�s Cinderella - July 15, 19, 28; August 3, 9, 18, 21, 24

Strauss� Salome - July 22, 26; August 4, 10, 16

Ad�s� The Tempest (American premiere) - July 29; August 2, 11, 17

nor in 2005

Turandot
Year:
2005
Composer:
Giacomo Puccini
Barber of Seville
Year:
2005
Composer:
Gioachino Rossini
Lucio Silla
Year:
2005
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Peter Grimes
Year:
2005
Composer:
Benjamin Britten
Ainadamar
Year:
2005
Composer:
Osvoldo Golijov

The last time was 2004


Agrippina
Year:
2004
Composer:
George Frideric Handel

So maybe they just can't handle too much Handel.

Regards,
John

[Henry_Cowell]

They did a Rameau -- which is even better! I bet it included ballet numbers, as the French did back then.

[bad cowboy]

Interesting thread. Thanks for the educational entertainment.

I could use some help from the original poster for my own semantic understanding of the sentence. What is/was meant by lives? Personal, biological, professional, spiritual, secret, etc.

After that, we can discuss what it is exactly that the lives are closer to. To one another? To ending? To reincarnating?

Or maybe we can talk about what is being compared. (Closer than before? Closer than the lives of my pet turkey and the neighbor's goat? Closer than the existing world record of proximity.)

How far can we really go without contextual clues?

Seriously though.....Closer together (than before) {as in close together/far apart} is prescriptively correct, in my opinion. Closer and closer together belongs in a poem, an informal letter, a speech or conversation, or a work of literature. These square pegs will never pass through the round holes of prescriptive grammar. Basically, this thread is a fallacy. Mixing prescriptive and descriptive grammar, much like mixing alcohol, can cause your head to spin. Be nice. It's all English.

[Stephen Jones]