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Review: San Francisco Opera's 'Show Boat' sizzles – The Mercury News
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Zambello, conductor John DeMain and David Gockley, the company's general director, have argued that “Show Boat” — merging elements of Broadway, operetta and opera — belongs in the opera house. Kern composed his soaring numbers for trained operatic voices. Robert Russell Bennett's original ...
Show Boat, theatre review: Don't miss this brilliant boat of musical ...
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It's always a pleasure to welcome a classy production of a classic musical to the West End and director Daniel Evans has constructed just that in this triumphant transfer from the Sheffield Crucible. From the musically stirring, verbally unsettling opening lines of Ol' Man River that begin the show — “Coloured ...
Why musical Show Boat stays afloat - BBC News
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Musical Show Boat, with it themes of racial segregation and justice, is making a timely return to the London stage but, as the director and cast explain, the production's relevance has never really gone away.
"Show Boat" - Jerome Kern's Masterpiece at San Francisco Opera ...
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San Francisco Opera opens its summer season with a spectacular production of Jerome Kern's SHOW BOAT. It's an opera — where the ideal performer with the optimal voice is a capital match for the intentions of the composer and his lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein II. Given that Gershwin's Porgy and ...
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