Bohemians - The First Day
The first day of the first week on the tour! We successfully unloaded and assembled the portable La Bohème set in a gymnasium for two great performances for grades 3 through 8. After our first...
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Today POGO participated in our first teaching class sessions along with our 3rd Bohème for a school consisting of K-5 students. The students turned out to be a bit rowdy during the class teaching...
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POGO took a trip to an alternative high school named The Miller Education Center. These were some of the neatest teens and being at this school reminded me of how much I miss my work as a teen...
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As tour manager I get to hear (and remember) the great things kids say and the quick thinking the performers are required to do. I also get to see most things that happen behind and off the set. At...
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At the end of our Opera Improvs, sometimes we have the time for a Q and A session. This is always fun, because we get some really fun questions. My favorite though, is when we get a student who wants...
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We Sing Seattle-ese Kids say the darndest things. Ya gotta love 'em. The cutest and most humorous answer to any of our questions this season: Question: Does anyone know the language we just sang?...
View ArticlePhotos from the Road
Life on the road is exciting, rewarding, and challenging! We though we would share some of those moments with you in photos. Enjoy!read more
View ArticleBest treats in State FOUND!
During our travels we get to sample some of the local restaurants and coffee shops and what have you. This last Friday I think we found the best smoothie and Java shake cafe in the state. It's called...
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10 Greatest Things About the Portland Opera To Go Tour Best Clam Chowder Ship Inn Restaurant & Family Pub – Astoria, OR Best Hotel La Quinta - Ashland, OR Best Destructive Moment TIE: Backing the...
View ArticleThe perks of being on tour
The truly gratifying part of the tour is when we perform for an engaged and receptive school audience, and they pay attention to specific details. This is true especially after we've had a long run...
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I made a four year old cry. It was not my intention.
As an actor, it is rare to make the audience "feel" enough to cry. I forget that occasionally the audience can get so wrapped up in the moment that they believe in the reality of the world onstage. As...
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FROM THE TOUR: Cute Phrases from Kids
“You look like my 19 year old brother.”“Can you tell me what a moaning moose sounds like?”“My favorite was the pink and the green princesses.”We are heading out on our first road trip from Boring, OR...
View ArticleFROM THE TOUR: Halfway, Oregon and Snow
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Part 1 We started the day dark and early in Baker City. Most of us woke up somewhere around 5:30am or so in order to meet at 6:15 to depart for Pine Eagle...
View ArticleFROM THE TOUR: All I Need to Know about being on tour I learned from...
This is my first time being on tour and I mean really on tour, out of town for a week at a time on tour. I wasn’t sure I knew how to be on tour. After spending some time with many different...
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FROM THE TOUR: A New Perspective from POGO
Music affects each person in a different way. It has the ability to comfort, to enliven, to console, and to energize. There is new music being created every day, and we are constantly given the...
View ArticleFROM THE TOUR: Stories from the kids
On the road again….it has been a long time since I have been on the road with Portland Opera To Go, either as a performer or a stage manager, and this year, I find myself acting as both! What a...
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kurze pause
Apologies for the small number of postings this week, but when you’ve got a view like the one I’ve had since Monday, it’s kind of hard to think about writing. I will have something up later this...
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tristan und isolde – live from bayreuth (1976)
After one of my Twitter friends mentioned the Bulgarian tenor Spas Wenkoff on Friday, I rummaged through my iTunes playlists to see if I had any recordings of this relatively obscure singer. The only...
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wunderlich’s onegin
The talk on Twitter yesterday turned, as it often does, to Fritz Wunderlich, and the question of a complete Eugene Onegin recording came up. As far as I know, there’s only one: a live 1962 performance...
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if wishes were fishes…
I need a wealthy patron, someone who would be willing to put up a few bucks so that I could blog on a more regular basis. Just saying…
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