You might have noticed that its been a while since I’ve posted an episode~ well, after a really hectic year of almost nonstop travel, I took some time away from the Opera world to reconnect with some family, spend some time with my lady, and drink a few cocktails on a beach in Cancun
Now, I am back on the road….
…and to make it up to those of you who feel like they’ve been cheated of their weekly Texapollination, I am going to publish a couple of episodes a week for the next few weeks or so~ so you can look forward to more Texapollination than you can handle. Once I get caught up with guests here in Des Moines, I’ll return to the old weekly publishing schedule.
While I was taking it easy at home in Fort Worth, I was able to sit down with some of the people that are making this year at the Fort Worth Opera Festival one to remember. Director, David Gately, at FWOP regular, and someone with whom I had the privilege to working in Connecticut as Dandini in their production of La Cenerentola, is back this summer directing FWOP’s Giulio Cesare in what is sure to be a big hit… Now, space was kind of a premium at the festival this year, and we ended up recording in one of the rehearsal spaces during strike, so, you are going to get some real opera ‘atmosphere’ in this episode provided by the staff of the Amon Carter ….
So, grab a drink, sit back, and enjoy episode 16 of the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow
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Speak into the mic
Gately loses his Handelian cherry
Before Night Falls, DMW, those were EASY compared to this show
We brought the funny
Fort Worth Opera Chorus can’t jump
Coach Mayes and Coach Carico
I’ve used a basketball as a decoration, does that count?
I had a whole chorus who threw like girls
When I played basketball it was on the C team
The idea of running around for four periods is the closest thing to hell that I can imagine
David Gately, not too many boards
You know what, I think I’ll think I’ll do musicals
Los Angeles forces you to work out
Black is so forgiving
I’m not in Shirt Off Shape
P90X~ Public Performance Art
I know the Music for Traviata.. but I don’t really know all the words
Yeah, I can’t do this, I’m canceling.
She had a huge success and everybody else looked like crap
The politics of bowing
I wish people cared enough to boo
I think we need more operas with strippers
Burlesque vs Stripping… yeah, they’re totally different
Just don’t give a shit
David Gately~ Speed Director
Catering your approach to each individual player
Directahunk~ There is a vacuum
Oberlin appears again
I didn’t choose opera, it chose me
David also excels ON the stage
“What the fuck are you doing here?”
What the Fuck Moments
This is a JOB?!?!!
Afraid to say no
Don’t skip vacations
Urban Vacations
Reconnecting with Nature
We have air-conditioning…..
…but no electricity
I dove right in the middle of a Jelly Fish
Galveston is like swimming in a cappuccino
Directors are de facto educators
“I think I cried every day my first year at Brevard”
Driving up standards via summer programs
Dean Anthony’s incredible growth as a director
The kids like Dean better
Dodging the Flying Chihuahuas
Big doins at Brevard
If you fall on your face, just fall hard enough that you knock yourself out.
I never wanted to do Carmen again
Carmen is a director’s challenge
your production of Carmen will never be as good as the one in their head
Mark Adamo is like Christ, he is wherever 2 or 3 are gathered in his name
