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News From Tulsa Opera February 18, 2009
In This issue

:: American Master: Maurice Sendak
:: Meet "Hansel" & "Gretel"

Great Opening Night Tickets Are Still Available. Buy Yours Today!

Hansel & Gretel - the magical, must-see production for people of all ages - opens this Saturday evening, Feb. 21, with another evening performance Friday, Feb. 27 and a Sunday matinee, Mar. 1.

Great seats are still available. But they're going fast.Don't miss a single note! Buy your tickets today!

Tickets start at just $20. Be sure to ask about our Special Family Package: four super seats, just $99 (while Family Package
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Tickets: 918-587-4811.

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American Master: Maurice Sendak

Creator of our Spectacular Hansel & Gretel Sets
Best known for his wildly popular children's
classic, Where The Wild Things Are,
Maurice
Sendak has spent half a century bringing
people of all ages into fantastic worlds of
imagination.



In the late 1970s, Sendak began
producing and
designing stage performances, using
many of
the same techniques that are the hallmarks
of
his children's books.



He has put on a number of operas,
including
Mozart's The Magic Flute and
Prokofiev's Love
for Three Oranges.


In 1979, he turned
Where
The Wild Things Are into a popular
opera, and
four years later designed a winning
production of Tchaikovsky's ballet, The
Nutcracker.


His "living sets" for Hansel &
Gretel premiered in Los Angeles in
1997.

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Meet "Hansel" & "Gretel"

Tulsa World Profiles Gaissert & McKay

Blythe Gaissert, debuting with Tulsa Opera as
Hansel in our production of Hansel &
Gretel, says she's looking forward to
being a boy.

"I've had too many experiences where someone
puts this wig on me and wraps me in this
bizarre gown," the mezzo-soprano explained in
a profile by James D. Watts, Jr. in the
Sunday World, Feb. 15.

"When you're playing Hansel, none of that
matters."

In Watts' twin profile of Gaissert's
co-star, soprano Maureen McKay - also making
her Tulsa Opera debut - our "Gretel"
confesses to a bit of a language problem:

'I've sung this role one other time, and
it was sung in German. I almost have to stop
and think to remember to sing in English!"

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