website about the opera.<\/a><\/p>\nOpera Tampa Artistic Director Robin Stamper says don\u2019t expect to see what you saw in the Jack Nicholson film of the same name.<\/p>\n
“Well, the twins are there, and there’s no Jack Nicholson, and it’s based on the novel \u2014 not the movie,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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The Straz Center’s Opera Tampa. <\/p>\n
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“The Shining” opera composer Paul Moravec. <\/p>\n
And like the first opera the company performed this season, \u201cLove v. Death,\u201d there\u2019s a supernatural through line. And a lineup that is not the standard fare for opera companies.<\/p>\n
\u201c’The Turn of the Screw’\u2026 there are ghosts in that \u2014 it’s spooky, ‘The Shining,’ duh. And then ‘Magic Flute,’ well, it’s in the title. And the Queen of the Night is sort of an other-worldly character. It might be a bit of a stretch, but not necessarily. And then, of course, the ‘Scottish play’ opera, we’re not supposed to say the name of the piece in a theater, although I’m technically in my office, I’ll cheat and say ‘Macbeth.’ It has witches and ghosts and the whole bit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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The Straz Center’s Opera Tampa<\/p>\n
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Opera Tampa Artistic Director Robin Stamper<\/p>\n
Stamper said some people have commented on how dark this season is.<\/p>\n
But he points out how violent and murderous other older operas like \u201cAida,\u201d \u201cCarmen\u201d and \u201cTosca\u201d are.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I defy that notion, and I’m very happy about the season too, because there’s such a mix of works,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
And the works Opera Tampa is performing this season represent virtually every century, from the 18th up to the 21st century.<\/p>\n
Stamper said many of their operas are in English this season, or presented in a combination of languages.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Shining is in English. Magic Flute, what we’re doing, which is not uncommon, is we have the English dialogue, but they’re singing it in German. And people say, ‘That’s odd.’ Well, opera’s odd anyway. I mean, they’re singing opera while they’re acting. So, it’s not as weird as it seems. And of course, Macbeth is all in Italian,\u201d Stamper said.<\/p>\n
Stamper said all of the operas will have supertitles for the audience, so nothing is lost in translation.<\/p>\n
Opera Tampa performs \u201cThe Shining\u201d on Friday, Jan. 30 and Feb. 1.<\/p>\n
You can get more information about \u201cThe Shining\u201d and the rest of the Opera Tampa season at the Straz Center website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend, Opera Tampa is giving the Florida premiere of \u201cThe Shining,\u201d composed by Paul Moravec, with lyrics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-137460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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