Alluring: An Evening of Opera

    I went to the Alluring: An Evening of Opera event at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Saturday evening. I found this event online through the center's Facebook page, and I thought it looked interesting enough. This was a concert, not so much an opera, with Tulsa Symphony that also had two opera singers there.They all played and sang bits and pieces of different operas through the whole thing such as Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen, Rigoletto, Paliacci, Cavalleria rusticana, La bohemia, Carousel, Susannah, and The Merry Window. The female opera singer is Sarah Coburn who is a soprano and the other is Stephen Powell who is a baritone. Apparently, they travel all over the country and the world to sing, so I am assuming they are not necessarily from here. I may be wrong. The guest conductor for the Tulsa Symphony is Daniel Hedge and it looks like he's a pretty accomplished conductor, having conducted other symphonies in other cities such as Oregon, Detroit, Seattle, Indianapolis, Colorado, San Diego, Columbus, and Phoenix. Amongst other things.

     Funny thing is that I accidentally got to theater super early and I didnt know it until after I got there. I knew beforehand that there was going to be a pre-concert lecture with the guest conductor and I had thought it was scheduled at 6:15 when it was actually scheduled at 6:30, and I had gotten there around 5:40. I was literally the first person there when I got into theater. There were not many people at all when I gotten into the building and the door to the Mezzanine section was actually unlocked, so I just helped myself in. I was there before the ushers were and when they saw me they were asking me how I got in there. Jesus. I didn't mean to do any of that.
     I definitely thought the female opera singer's dress looked very pretty. It is such a nice glossy green and flowy dress.