Arizona Opera, Ballet Arizona And The Phoenix Symphony Collaborate On "La Gioconda."
By Margaret Regan
THE SEAMSTRESSES for Arizona Opera were hard at work one
day last week, crafting glittering 17th-century Venetian costumes
for this weekend's
La GiocoRev2: ing machines, the soprano
of leading lady Janine Bogardus drifted in from the neighboring
practice space, where the bundled-up leads were deep into their
first week of chilly rehearsals.
At least some of the costumes under construction, though, like
the dainty dress with jeweled bodice pinned onto a slimmer-than-slim
mannequin, didn't have a chance of fitting around the ample bodies
of the singers on the other side of the partition. That's because