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Arizona Opera Company Director Glynn Ross Is Set To Retire After A Long And Illustrious Career.
By Emil Franzi
THIS YEAR, WHEN Glynn Ross retires as general director
of the Arizona Opera Company, the community and the state will
lose the service of a man who has become an institution. Ross came here in 1983 after 20 years of brilliant, if sometimes
controversial, management of the Seattle Opera Company, where
he staged the first outdoor production of Wagner s
Ring
cycle in North America. When Ross arrived in Tucson, opera here was a struggling operation.
There were some fine people trying hard, but it was a badly managed
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