Date sent: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 07:55:04 EST
Subject: Re: Olympia interpretation?
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

In a San Francisco Opera production I saw a few seasons ago Tracy Dahl's
Olympia was rigid and mechanical when Hoffmann took the rose glasses off and
totally lifelike when the glasses were on. The lifelike moods were
brilliantly set off by the lighting and they coincided with the more lyrical
passages in the aria.

Zerbinetta