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Article: Tuned In: Turn up the thermostat: Here comes 'Turandot"
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- Oakland Tribune
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- March 27, 2009
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Brrrrr, break out those bearskin coats, music lovers. The iciest
heroine in all of operadom is coming to kick off the 2009 season for
Walnut Creek-based Festival Opera.
Puccini's "Turandot," the haughty Chinese princess who cries "off
with their heads" when her suitors can't solve her ridiculous
riddles, strides the floorboards at the Lesher Center's Hofmann
Theatre for four performances in July. The soprano hurling all those
high C's into the charged atmosphere will be Othalie Graham, last
heard here three years ago in the title role of Puccini's "Tosca"
for the same company. But Canadian-born, Philadelphia-trained Graham
cut her operatic teeth on the "Turandot" role, singing it first for ...