Pagliacci

The Lego recreation below echoes (palely) my memory of Placido Domingo singing Pagliacci at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles in the 1990s. He sang in front of his caravan, dressed as a clown, with a heartbreaking aria of pain and betrayal.



You can read about the opera here.

You can listen to the Friday night broadcast here.

Martha

This was one of the operas broadcast on April 2, 2010. You can listen to the recording here. You can read about the opera here. Below is my lego rendition of Martha and Julia complaining about their work on the farm, as the brothers Plunkett and Lyonel look on. I was glad to be able to use my lego cattle in an opera.

Macbeth

Macbeth, yet another Shakespearean play turned into an opera, was played on March 5, 2010. You can listen to the opera broadcast here, and read about the opera here.

This is my rendition of Act 2, when Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo at the dinner table. Macbeth is in the background and Banquo is second from the right.

Otello

I legoed the final act of Otello last year. So when we heard the opera again, I legoed something from the beginning: the soldiers returning home, triumphant, with Otello.















You can read more about this opera here.

You can listen to the recorded broadcast here.

The Consul

The Consul is an opera set in an unspecified European country in 1950. I enjoyed creating a Communist apartment from the 50s so much that I am going to give you three views of it. This is my depiction of Act 1, Scene 1, where John is hiding from the police as his wife and mother try to cover for him.

The Orchestra view:


The view for those in the balcony:


And the view for the people watching the HD broadcast:

Puccini's La Boheme

This is the better known La Boheme by Puccini (there was a lesser known opera with the same name legoed by me in August). You can read about the opera here.

Here is the link to the Christmas Day broadcast.

The above scene shows Act 2, where our young Bohemians visit the Latin Quarter and see all the street vendors, including Parpignol with his toys.

The Damnation of Faust

You can read about this opera here.

The podcast of this broadcast is here.

Below is a bit where Mephistopheles shows Faust a pub scene.