Tucson Weekly: The Combo Deal (January 15 - January 21, 1998)
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...
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