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2023-07-02 20:25:00
Santa Fe Opera Cast Changes
[…] the talented cast. The creative team is completed with Brendan Gonzales Boston in his company debut as Associate Scenic Designer. Pelléas et Mélisande Cast and Creative Team UpdatesStepping in for originally scheduled Ain Anger, bass Raymond Aceto takes on the role of Arkel. Former Apprentice singer Zachary Nelson joins the cast as Golaud replacing Gihoon Kim and Kai Edgar continues his work with the company, singing the role of Yniold. Ben Brady sings the Physician (through August 9) and Arkel (August 18) while three other Apprentice singers make company debuts: Emma Rose Sorenson (Geneviève August 18); Brandon Bell (the Shepherd); and Sam Dhobhany (Physician August 18). Joining the skilled creative team is Projection Associate Amelia Scott in her company debut.Rusalka Cast and Creative Team UpdatesIn her company debut, mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis sings the role of Ježibaba replacing Michaela Martens, while several Apprentice artists make company debuts: Ilanah Lobel-Torres (First Wood Sprite); Lydia Grindatto(Second Wood Sprite); Meridian Prall (Third Wood Sprite); Jordan Loyd (Gamekeeper); Spencer Reichman (Hunter); and the role of the Kitchen Girl is shared by Apprentice singers Kaylee Nichols (through August 8) and Tessa Fackelmann (August 17, 22). Zeb Lalljee joins the creative team as the […]
2021-03-29 07:11:59
Opera, systemic racism, mass incarceration: White Snake Projects' Death by Life
[…] incarcerated artists will be hosted on White Snake Projects’ website. The final event is also a panel discussion Freedom-Making in an Age of Mass Incarceration featuring a number of activists and academics and which will be followed by at Q&A. Both discussions will be moderated by Alice Kim, Director of Human Rights Practice at the University of Chicago’s Pozen Center.Death by Life will be presented on-line on 20, 22, and 25 May 2021, with Tiana Sorenson, soprano, Lucia Bradford, mezzo-soprano, Aaron Blake, tenor and Nicholas Davis, baritone, directed by Kimille Howard with Tian Hui Ng, music director. The sets are immersive 3D environments created in Unreal Engine by Curvin Huber, White Snake’s Director of Innovation.Full details from the White Snake Projects website.
2020-06-17 16:15:00
Streaming Next at San Francisco Opera
[…] German translation of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play as the text, is best known for its shocking, intense situations based on Biblical literature and the composer’s extraordinary score, including the sensual “Dance of the Seven Veils.” German dramatic soprano Nadja Michael portrays the title role and bass-baritone Greer Grimsley is the object of her desire, Jokanaan (John the Baptist). The cast also stars tenor Kim Begley as Herod, mezzo-soprano Irina Mishura as Herodias and tenor Garrett Sorenson as Narraboth. San Francisco Opera’s former Music Director Nicola Luisotti leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. Salome is performed in German with English subtitles and has an approximate running time of 1 hour, 50 minutes.Manon — June 27San Francisco Opera’s most recent staging of Jules Massenet’s Manon in 2017, a new co-production with Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and the Israeli Opera, features the role debuts of soprano Ellie Dehn as Manon and […]
2019-12-09 04:37:00
Quick thoughts on Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Don Giovanni (the performance on Saturday November 30th) which impressed with overall high musical values and a first rate cast but was also just a little bit boring. Lyric deserves props for assembling a really tremendous cast here, each of the principals formidable rising or recently established important exponents of these roles on the stage today. In this heady company, Rachel Willis Sorenson’s Donna Anna stood out among the women, her ample, steely soprano a great vehicle for a relentlessly anxious, broken Donna Anna. Ying Fang has a gorgeous sound, a bright soubrette timbre but with healthy weight behind it, which she used in service of a particularly beautifully sung Zerlina. I’m not sure if she really got to a place that was more than (very) pretty, though. This was truly about as good as one could hope for as far as beautifully sung […]
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