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American opera singer
- baritone
- United States of America
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-25 20:45:39
Atmospheric But Not Dreary
[…] I just hope we can continue to do it and do it well. We all really admire how your ego works. It’s not about you and the spotlight. It’s about your recorded legacy; we’re all the better for that. Thank you. That’s a very nice thing to hear. Dominick Argento: The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (1975-76) April 5th at the Huntington Theater Tickets HERE Composer: Dominick Argento (1927-2019)Librettist: Charles Nolte (1923-2010)Edgar Allan Poe: Peter Tantsits (tenor)Griswold.: Tom Meglioranza (baritone)Virginia Poe: Maggie Finnegan (soprano)Doctor: Neal Ferreira (tenor)Mrs. Poe: Kirsten Arnold (soprano)Mrs. Clemm: Felicia Gavilanes (mezzo-soprano)Mrs. Allan: Christina English (mezzo-soprano)Director: Anne HarleyTheatre Director: David Salsbery FryConductor: Gil RoseMusicians: Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera chorus The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2017-09-14 02:21:50
Thomas Meglioranza is an award-winning American baritone whose highlights from the 2016-17 season included a Hugo Wolf recital at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, J.C.F. Bach's solo cantata 'Pygmalion' with Ars Lyrica Houston, the role of St. John in Louis Karchin's Jane Eyre with the Center for Contemporary Opera, and a debut with the New York New Music Ensemble singing James Primosch's Dark the Star . He is also a visiting artist in voice at the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-11-26 21:13:20
[…] gone down that path. Using the knife with which he murdered his artist friend, he attacks the painting—and collapses. The painting is discovered as fresh as it was the first day, while Dorian’s body shrivels into the wrinkled face of an old man,, the knife in his heart. As we have come to expect with Odyssey Opera, the cast, made up of both local and imported singers, is strong throughout. Most striking was baritone Thomas Meglioranza as Dorian Gray’s charming “devil,” Lord Henry Wotton, with undercurrents of insinuation every time he addresses Dorian. Jon Jurgens was an excellent Dorian Gray, living his life of purposeful immorality, apparently without consequences, though he is strongly affected every time he sees his portrait further decayed. Matthew Curran gave a stalwart performance as the artist whose painting starts the tale and who dies as a result of it. Dorian’s love (for a short time) […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-06-02 23:21:44
Odyssey’s Monodramas Gratify Greatly
[…] tone. There is a perhaps inevitable falling off of tension after the graphically described battle, but Keusch still managed to make the sage’s summing up interesting, even getting a slight titter at the end: “Why did Harald bother? . . . I could have told him it would end like this.” Perhaps being her own librettist was not Weir’s best idea, but a performer of Keusch’s caliber goes far to ameliorate weak spots. Thomas Meglioranza (Kathy Wittman photo) The evening concluded with a third mad protagonist (a staple of opera, to be sure). The Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) of Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934) examine the particular dementia of King George III. A confirmed advocate of the avant garde, Davies leaves behind the stylized operatic mad scene and attempts to represent the real thing, requiring extended techniques of singer and instruments alike. The intrepid baritone […]
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