Opera
Janice and Cindy’s Cultural Venetian Adventure
In June of 2016, I spent a glorious week in Venice with my close friend and colleague Cindy Sadler. We had met in the 1990s while performing in Arizona Opera’s Ring Cycle. Cindy was the only artist who had appeared in all four operas (as Erde, Schwertleite, and First Norn), while I sang the role of Fricka…
Read MoreBrief Review of Met’s Romeo et Juliette
Last Saturday, 21 January 2016, my friend Anne Orio and I had a thoroughly delightful afternoon at the Live  from the Met HD broadcast of Gounod’s RomĂ©o et Juliette at the Hooksett Cinemagic.  What could be more tragically beautiful than this story of doomed young lovers? I had only heard this opera live one other time,…
Read MoreOpera Concert on 12/30/2016
This is a few weeks after the fact, but here goes. On Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, I heard 6 talented singers present a program of opera arias and scenes at Christ Church in Exeter, NH http://christchurchexeter.org. My student Max McGrath http://maxmcgrath.com sang one of his “signature” arias, “Ah, la paterna mano” from Verdi’s Macbeth, and quite beautifully,…
Read More“Live” Opera in NH
As some of you know, I am a big fan of the Live from the Met in HD Saturday matinees. What a wonderful way to spend a chilly Saturday afternoon in a dark theatre watching live opera, broadcast directly from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, with superlative casts and production values. On Jan. 21, the much…
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