You will, David, you will
La Cieca hears that parterre fave David Daniels will get all eponymous and stuff for a world premiere opera entitled Oscar, based on the life of Oscar Wilde, for Santa Fe Opera in 2013, with Opera Company of Philadelphia to follow. The work is to boast music by Theodore Morrison and a libretto and stage direction by John Cox.
Actually, *this* is the role David will be playing in OSCAR:
La Cieca has in fact managed to put her hands on a brief snippet of this opera, featuring David’s showpiece aria.
What an INSULT to Ms Roberta Peters!! (even in German)!!
During my Peabody student days, Morrison was head of the choral department and gave me two of the most enriching musical experiences of my life -- singing Purcell’s Aeneas and solos in Britten’s Cantata Misericordium. He is a brilliant musician and great intellect. I never knew he was a composer and wish him a great success.
If this is a hit they could perhaps revive Dorian Gray, which had Philip Langridge in it, and Roberta Alexander as Sybil Vane.
With this title post I could not resist, sorry:
Saw this when it first came out . . . think its worth another look . . .
oops, I meant the video before the last one.
Daniels is a fine musician, but who knew that Oscar Wilde sounds like a fairy?!!!
The reason (well,one of them) that I am a mess today is when I was 8 my ma took me “innocently” to see “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and I got so scared..(The picture was in COLOR in a B/W film)…I had nightmares even worse than when I dreamt of making love to Kurt Baum…..
Will they show a scene from the scary novel in the opera??If so, who will play the portrait….Is Albert Innaurato available????
Looking at Parterre ad..and not wanting to help La Cieca lose money….Zinka, my all-time fav.singer hits high notes like Vassilka Petrova…I was THERE!! Sony is so stupid…..