Patrick Mack
Patrick Mack starting listening to opera as a teenager to the total bewilderment of his rock and roll mother. He sang leading roles in the opera departments of Santa Monica College and UCLA and for two years in the Baltimore Symphony Chorus. In 2003 he joined the tenor section of The Verdi Chorus which has been giving young singers paid performance opportunities for over 30 years. He has served on their Board of
Directors since 2012 and handles their publicity, marketing, and Facebook page. Patrick is a luxury cruise consultant with All-Travel in
Los Angeles and was honored as one of the Top 25 Travel Agents in the country in 2015 by Travel Agent Magazine. Having weaned himself from an
early age on the musical opinions of Andrew Porter in the New Yorker, he has been wielding the critics pen on Parterre.com since 2011.
His singing of the national anthem has never failed to impress those standing closest to him at any public event he attends.
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Lawrence Brownlee “Rising” at Carnegie Hall
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee, “one of the most in-demand opera singers in the world today” (NPR), performs an anticipated program of newly commissioned works with texts drawn from great Black authors and poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Thursday, March 23 at Carnegie Hall. (Photo: Zakiyah Caldwell Burroughs)
The Verdi Chorus celebrated their 35th anniversary with their spring concert weekend entitled The Force of Destiny last Saturday night and Sunday afternoon.
By Patrick Mack
Neumeier adapted the story close to home, making Orpheus a choreographer and his wife a star ballerina.
By Patrick Mack
My mother leaned in and quietly whispered,”Is that Leontyne Price?” to which I replied,”Shhhh!”
By Patrick Mack
The arrival of a new recording of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello into the catalogue, to say nothing of a new tenor capable of singing Otello, is generally cause for hosannas all around in operatic circles.
By Patrick Mack
The Eloquence label of Australia, the down under-arm of Decca and now by extension Deutsche Grammophon, seems to specialize in the re-release of “Auld Lang Syne” treats.
By Patrick Mack
What if you could time travel back to the first run of Giuseppe Verdi’s first great success Nabucco?
By Patrick Mack
Georges Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles has been knocking steadily at the door of the standard repertoire now in this country for quite some time.
By Patrick Mack
When you attend a performance of Georges Bizet’s Carmen you can never be quite certain which one you’re in for.
By Patrick Mack
In May of last year tenor Piotr Beczala and soprano Anna Netrebko sang in Lohengrin for the first time under the baton of Christian Thielemann in his home house at the Staatskapelle Dresden.
By Patrick Mack
The Broad Stage presented Joseph Calleja in their Celebrity Opera Series May 10 with a concert called A Tribute to Mario Lanza.
By Patrick Mack
W.C. Fields used to have a funny trope about in show business you should never work with children or animals. To that list should perhaps be added the soprano Anna Netrebko.
By Patrick Mack
Not a few eyebrows arched on social media when L.A. Opera appropriated the hashtag “Fight like a girl” on street level poster adverts all over town for the revival of their 2013 production of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca.
By Patrick Mack
Mr. Fabiano proceeded to pour gasoline over the audience and toss a lit match into the crowd with his rendition of “Granada.”
By Patrick Mack
Saturday night the Los Angeles Opera threw itself a party.
By Patrick Mack
Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann has had a bumpy ride to its pride of position in the current French repertoire.
By Patrick Mack
I entered the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night for LA Opera’s 30 year old revival of their production of Salome with a combination of enthusiasm and apprehension.
By Patrick Mack
Let’s call this meeting to order. My name is Patrick and I’m a boxset-aholic.
By Patrick Mack
Friday night Music Director James Conlon sold Die Entfürhung aus dem Serial to a tony crowd of Angelenos.
By Patrick Mack
Now we find Mariella Devia, a diva held in near mythic regard due to her vocal longevity, with competing videos of two of her performances that were released, literally, on the same day.
By Patrick Mack
How many books have been published about Anna Maria Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulou Meneghini Callas, great operatic goddess of the dark arts?
By Patrick Mack
L.A. Opera offered an inspired concert staging of Leonard Bernstein’s musical-comedy bouquet to New York, Wonderful Town.
By Patrick Mack
Sony Classical has now released “Leontyne Price Prima Donna Assoluta” containing nearly her entire operatic oeuvre in a box set.
By Patrick Mack
The characters get right down to work immediately with their foul deeds.
By Patrick Mack
