Ronnie Banerjee
Ronnie Banerjee is an opera-lover and a scientist. Their very first opera was a Salome at the Leipzig Staatsoper. They are a Canadian researcher with a PhD in nanobiomaterials from Saskatoon, where they worked at the Canadian Light Source (a synchrotron), and occasionally scared personnel there with bad renditions of the confrontation scene from Maria Stuarda. They are presently based in Colorado, and look forward to visiting the Met one day.
Just in time for this month’s theme of filth or dementia, a review of Terrence McNally‘s Master Class from Central City Opera.
A grandly sung revival of The Ballad of Baby Doe at Central City Opera mines poignance from America’s past and present.
Madama Butterfly at Opera Colorado plays it safe — and never fully takes flight.
Following last week’s performances in Cleveland, Ronnie Banerjee compares six different versions of the Kostelnicka’s monologue from Leos Janácek’s Jenufa for “Perspectives on an Aria”
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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