Maid love
The Berta (mezzo-soprano Emily Damasco) runs away with the show.
Adam Kiss
3 pieces since 2018 — in 3 roles, at 3 companies, most often at Curtis Institute of Music.
3
pieces
3
roles
3
companies
9
years
Role Bartolo
Role bass in Mahagonny Singspiel
Medium, cool
Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht’s Mahagonny Singspiel, and Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium—are not only combined, but configured to overlap in sometimes revealing, occasionally confounding ways.
Role Leporello
They love a piano
It’s difficult to reconcile what Schlather writes with what we see onstage, which is a jumble not only of pianos, but of periods and concepts.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).