Playing with ‘Fire’
With composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmons‘ incendiary Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the Met makes long overdue history and Will Liverman ascends to superstardom.
Calvin Griffin
4 pieces since 2017 — in 4 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Glimmerglass Festival.
4
pieces
4
roles
4
companies
10
years
Role Charles's brother
Role Death
Sisters are doing it for themselves
Pauline Viardot‘s Cendrillon hews closer to the Perrault original than either Rossini or Massenet’s more familiar retellings and is dainty in conception as a salon opera for her students.
Role Elviro
Tree for the show
The late-mid 1730s were transitional years for Handel, to put it nicely.
Role The Loudspeaker
Atlantis in Atlanta
“Once upon a time / Lived a foolish king. / Mocking Death, his crime, / Pure chaos he bring.”