Witchery and bitchery
Double double, toil and trouble, y’all, and happy spooky season from Slaylem. (It’s like Salem, but fun.)
Jamilyn Manning-White
4 pieces since 2014 — in 4 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Heartbeat Opera.
4
pieces
4
roles
2
companies
13
years
By role
By company
Role Abigail
Role Euridice
Orpheus goes downtown
Marc-Antoine Charpentier came along at the wrong time for a composer of French opera.
Role First Witch
‘Lady’ Willpower
Lady M, an Online Fantasia on Verdi’s Macbeth, Heartbeat Opera’s creative and thought-provoking foray into the Zoom opera scene, left me feeling alternately pensive, hopeful and somewhat uneasy, in a good way.
Role Lucia
Women past the verge
An astute double-feature exposes all the complexities of female suffering embedded within two canonical works.