Indian summer
“Who will dare dance with me the ancient Dagger-Dance of the Californians?”
Matthew Singer
6 pieces since 2011 — in 5 roles, at 3 companies, most often at Heartbeat Opera.
6
pieces
5
roles
3
companies
16
years
Role Barbara's jealous cousin
Role Enrico
Women past the verge
An astute double-feature exposes all the complexities of female suffering embedded within two canonical works.
Role King Egeo
Witch of the season
Noticing how often she turns up lately, one might guess that the operatic “heroine” for the global economic crunch is Medea, the mythological Greek sorceress and filicide.
Role Lucas
Alcoholics astonished
Christoph Willibald Gluck wrote some fifty operatic works, not counting revisions and translations, and in every form extant in the two cities, Paris and Vienna, in which he made his career.
Role Sharpless
Fixing the fan
Cio-Cio and Carmen: what do you do with two tragic heroines who typify not just the sexist clichés, but also the soupy exotic fixations, of the Old-World West?
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).
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
