To each word a warbling note
“What fools these mortals be!”
4 pieces since 2013 — in 3 roles, at 2 companies, most often at New York Philharmonic.
“What fools these mortals be!”
Hunger was the note of the night, a sentiment shared between the audience and Proving Up, a lean and hungry one-act telling a story of drought and desperation on the post-Civil War Western frontier.
UrbanArias’ recording of Paul’s Case is an antidote to the intellectual pretensions that regularly drag contemporary opera performance toward tediousness and boredom.
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