Fou fighter
It is easy to become overly identified with opera—as a cleverer friend of mine once noted: being a sports fan is an interest, but if you like opera, everyone thinks of it as a crippling obsession.
Michaela Martens
8 pieces since 2014 — in 5 roles, at 4 companies, most often at San Francisco Opera.
8
pieces
5
roles
4
companies
13
years
Role Cassandre
Role Gertrude
Grimm and proper
Bring your family: This show is special! Such perfect opera is hard to find!
Role Klytämnestra
Revenge served cold
Of course, Stemme had the character’s frenzied fury at her father’s murderers in hand, but she had far more nuance—at times this Elektra was seductive, sympathetic, loving, even humorous in her bitterness.
Seriously? Right in front of Mycenae?
You’ve got your “Night in the Museum,”and your “It’s All In Her Head” and your “Pantomimes of Childhood Trauma” and that’s all before halftime.
Role Marilyn Klinghoffer
Anger’s aweigh
It was a night a-tingle with excitement at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Role Susan B. Anthony
Change the world – I want to get off
A dozen women or more talk and sing about all sort of important and exciting things, with “a man” near the bottom of their list of priorities.