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.
Terrence Chin-Loy
6 pieces since 2019 — in 5 roles, at 3 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
6
pieces
5
roles
3
companies
8
years
Role Charles's brother
Role Charlie
Seamless
Baritone Will Liverman is becoming a real Renaissance man.
Role Don José
Leaner, meaner and tighter
Why did Ted Sperling and MasterVoices choose to perform an old warhorse like Carmen which has been produced almost continuously over decades just up the street at Lincoln Center?
Role Laurese Glover
Songs of innocence
Blind Injustice is a masterpiece, brilliant theater.
Role Vitej
He plays the violin
This Bard production, led by Leon Botstein, makes the strongest possible case musically, dramatically and visually for Smetana’s opera Dalibor.
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).