David Daniels has just confided that he has this week received two singing engagement offers in Europe.
“A University of Michigan student is suing the school and renowned opera singer David Daniels, also a U-M professor, alleging Daniels sexually assaulted him.”
“Over the years, I have often been asked why I feel my sexuality is anyone’s business and why I am so open about it in print.”
Washingtonians enjoyed a happy reunion this past Sunday with David Daniels.
Fifteen years after his first parterre box interview, that criterion of countertenors David Daniels speaks of Oscar Wilde, Marilyn Horne, marriage and political art.
Christopher Alden‘s production of Handel’s Partenope is so erudite and theatrically audacious and also such a rollicking ride, it’s hard to believe it isn’t crap.
Recently, opera showed up at both Mets, the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Joined by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, The English Concert concluded the US leg of its current tour at Carnegie Hall Sunday with a complete performance of the darkly moving Theodora, Handel’s penultimate oratorio.
For decades thousands and thousands have attended Handel’s Messiah (usually around Christmas or more appropriately near Easter) making it easily one of the most widely known works of classical music.
Has it been a year already? Apparently so.
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