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Q & A: Conductor Paolo Arrivabeni on Why His Work Is Never Static & How It Is an Opportunity for Rediscovery and Growth
(Photo © Marc Larcher) To learn from Maestro Paolo Arrivabeni about his journey before he steps on the podium to conduct an opera or a symphony is more than a treat. It is a brief excursion into some of the layers he explores before he picks up his baton. More than rehearsals with singers and orchestra, more than simply studying {…}
Vast Imagination – Directors Shawna Lucey & Michelle Ainna Cuizon on Bringing their Vision to Opera San José & the Opera World at Large
(Photo credit: Louis Chan / David Allen) What does the future look like for female directors in opera? Opera San José, the opera company in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, now entering its 41st season, gives OperaWire a look at two young trailblazers: the current CEO and General Director, Shawna Lucey, and Michelle Ainna Cuizon, presently in residence and {…}
Q & A: American Soprano Jane Marsh on Her Career & How to Magnetize What You Want in Your Own Career
When Jane Marsh made her Italian and European début at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy singing the demanding part of Desdemona in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Otello,” she was just past her teens. She had been recommended to Thomas Schippers by the Metropolitan Opera as he was looking for a soprano to sing the role for the opening of {…}
Indie Opera
The Town Hall to Give New York Premiere of ‘The Tongue & The Lash’
The Town Hall celebrates James Baldwin with the New York premiere of the chamber opera,“The Tongue & The Lash” and “A Return to Civic Discourse” on Feb. 18, 2025. Damien Sneed and Karen Chilton’s “The Tongue & The Lash” picks up at the end of Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr.’s infamous televised debate in Feb. 1965. The opera imagines {…}
Bronx Opera to Present Humperdinck’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’
The Bronx Opera is set to present Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.” The work will be shown on Jan. 31 and Feb. 2 at the Lovinger Theater/Lehman College in The Bronx. The work will be conducted by conductor Michael Spierman. The opera will be sung in English When Humperdinck composed the work he described it as a Marchenoper (fairy-tale opera) and {…}