Ana Papakhian Named Executive Director of Camerata Pacifica Photo
by Blair Ingenthron
- August 19, 2023
Camerata Pacifica – a chamber music collective based in Santa Barbara, California renowned for its musical versatility and bold programming that illuminates the limitless scope of the chamber music repertoire – has named Ana Papakhian Executive Director....
VIDEO: LIVE WITH CARNEGIE HALL Presents Isabel Leonard Photo
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- June 25, 2020
Isabel Leonard first graced the Carnegie Hall stage in 2005 as a participant in Marilyn Horne's series of master classes. Her varied repertoire ranges from operas by Vivaldi to Nico Muhly, from Spanish art songs to treasures from the American Songbook....
BWW Review: ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKE'S at Carnegie Hall Feb 6 Photo
by George Weinhouse
- February 10, 2020
Bernard Labadie led the Orchestra of St Luke's in a well-curated program of magnificent Baroque music Thursday night. The evening also served to expose New Yorkers to the rich contralto voice of Marie-Nicole Lemieux, a singer who has been garnering praise and awards for the last twenty years....
BWW Interview: Isabel Leonard of DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES at The Metropolitan Oper Photo
by Peter Danish
- April 18, 2019
Isabel Leonard is one of, if not the, most in-demand opera singer in the world today. For the last decade her star has been on the rise all around the world both on the opera and concert stages. This season at The Met alone she's performing in three different production, singing three roles that could not be more starkly dissimilar: the title role of Nico Muhly's Marnie, Claude Debussy's Melisande and the upcoming Blanche de la Force in Poulenc's 'Dialogues of the Carmelites'. Given the rigor of...
The Met Names Thomas Lausmann Director Of Music Administration Photo
by Julie Musbach
- January 02, 2019
The Metropolitan Opera announced today that Thomas Lausmann, currently the Head of Music at the Vienna State Opera, will become the Met's Director of Music Administration at the start of the 2019 20 season. Lausmann will replace Assistant General Manager John Fisher, who is stepping down after many years at the Met to resume his freelance musical career. Fisher will continue to coach many of the world's top singers on a freelance basis, including on occasion at the Met....