Opera Interviews - Page 5

With the season's first performance of Donizetti's ANNA BOLENA--that's Henry VIII's Anne Boleyn to all you Masterpiece Theatre fans--at the Met, the big news is that it's soprano Sondra Radvanovsky's first part of the Tudor Trilogy, with MARIA STUARDA and ROBERTO DEVEREUX to come later in the season...

When I heard mezzo Jamie Barton at the Metropolitan Opera's recital in Central Park in the summer of 2014, she would have knocked my socks off--if I hadn't been wearing sandals. This time around­--newly anointed winner of the 2015 Richard Tucker Award--at a concert presented by WQXR at New York's Gr...

Composer Gregory Spears and librettist Royce Vavrek talk the relationship between space travel and Houston, and how it inspired the new chamber opera O COLUMBIA....

She was hand-picked by Leonard Bernstein to sing Mimi in his Grammy nominated La boheme...

We still have a lot of work to do, clearly, but I'm not daunted...

After only two weeks at the job, Bennett already had an abundance of experience to share...

Many audiences are familiar with the zany Marx Brothers movie, A Night at the Opera. But for a fast-paced and even funnier theatrical show about a night at the opera, check out Lend Me A Tenor, opening at the Washington County Playhouse in Hagerstown, MD this weekend....

His star is not just rising; it already has found its place in the operatic firmament...

Meachem is about to take Europe by storm with an extended tour...

Opening this weekend at Hagerstown Hub Opera, Puccini's La Boheme proves that the struggle is real. La Boheme is one of the most well known operatic stories about a group of young, impoverished artists struggling to make ends meet while holding onto their artistic ideals in a Parisian garret. Millen...

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in classical music, he has won Oscar, Golden Globe and World Soundtrack Awards...

Based in the Bay Area, Stevens wears many hats...

Stephanie Blythe--who's at the Met these days singing Baba the Turk in Stravinsky's THE RAKE'S PROGRESS--“abhors labels.” That's why, despite a cavernous voice that has become even deeper with age and could easily be termed mezzo or contralto, she tells me to call her “a girl singer.”...

On March 12, 2015, San Diego Opera announced that Bennett would be taking the reins of the company...

Broadwayworld.com interviewed opera singer Cole Grissom about his career....

Tenor Bryan Hymel's rapid rise is being followed by opera mavens worldwide....

When doing an interview with an artist I am in awe of their love and dedication for their craft. This month I had the pleasure to meet American mezzo-soprano Briana Hunter and our conversation went from traditional interview to old friends talking about their love for the classics. Our mutual love f...

Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi answered a few questions from BroadwayWorld DC about what audiences might expect from the world premiere of BLUE VIOLA, their writing partnership, history with UrbanArias, and of course the whole contested debate about musical theatre vs. opera....

She caused a sensation at the Met Opera and elicited critical raves for her Brunnhilde at Canadian Opera Company...

Korean-American soprano Kathleen Kim returns as the power-hungry Chiang Ch'ing, aka Madame Mao...

It has been a very good year in New York for the Mozart of Swedish baritone Peter Mattei. He helped open the season with the Met's new production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, receiving a splendid reception for his performance as Count Almaviva, which brought new insights to a role that frequently gets los...

Met Opera luminary Lucine Amara, Artistic Director of the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, celebrates a milestone on March 1: her 90th birthday and over 70 years performing on the stage....

What happens when you combine the worst/best of Craigslist personal ads and music? The Craigslistlieder....

Opera fanatics and newcomers alike will discover the mysterious world behind the stage curtain in CATCO's production of "Master Class." Transported to an intimate voice master class at the Juliard School, audiences will come face-to-face with the larger-than-life persona of Maria Callas, one of the ...

Heartbeat Opera is a new company intent upon re-imagining opera in intimate spaces for a new generation. Employing a minimalism that allows the emotional integrity of the music to shine through, the company's work focuses on the body of the singer and the visceral power of the music....

I found myself rapt when Chicago-born soprano Nicole Heaston spoke. She was warm, passionate and driven about her art, and generous and unguarded with her thoughts and opinions. Heaston is Pamina to David Portillo's Tamino in Houston Grand Opera's production of THE MAGIC FLUTE....

her panoply of experiences with famous directors, conductors, and opera luminaries like Dame Joan Sutherland...

On January 30, Houston's two major opera houses will begin performances of Mozart's final two completed operas - LA CLEMENZA DI TITO and THE MAGIC FLUTE. Opera in the Heights will open LA CLEMENZA DI TITO for the first time in Houston since 1991, and Houston Grand Opera will open THE MAGIC FLUTE....

MacKenzie is a familiar presence to SDO fans...

Our interviewee is the beloved British actor and Dickens authority Simon Callow. He has mastered the stage but also appeared in Dr. Who (fittingly as Charles Dickens). In his lengthy acting career, he has acted in television, theatre, and film. At the moment, he is the librettist and director for Ho...

Santa Claus may be coming to town, but the Three Wise Men will be arriving sooner in a new production of Amahl and the Night Visitors. Hagerstown Hub Opera Ensemble will present a special one time only production, directed by Phillip Collister in conjunction with Towson University Music for the Stag...

“To be blunt, Sergei is not a nice guy,” says tenor Brandon Jovanovich, talking about his current role at the Metropolitan Opera in Dmitri Shostakovich's LADY MACBETH OF MTENSEK. “He's the kind of fellow who's jovial and friendly one minute…and then you hear he's robbed a store. He uses and abuses p...

When I got back from Tanzania I was presenting in the Proms on television for the BBC. It was so surreal to try to piece all of that together....

'I am honored to use my voice to help raise awareness and support for the world's most vulnerable … their determination to build a better future.'...

Opera has been as large an identification with Thomas Hampson's persona as anything else....

Thomas Hampson has scored triumph after triumph in a stellar international career whose length and degree of success belie his still youthful age....

Just in time for Halloween, Hagerstown Hub Opera will present the classic children's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel on October 4 and 5, featuring an enchanted forest, magical creatures and, of course, a wicked witch!...

Clearly the people at SDO can learn a lot from William Mason....

Newly minted Artistic Advisor for a reborn San Diego Opera William Mason learned the ropes of opera artistic administration from such luminaries as Carol Fox and Ardis Krainik....

Houston Grand Opera's first ever Ring Cycle is about to kick off with what is promised to be a spellbinding and incredibly visual production of Richard Wagner's DAS RHEINGOLD. As audiences grow all the more eager to see the show of this groundbreaking show, I chatted with Christopher Purves, who is ...