Up Close and Personal
You will be seeing portions of our discussion with the exciting young stars of “The Marriage of Figaro:” sopranos Lyubov Petrova and Susanna Phillips, bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch and baritone Michael...
View ArticleThe Figaro 4 – An interview with the Cast of The Marriage of Figaro
Allow me to interject a little background. What you see before you is a casual (and somewhat tongue-in-cheek) conversation at the end of a long afternoon of serious interviews by members of the local...
View ArticleNo "Park and Bark" Allowed
It’s an altogether different era in opera: Buff bodies, sprinting singers, fine actors and actresses adorning the world’s greatest stages and bringing opera to life as never before. Two of the best of...
View ArticleFrom the Desk of Artistic Director Jonathan Pell
The auditions yesterday were slightly disappointing. The singer I was most looking forward to hearing cancelled because he was to sing last night in LUCIA. His name is Rene Barbera, and he is from...
View ArticleFrom the Desk of Artistic Director Jonathan Pell, Santa Fe Part III
I am often asked to judge the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions around the country and several years ago I found myself in New Orleans where we were to select someone to go to New York to...
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