"It was super intimidating because it's really hard work. I wanted to rise to that challenge and I knew I had it in me...somewhere."
"We need to continue to think about the future. We want to be able to to have theater be available to everyone."
"Early on we decided we didn't want to be soap-boxy and so we wanted to kind of enter into a space that allowed for allegory and some sense of magic or something that almost like Aesop's fable."
"I really enjoy getting to know people and places and operas and productions that differ from each other because it makes me feel like my life is richer."
Cultural Attaché's first Broadway show in the COVID era
Pantages Theatre
August 17th - January 2nd
August 17th - January 2nd
"I like that people are being respectful and trying to be good social advocates. But it's kind of sad to me that this movement has, in a way, stifled art."
"It's just been a passion for all of us and it was certainly a passion of Rick's. I'm only sorry he's not here to see it come to life. And everybody can now enjoy it. Not only enjoy it, but learn from it. It's all there and these films were meant to be seen."
A great way to become familiar with a composer's work is to perform it. Zachary Gordin, the General Director of Festival Opera in Walnut Creek, is intimately familiar with the work of composer Jake Heggie. Arguably Heggie's best-known work...