Tag: James Darrah
Kitty McNamee Choreographs Her Move Into the Director’s Chair
"In my mind it should have gone smoothly. This should've been a romantic comedy, but the parents had to get in there and society had to get in there."
CONGRATULATIONS: Mx. Justin Vivian Bond – 2024 MacArthur Fellow
"Happiness is a skill that you develop and also something that you can't be all the time."
ANNA SCHUBERT AND HER BOLD EMBRACE OF NEW OPERAS
"I'm going to be honest, this is one of the hardest things I've ever put together."
Composer Ellen Reid: Life Post-Pulitzer and Post-Pandemic
"Sitting with the unknown brought up some new things I'm interested in and things that I'm not interested anymore in in a very clear way that it might have just taken a lot more time to find had we not had that experience."
Top 10 of 2021
Happy New Year to everyone. Very soon we'll begin new interviews and highlights for 2022. But before we do, here is my list of...
Soprano Patricia Racette Paints a Portrait of Her Career
"You get to enjoy that really amazing experience of the audience responding to to what you've offered. But you cannot bite it. You have...
Kate Soper Revisits “Voices from the Killing Jar”
"I think it was the start of me becoming more interested in works that had explicit theatrical elements and a legible kind of quasi-narrative element. And it was really a chance for me to really see how versatile I could be as a performer."
Anthony Roth Costanzo Defines His Place in Opera
"I think what Dionysus and Dracula both try and show through being the stranger and the outsider is that we are all the same basically. "
Top Ten Best Bets: June 18th – June 21st
Leading this week's list are two concerts by jazz sensation Jazzmeia Horn
Top Ten Best Bets: June 4th – June 7th
Voice is all shapes, sizes and forms are celebrated in this week's performing arts highlights