Tag: opera
Latonia Moore Once Again Faces Down Verdi’s “Aida”
"I feel like my place in a business like this is to show you that what you look like as a person will never matter more than what it is you can create as an artist."
Composer Du Yun Explores 21st Century Manhood
"Musically, it's always in a way, like a second thought to me. It's funny, right? I'm always interested in human nature and and humanities and the complexity of the humans in question."
Deaf West Theatre’s DJ Kurs Is Rehearsing Opera
"I always assumed that opera was a world in a space that I shouldn't go into, which I shouldn't even bother."
Mezzo-Soprano Elīna Garanča Believes in the Magic of Opera…
"We are there to communicate with emotions. We are there to transport. We are there to support history, the imagination of somebody. And if it all gets just corrected by politics, it loses its purpose."
The New Opera “In a Grove” May Seem Familiar
"Not only is this work a masterpiece, but it's also adapted into a film that is also separately a masterpiece. I don't think it's necessary to do a straight telling of the story. "
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon Writes His Italian Opera
"The tragedy in this movie is that at the heart of it is this unrequited love story, which is a very, almost adolescent kind of pain. But that pain is magnified by the pain of the catastrophe in the background."
Festival Opera’s Zachary Gordin Goes Into the Fire
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...
Sara Jakubiak Conjures Her Second Tatyana in “Eugene Onegin”
"I do believe that there is still beauty and there is beauty we don't even know about yet from this pandemic...it's only just creeping out of the ground right now."
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. "
Iestyn Davies Learns from the Past to Assure His Future
"The moment you hear this music it's gone. Nobody else will ever hear it again in this version. That's what's really special."