Podcasts about Cincinnati Opera

This episode of The Other Side of the Bell, featuring trumpet legend and women's trumpet trailblazer Marie Speziale, is brought to you by Bob Reeves Brass. This episode also appears as a video episode on our YouTube channel, you can find it here: "Marie Speziale trumpet interview" *Note to listeners and viewers: we're rebalancing our podcast release schedule, to alternate The Other Side of the Bell with our other two podcasts: Trombone Corner and The Horn Signal. Hence the back-to-back episode of TOSOTB this week!  If you haven't already, check out our other two shows for more fantastic interviews with horn-playing legends!   Trombone Corner The Horn Signal     About Marie Speziale:   Acknowledged as the first woman trumpeter in a major symphony orchestra, Marie Speziale retired from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1996 after having served as Associate Principal Trumpet for thirty-two years (1964-1996).   A graduate of the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati (CCM), Ms. Speziale studied with Robert Price, Eugene Blee and Arnold Jacobs. Her tenure with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) included playing with the Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati May Festival, Cincinnati Ballet and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras. She performed under the batons of Igor Stravinsky, George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Eugene Ormandy, Eric Leinsdorf, Max Rudolf and so many more.   In addition to solo appearances with the Cincinnati Symphony, Cincinnati Pops and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestras, she was featured on NBC's Today Show at age 15, in an impromptu jam session with Duke Ellington shortly after joining the orchestra, and with Dave Brubeck on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show, the CSO European tour, and at the Interlochen Arts Academy. While a student at CCM, she recorded sound tracks for James Brown, whose career was launched by the historic King Records in Cincinnati.   Marie served on the CCM faculty, 1964 -1973, on the faculty at Miami University of Ohio, 1973 - 1979, and returned to CCM as Adjunct Associate Professor, 1979 - 2002. She was appointed Professor of Music at Indiana University 1999, serving there until a year after her 2001 appointment as Professor of Trumpet and Brass Department Chair at the prestigious Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.   In 1999, Marie was one of six Americans (and the only American woman) to be invited by the Tokyo International Music Festival to perform in its first Super World Orchestra. In addition to the National Trumpet Competitions, she has served as adjudicator for the ITG, IWBC and the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music competitions.   In 1996, Ms. Speziale performed with the Monarch Brass on its inaugural tour. She conducted the Monarch Brass at the 1997 and 2014 conferences, and played, toured and recorded with Monarch Brass Quintet and Monarch Brass Ensemble until retiring from playing.   President of IWBC, 1997 - 2001, Marie hosted the 2000 conference at CCM and served on the Board of Directors.   Ms. Speziale has won many awards and honors, including Leading Women in the Arts Award from the Greater Cincinnati Coalition of Women's Organizations, the Outstanding Woman of the Year in Music Award from the Tampa Tribune, the SAI Chapter, Province and National Leadership Awards, the Pioneer Award from the International Women's Brass Conference, the Golden Rose Award from the Women Band Directors International, the Woman of Excellence Award from the Italian Club of Tampa, the Distinguished Alumna Award from CCM and the Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Cincinnati.   In 2018, Marie was inducted into the Cincinnati Jazz Hall of Fame as part of their recognition of the Symphony Jazz Quintet, of which she was a founding member. She was presented with the prestigious Honorary Award from the International Trumpet Guild at their 2018 conference. In 2019, Ms. Speziale was one of 100 women recognized by Cincinnati Arts Wave in their Celebration of Women in the Arts: Power of Her.   Marie Speziale retired as Professor Emerita from Rice University in 2013. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and the Emeritus Board of the IWBC.   Podcast listeners! Enter code "podcast" at checkout for 15% off any of our Gard bags! Visit trumpetmouthpiece.com for more info.     Episode Links: International Women's Brass Conference, May 19-24, Hartford, Connecticut. Register: myiwbc.org Sign up sheet for valve alignments: bobreeves.com/iwbc International Trumpet Guild Conference, May 27-31, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Sign up sheet for valve alignments: bobreeves.com/itg William Adam Trumpet Festival, June 19-22, Clarksville, Tennessee. williamadamtrumpet.com  Sign up sheet for valve alignments: bobreeves.com/williamadam   Podcast Credits: “A Room with a View“ - composed and performed by Howie Shear Podcast Host - John Snell Cover Art - courtesy of Marie Speziale Audio Engineer - Ted Cragg  

In February/March 2026 Seattle Opera premieres a new production of Fellow Travelers, an opera (based on the novel by Thomas Mallon) with music by Gregory Spears to a libretto by Greg Pierce that premiered at Cincinnati Opera in 2016. Jonathan Dean introduces this beautiful new American opera, a love story set against the historical backdrop of McCarthy's witch hunts and the Lavender Scare in 1950s Washington, DC. Musical examples from the world premiere recording of Fellow Travelers, conducted by Mark Gibson and featuring Aaron Blake as Tim, Joseph Lattanzi as Hawk, Devon Guthrie as Mary, Tayla Lieberman as Lucy, Marcus DeLoach, Vernon Hartman, Paul Scholten, and Christian Pursell in other roles, with the orchestra of Cincinnati Opera.

James Robinson, new General and Artistic Director of Seattle Opera, introduces the 2025/26 season. The Pirates of Penzance promises a musically extraordinary operatic approach to Gilbert & Sullivan; come prepared to laugh and to enjoy some familiar music as you've never heard it before. Daphne In Concert offers a rare opportunity to hear a lush Romantic masterpiece by Richard Strauss, an orchestral tour de force with splendid voices. Fellow Travelers, by Gregory Spears & Greg Pierce, is one of the most successful new American operas of the past decade: a bittersweet gay romance hidden inside a political thriller. And Carmen returns in a powerful production conducted by Seattle's beloved Ludovic Morlot and starring some of our favorite singers. Musical examples include excerpts from a 1959 Glyndebourne Pirates of Penzance, conducted by Malcolm Sargent and starring George Baker, Elsie Morison, and James Milligan; the 1964 Vienna Festival Daphne conducted by Karl Böhm and starring Hilde Gueden, Fritz Wunderlich, and James King; the recording of Fellow Travelers' world premiere, 2016 at Cincinnati Opera and starring Aaron Blake, Joseph Lattanzi, and Devon Guthrie, with the Cincinnati Symphony conducted by Mark Gibson; and Seattle Opera recordings of Carmen from 2019, Les Troyens from 2025, starring J'Nai Bridges and conducted by Ludovic Morlot, and Hansel und Gretel from 2016 starring Sasha Cooke and conducted by Sebastian Lang-Lessing.

In this episode, Hayley and Amy talk with arts administrator and producer Skye Cone Ivey about values-first producing, making space for people who have been excluded, advocating for mental health and women's health, and more. Click here for a transcript of the episode! Episode Notes Hosts: Hayley Goldenberg and Amy AndrewsGuest: Skye Cone IveyMusic: Chloe Geller Episode Resources: National Alliance for Musical Theatre Hot Girls Write Musicals More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth  Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You by Maisie Hill Her Mood Mentor National Alliance on Mental Illness Support Groups Guest Bio: Skye Cone Ivey (she/ella) is a Latina, feminist and changemaker based in NYC. She is the New Works Associate and a Festival Producer for the Annual Festival of New Musicals at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Skye is originally from St. Petersburg, Florida and has been living in NYC since receiving a BFA in Stage Management from the University of Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music (CCM). Selected regional stage management credits include: Cincinnati Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Theatre Now New York and the Prototype Festival. Skye also works as a wedding planner and a mental health advocate with the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Find Skye Online: Instagram Thanks for listening! Who do you want to hear from next on the Women & Theatre Podcast? Nominate someone here. The Women & Theatre Podcast is created and produced by Hayley Goldenberg and Amy Andrews. Please like, comment, subscribe, follow us on Instagram and Facebook, and consider making a donation to support our work. Thank you for listening!

La saison actuelle, tout comme celles à venir, sera caractérisée par des jalons importants pour la mezzo tuniso-canadienne Rihab Chaieb, ce qui comprend notamment son rôle-titre dans Carmen au Festival de Glyndebourne, son rôle de Claire dans Melancholia avec le Kungliga Operan, son rôle de Dorabella dans Così fan tutte tutte à la Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, en plus de ses apparitions auprès du Los Angeles Philharmonic, de la Compagnie nationale d'opéra du Canada et de l'Orchestre symphonique de Québec, ainsi que son retour au Metropolitan Opera et à la Bayerische Staatsoper.Rihab Chaieb a fait ses débuts à la Bayerische Staatsoper lors de la saison de 2022-2023, où elle a ébloui l'audience dans son rôle de Fenena dans Nabucco, sous la direction de Daniele Rustioni, puis au Los Angeles Opera dans le rôle de Cherubino dans Le nozze di Figaro de James Gray, sous la direction de James Conlon. Elle a ensuite repris son interprétation exceptionnelle de Carmen à la Compagnie nationale d'opéra du Canada et au Calgary Opera, avant de retourner au Grand Théâtre de Genève où elle a été mise en vedette dans son rôle de La mère Meryem lors la première mondiale du Voyage vers l'espoir de Jost.Sur les scènes de concert, elle est apparue aux côtés du Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra dans une prestation de Messiah de Handel, elle a également partagé la scène du Vancouver Symphony Orchestra pour présenter Les nuits d'été de Berlioz sous la direction d'Otto Tausk, puis elle a fait son premier spectacle auprès du Manitoba Chamber Orchestra dans le rôle de Ruggiero dans Alcina de Handel.Rihab Chaieb a marqué la saison 2021-2022 en faisant son entrée au Washington National Opera dans le rôle de Dorabella dans Così fan tutte, puis au Palm Beach Opera dans le rôle titre de Carmen. Elle a joué pour la première fois le rôle de Penelope dans Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria en tournée et pour un enregistrement avec l'Ensemble I Gemelli, avant de retourner à l'Opéra National de Montpellier pour jouer Maddalena dans Rigoletto, puis au Metropolitan Opera pour incarner Nefertiti dans la production d'Akhnaten de Philip Glass mis en scène par Phelim McDermott et sous la direction Karen Kamensek.Elle a récemment connu de nombreux succès, notamment en faisant ses débuts au Houston Grand Opera lors de la première mondiale de The Phoenix de Tarik O'Regan, puis au Cincinnati Opera dans le rôle de Rosina dans Il barbiere di Siviglia, ainsi qu'à l'Opéra de Montpellier dans Fantasio d'Offenbach, au Teatro Santiago de Chile en incarnant Dorabella, à l'Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Kasturbai dans Satyagraha de Philip Glass, et enfin à l'Oper Köln dans le rôle de Carmen dans une production de Lydia Steier.Elle a joué le rôle de Charlotte dans Werther pour la première fois à l'Opera Vlaanderen sous la direction de Giedrė Šlekytė et elle a ouvert la saison au Muziektheater dans le rôle de Lola dans Cavalleria Rusticana de Robert Carsen sous la direction de Lorenzo Viotti. Sur les scènes de concert, Rihab Chaieb s'est produite avec l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal dans un programme de Rossini sous la direction de Kent Nagano, ainsi que dans Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen de Mahle sous la direction de Johannes Debus. Elle a également interprété Messiah de Handel sous la direction de Gustavo Gimeno avec le Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Elle a aussi chanté Three-Cornered Hat de Manuel de Falla avec le Vancouver Symphony Orchestra et le Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra sous la direction de Carlos Miguel Prieto.Instagram :https://www.instagram.com/laprescriptiondrfred/?hl=frFacebook :https://www.facebook.com/people/La-prescription-avec-Dr-Fred-Lambert/100078674880976/ Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Live recording from an AMA (Ask Me Anything) Panel Discussion on April 28, 2024. The panelists of the sessions were:Marta Gardolinska, Music Director, Opera national de LorraineStephanie Rhodes Russell, Founder, Women's Artistic Leadership Initiative; Guest Conductor, Wolf Trap Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Washington National OperaMichelle Rofrano, Artistic Director, PROTESTRA; Guest Conductor, Madison Opera, City Lyric Opera, Curtis Institute of MusicIf you missed my interview with Michelle Rofrano in Season 1 Episode 3 where we discussed programming for social causes, make sure to revisit it: https://theconductorspodcast.com/podcast/3/All About Chaowen Ting

Fan-favorite guests Elliot Roberts and Rob Sheffield return to the "Here, There, and Everywhere" podcast and join host Jack Lawless in a nearly 5 hour epic conversation about Paul McCartney's life, music, and career after The Beatles.    Welcome to Part 3 of our conversation about one of the most successful musicians in history, Paul McCartney. In this episode, Jack asks Elliot and Rob about how Paul's relationships to his former bandmates John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr changed throughout the post-Beatles years, how Paul's upbringing and the looming legacy of The Beatles affected his music in his solo years, their favorites of Paul's collaborations with other artists, and their favorite era of Paul's life and music to geek out on.    Do we discuss your favorite Paul McCartney era? Tune in to find out!   Check out the featured Cincinnati Opera's Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio.  You can buy tickets here: https://www.cincinnatiopera.org/liverpool-oratorio?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADOhubPlMgwyItjbJryirdnkUwyHh&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-uK0BhC0ARIsANQtgGOiyrJdVIKHu2qxr7qBA-Q36qy2vm0YKW5IX0sjL-IZgvVhQJwVWRIaAg92EALw_wcB   Follow the #CincinnatiOpera on instagram for more info here: https://www.instagram.com/cincinnatiopera/?img_index=1 -- Rob Sheffield is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and has been covering music, TV, and pop culture since 1997. He is the New York Times best-selling author of five books, including 'Love Is A Mix Tape,' 'Talking To Girls About Duran Duran,' 'Turn Around Bright Eyes,' 'On Bowie' and 'Dreaming The Beatles.'    Check out Rob Sheffield's book 'Dreaming The Beatles' Follow Rob on Twitter: @robsheff   Elliot is a YouTuber who creates videos about The Beatles and their legacy. His YouTube videos have become quite popular, averaging close to a million views each, since his channel launched in late 2020. He's ranked every single Paul McCartney and John Lennon album - and has ranked every single Beatles biopic as well. His videos are some of the best Beatles content out there and are absolutely worth watching - you can subscribe to his channel, ElliotRobertsVideos.    Follow Elliot on Twitter: @ElliotRoberts5   If you like this episode, be sure to subscribe to this podcast! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Or click here for more information: Linktr.ee/BeatlesEarth   --- The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all timeand were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock 'n' roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's youth and sociocultural movements. Led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles evolved from Lennon's previous group, the Quarrymen, and built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over three years from 1960, initially with Stuart Sutcliffe playing bass. The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, together since 1958, went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their domestic success after signing to EMI Records and achieving their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962.   Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr all released solo albums in 1970. Their solo records sometimes involved one or more of the others; Starr's Ringo (1973) was the only album to include compositions and performances by all four ex-Beatles, albeit on separate songs. With Starr's participation, Harrison staged the Concert for Bangladesh in New York City in August 1971. Other than an unreleased jam session in 1974, later bootlegged as A Toot and a Snore in '74, Lennon and McCartney never recorded together again. Two double-LP sets of the Beatles' greatest hits, compiled by Klein, 1962–1966 and 1967–1970, were released in 1973, at first under the Apple Records imprint. Commonly known as the "Red Album" and "Blue Album", respectively, each has earned a Multi-Platinum certification in the US and a Platinum certification in the UK. Between 1976 and 1982, EMI/Capitol released a wave of compilation albums without input from the ex-Beatles, starting with the double-disc compilation Rock 'n' Roll Music. The only one to feature previously unreleased material was The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (1977); the first officially issued concert recordings by the group, it contained selections from two shows they played during their 1964 and 1965 US tours. The music and enduring fame of the Beatles were commercially exploited in various other ways, again often outside their creative control. In April 1974, the musical John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert, written by Willy Russell and featuring singer Barbara Dickson, opened in London. It included, with permission from Northern Songs, eleven Lennon-McCartney compositions and one by Harrison, "Here Comes the Sun". Displeased with the production's use of his song, Harrison withdrew his permission to use it.Later that year, the off-Broadway musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road opened. All This and World War II (1976) was an unorthodox nonfiction film that combined newsreel footage with covers of Beatles songs by performers ranging from Elton John and Keith Moon to the London Symphony Orchestra. The Broadway musical Beatlemania, an unauthorised nostalgia revue, opened in early 1977 and proved popular, spinning off five separate touring productions. In 1979, the band sued the producers, settling for several million dollars in damages. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), a musical film starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton, was a commercial failure and an "artistic fiasco", according to Ingham. Accompanying the wave of Beatles nostalgia and persistent reunion rumours in the US during the 1970s, several entrepreneurs made public offers to the Beatles for a reunion concert.Promoter Bill Sargent first offered the Beatles $10 million for a reunion concert in 1974. He raised his offer to $30 million in January 1976 and then to $50 million the following month. On 24 April 1976, during a broadcast of Saturday Night Live, producer Lorne Michaels jokingly offered the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on the show. Lennon and McCartney were watching the live broadcast at Lennon's apartment at the Dakota in New York, which was within driving distance of the NBC studio where the show was being broadcast. The former bandmates briefly entertained the idea of going to the studio and surprising Michaels by accepting his offer, but decided not to.

In Episode 415 of Things We Said Today, Ken Michaels, Allan Kozinn and Darren Devivo speak with Evans Mirageas, the artistic director of the Cincinnati Opera, about the company's decision to present “Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio” as a fully-staged opera during its 2024 Summer Festival. [The news segment runs from 2'12” to 9'30.” The interview with Evans follows.] The performances are July 18, 20, 21, 25 and 27, and the cast includes Andrew Owens as Shanty; Jacqueline Echols McCarley as Mary Dee; Kayleigh Decker as Miss Inkley, Chief Mourner and Nurse, and Kevin Short as Headmaster, Preacher and Mr. Dingle. The production is directed by Caroline Clegg, with sets and costumes by Leslie Travers. For more information: https://www.cincinnatiopera.org/liverpool-oratorio             As always, we welcome your thoughts about this episode of the show or any other episode. We invite you to send your comments about this or any of our other shows to our email address thingswesaidtodayradioshow@gmail.com, join our "Things We Said Today Beatles Fans" Facebook page and comment there, tweet us at @thingswesaidfab or catch us each on Facebook and give us your thoughts. And we thank you very much for listening. You can hear and download our show on Podbean, the Podbean app and iTunes and stream us through the Tune In Radio app and from our very own YouTube page.  Our shows appear every two weeks. Please be sure and write a (good, ideally!) review of our show on our iTunes page. If you subscribe to any of our program providers, you'll get the first word as soon as a new show is available. We don't want you to miss us. Our download numbers have been continually rising, as more people discover us and it's all because of you. So we thank you very much for your support!             Be sure to check out the video version of Things We Said Today on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zgHaPfL6BGmOX5NoyFE-A. The audio version can be found at Podbean: https://beatlesexaminer.podbean.com/ as well as at iHeart Radio, Apple podcasts and other distributors of fine podcasts.             MANY MANY WAYS TO CONTACT US:             Our email address: thingswesaidtodayradioshow@gmail.com             Twitter @thingswesaidfab             Facebook:  Things We Said Today video podcast      ALLAN on Facebook: Allan Kozinn or Allan Kozinn Remixed.             Allan's Twitter feed: @kozinn             The McCartney Legacy's website: https://www.mccartneylegacy.com/             The McCartney Legacy on Facebook: McCartney Legacy, and on Twitter: @McCARTNEYLEGACY             The McCartney Legacy YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8zaPoY45IxDZKRMf2Z6VyA             KEN's YouTube Channel, Ken Michaels Radio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq_Dkp6fkIsYwGq_vCwltyg             Ken's Website Beatles Trivia Page: https://www.kenmichaelsradio.com/beatles-trivia--games.html Ken's other podcast, Talk  More Talk: A Solo-Beatles Videocast You Tube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@talkmoretalksolobeatles             Ken's Weekly Beatles radio show "Every Little Thing" On Demand:  http://wfdu.fm/Listen/hd1%20recent%20archives/             Ken's e-mail:  everylittlething@att.net Ken's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ken.michaels.31/ DARREN's radio show can be heard 10pm to 2am Monday through Thursday and 1pm to 4pm Saturday on WFUV 90.7 FM (or 90.7 FM HD2), or at wfuv.org, or on the WFUV app.             Darren on Facebook: Darren DeVivo, and Darren DeVivo: WFUV DJ and Beatles Podcaster Darren's email: darrendevivo@wfmu.org

When music journalist Myles Clarkson visits ailing piano virtuoso Duncan Ely at his palatial California home, ostensibly to interview the man, Duncan notices something distinct about Myles:  his hands – they're beautiful, the bone structure perfect for a concert pianist.  Myles, it turns out, is a Juilliard-trained musician whose career tanked after receiving some bad reviews.  Taking an interest in Myles, Duncan introduces him to his artist daughter Roxanne. Soon Myles has entered the pianist's inner circle, much to the chagrin of Myles' wife, Paula, who feels more than a tinge of jealousy at the attention being paid to her husband.  But things are about to take a turn for the uncanny.  Roxanne casts a plaster life mask of Myles, and with Duncan on his way out, Myles donates blood to help him.  While Myles is asleep, something happens, and when he awakes, he's changed.  It's almost as if he's someone else. His urge to live, to love, to play music, is revived, leaving Paula to wonder:  just what, or who, is inhabiting the body of the man she loves? Intro, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:50Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 28:51-1:02:54Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:02:55-1:22:19 Director Paul WendkosScreenplay Ben Maddow, based on the novel by Fred Mustard StewartFeaturing Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Bradford Dillman, Pamelyn Ferdin, Curt Jurgens, Barbara Parkins, Kathleen Widdoes, William Windom David Cote is a playwright, opera librettist, and critic based in New York. His operas include Lucidity – which will be produced by On Site Opera in New York and Seattle Opera in fall 2024, Blind Injustice, which premiered at Cincinnati Opera and will be presented at Peak Performances at Montclair State University February 16 & 18. Other operas include Three Way at Nashville Opera and BAM; The Scarlet Ibis for the Prototype Festival; and 600 Square Feet with Cleveland Opera Theater. His plays include The Müch, Saint Joe, and Otherland. David wrote lyrics for Nkeiru Okoye's Black Lives Matter monodrama, Invitation to a Die-In and the dating-app song cycles In Real Life, composed by Robert Paterson. David's TV and theater coverage appears in The A.V. Club, Observer, 4 Columns, and American Theatre. He was the longest serving theater editor and chief drama critic of Time Out New York. He's also the author of popular companion books about the Broadway hits Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Spring Awakening, Jersey Boys, and Wicked. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from The Mephisto Waltz by Jerry Goldsmith. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

If you were to say "Figaro" three times in quick succession, I'm guessing most people would be able to sing it back to you as it is heard in Figaro's entrance aria, "Largo al factotum" in Rossini's The Barber of Seville. The opera has infiltrated popular culture from figure skating routines, to pasta commercials, and, of course, cartoons. It could be that The Barber of Seville was "pop culture" even when the play on which it was based premiered in 1775. For this special edition of Front Row Center, we'll talk with everyday folks about what comes to mind when they hear the name "The Barber of Seville" (@ 3:50), then I share some information about Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the playwright who seemed to have his pulse on the entire world (@9:30). After that I spoke with television, film, and theatrical hair and makeup artist Alfreda ("Fre") Howard about the importance of hair in society and working with hair of all types (@13:50). Finally, I was honored to speak with three legendary American interpreters of Rosina: Jennifer Larmore, Susanne Mentzer, and Frederica von Stade. They shared their thoughts on Rosina and pop culture, getting nervous before a performance, and what they like (or not) about getting their hair done (@20:50). This episode is based on a video I created for Cincinnati Opera in the summer of 2020, the first summer of the COVID crisis. You can find the complete video, including interviews, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGpA5mRO_Jk&t=3s. Don't forget to check out our Spotify Playlist for The Barber of Seville, which includes some of my favorite moments from the "giddy" score. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7CbDF2gz53LqihhkcgKbBX?si=9205b4d83c174cbe And, visit the episode poll on the Spotify episode homepage. As always, you can always reach out to me through my website, www.michaeljbolton.com, or email me at mike@michaeljbolton.com. Thanks for listening!

Discover how art can bridge cultural divides with our guest, Janice Liebenberg, Vice President of Equitable Arts Advancement at ArtsWave. ArtsWave is a non-profit with the first and largest community arts campaign in the country. You'll learn why Creativity Squared is a proud partner of the amazing work they do supporting over 150 arts organizations, projects, and independent artists.  Janice joined ArtsWave in 2014 and has helped the organization grow relationships with BIPOC artists, audiences, and donors. This includes establishing the region's largest annual grants program for Black and Brown arts organizations; developing ArtsWave's quarterly African American arts series called Flow; and leading its Black and Brown Artist Program with nearly 70 artists commissions to date.  Because it's important to support artists, 10% of all revenue Creativity Squared generates goes to ArtsWave and is earmarked for its Black and Brown Artist Program that Janice champions.  Janice was promoted to her newly created position to help make diversity, equity, inclusion, and access a hallmark of Greater Cincinnati's arts and culture sector.  Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Janice earned a bachelor's in Psychology from Northern Kentucky University. She serves on the Cincinnati Opera's Board of Directors and is the proud alumnus of We Lead, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber's Leadership Program. Since meeting Janice and partnering with ArtsWave for Creativity Squared, we continue to be impressed and inspired by what she and ArtsWave does to create a more vibrant and connected community through the arts. Today, fall in love with ArtsWave as well, especially after learning about their approach to art to bridge cultural divides and help build a more inclusive, equitable community. You'll also learn about their upcoming Truth and Healing Artist Showcase at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center taking place this July 14, 15, and 16. We'll also be interviewing all of the artists for the show, so this will be a nice preview.  EPISODE SHOW NOTES: https://creativitysquared.com/podcast/ep9-janice-liebenberg-art-bridges-cultural-divides/ JOIN CREATIVITY SQUARED Sign up for our free weekly newsletter: https://creativitysquared.com/newsletter  Become a premium member: https://creativitysquared.com/supporters  SUBSCRIBE Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform: https://creativitysquared.com Subscribe for more videos: https://youtube.com/@creativity_squared/?sub_confirmation=1 CONNECT with C^2 https://instagram.com/creativitysquaredpodcast https://facebook.com/CreativitySquaredPodcast https://giphy.com/channel/CreativitySquared https://tumblr.com/blog/creativitysquared https://tiktok.com/@creativitysquaredpodcast #CreativitySquared CONNECT with Helen Todd, the human behind C^2 https://instagram.com/helenstravels https://twitter.com/helenstravels https://linkedin.com/in/helentodd https://pinterest.com/helentodd Creativity Squared explores how creatives are collaborating with artificial intelligence in your inbox, on YouTube, and on your preferred podcast platform.  Because it's important to support artists, 10% of all revenue Creativity Squared generates will go to ArtsWave, a nationally recognized non-profit that supports over 150 arts organizations, projects, and artists. Creativity Squared is brought to you by Sociality Squared, a social media agency who understands the magic of bringing people together around what they value and love: http://socialitysquared.com.  #CincyArts #Innovation #Creativity #ArtistSupport #Creators #ContentCreation #Creatives #Artists #AIArtist #ContentCreators #ArtificialIntelligenceArt #DigitalCreativity #AIArt #AIArtists #ArtificialIntelligenceArt #AIArtCommunity #AIArtwork #GenerativeArt #DigitalArt #DigitalArtist #AIGeneratedArt #AICreative  #PodcastersOfInstagram #PodcastingLife #PodcastCommunity #TechPodcast #AIPodcast #PodcastHost

Entrevista con el tenor argentino/italiano Santiago Ballerini. Santiago está en Cincinnati, Ohio invitado por la Cincinnati Opera para participar en la temporada de la Cincinnati Ópera 2023. Santiago es "Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood" en la ópera trágica de Gaetano Donizetti, "Lucia di Lammermoor". La presentación de "Lucia di Lammermoor" de Cincinnati Opera son los días 22 y el 24 de junio 2023, 7:30 p.m. Boletos: www.cincinnatiopera.org/2023-summer-festival Santiago es reconocido como uno de los principales tenores del repertorio de Bel Canto, habiendo actuado en muchos de los principales orquestas internacionales y teatros de ópera del mundo. Santiago conversa con Lorena Mora-Mowry sobre sus inicios, cómo aprendía sobre ópera mientras trabajaba como musicoterapeuta en terapeuta en Argentina. Santiago también nos habla sobre cómo su participación como "Ernesto" de la ópera "Don Pasquale" le abrió las puertas como tenor. Santiago habla también sobre su experiencia con el legendario barítono Sherrill Milnes. Santiago se considera un constructor, un romántico empedernido y un ser enamorado de la vida. Santiago habla cómo la paciencia lo ha ayudado a una carrera bastante difícil y solitaria. Para Santiago participar en la Cincinnati Opera es cumplir unos de sus sueños y cómo se ha preparado para ser " Edgardo" de la ópera "Lucia di Lammermoor" presentado por la Cincinnati Opera.

In The Knock military wives gather awaiting news of a tragic event.

Kevin Newbury is an award winning theater, opera & film director. His work has been featured on PBS GREAT PERFORMANCES, and his work has been celebrated at Cincinnati Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Carnegie Hall & The Kennedy Center.   Brandon Kazen-Maddox is a dancer, director and American sign language artist.  His work as an interpreter has been featured on CNN. In this episode, Kevin and Brandon talk in depth about the founding of the Up Until Now Collective, a New York City based artist collective committed to inclusive, accessible, and equitable working environments.  They talk about their new vision for Andrew Lippas THE WILD PARTY, the day they met, and how their collaboration started at a camp in New Hampshire during covid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/X562TchJuok Versatile singer/actor Damon Evans is a native of Baltimore, MD. He is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Brooklyn College where he majored in Africana Studies. He has had an active career on Broadway, Television, and Classical Music. Most American audiences are familiar with his work as an actor on the popular tv sitcom The Jeffersons. He also portrayed Alex Hailey in the mini-series Roots: The Next Generation which is still considered one of the ten most watched mini-series in television history. Prior to his television work he appeared on Broadway in such shows as The Me Nobody Knows, Via Galactica, Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope, and Lost in the Stars. On stage he has toured with Pearl Bailey in Hello Dolly and became the first African-American actor/singer to portray the role of Jesus Christ in the authorized production of Jesus Christ Superstar. He has also appeared on the London stage in Carmen Jones for which he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He was also active in the Classical Music and has appeared at the New York City Opera, the Tulsa Opera, The Cincinnati Opera, the Virginia Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, the Royal Opera in London, and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. He has appeared as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Boston Pops and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra amongst others. He has also recorded for EMI Records, Chandos Records, and Dorian Records. He's taught Voice and Musical Theater at Marymount Manhattan College and currently resides in Queens, NY with his husband and two dogs Princeton and Seewee.

La aclamada directora de escena Crystal Manic conversa con Lorena Mora-Mowry sobre su pasión por la ópera, de su trayectoria como directora de escena de más de 65 producciones de óperas, de sus producciones de cine y videos musicales. Crystal Manich es la directora de escena de la producción de Cincinnati Opera de la ópera de Giuseppe Verdi "Aida" habla sobre su visión de "Aida", su deseo de captar una nueva audiencia y al final comparte un mensaje para la comunidad hispana de Ohio y de los EE. UU> La producción de la Cincinnati Opera de Aida se presentará el 22, 26 & 29, 2022 a las 7:30 P.M. y el 31 de julio del 2022 a las 3:00 P.M. en el Music Hall.

The opera "Fierce" tells the stories of four teenage girls, their struggles and their transformative journey toward empowerment.

I can't express how much I relished the opportunity to talk with author Sheila Williams! Juanita, the movie based on her book Dancing on the Edge of the Roof, made me seek her out for a conversation. During our conversation, I learned about Fierce - her first opera and what a librettist does! It debuts in July 2022 as part of the Cincinnati Opera. I've got tickets. I also have a hankering to see Fierce performed where I live now (Grand Rapids, MI) and where I grew up (Detroit, MI). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mursalata-muhammad/message

Conversation with Evan Mirageas, the Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera about the 2022 Summer Festival. For tickets please visit cincinnatiopera.org or by calling (513) 241-2742 (M-F 12-5 PM)

Julie Goodman (CEO of Indy Arts Council) and her team demonstrated inspiring leadership in 2020-2021, providing advocacy and millions of dollars in financial support to keep literally thousands of artists in Indianapolis working during the height of the pandemic. In this interview, we hear about Julie's background as a musician and as a communications/PR professional, and how her path led her to leadership positions with organizations including the Cincinnati Opera, ArtWorks (which oversees Cincinnati's public art program), and many others. Julie returned to her native Indianapolis in 2017, and she became CEO of Indy Arts Council in 2019. Julie believes that Indianapolis in 2022 is primed to fully embrace a more inclusive, creative economy and you hear it in our conversation, which I hope you enjoy.

Instagram: @josephparrishh • Joseph Parrish previously performed operatic roles with the Asheville Lyric Opera as well as the Cincinnati Opera. He already holds a degree from Cincinnati's Conservatory of Music and is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School.

Maestro Ramón Tebar conversa con Lorena Mora-Mowry sobre su regreso a la Sexta Temporada Sinfónica de Cincinnati Opera con Carmen. La reposición de la ópera de Bizet se presentará en el Summit Park el 17, 22, 26 y 30 de Julio del 2021. Boletos & Información: (513) 241-2742 o visitando www.cincinnatiopera.org. Sobre la ópera Carmen: "Si el deseo es la chispa del amor, entonces Carmen ha encendido mil infiernos. Carmen, la mujer fatal por excelencia de la ópera, nos muestra que ella es eso y mucho más: una fuerza de la naturaleza intrépida y coqueta que se niega a responder a nadie más que a sí misma. Su confianza atrae la atención de Don José, cuya pasión se convierte en obsesión y luego se convierte en una espiral de locura. Cuando José amenaza a Carmen con la muerte si ella lo rechaza, ella elige la libertad por encima de todo. Con algunas de las melodías más conocidas de la ópera, desde la sensual "Habanera" hasta la conmovedora "Canción del Toreador", Carmen es una oda eterna a la feroz independencia de una mujer." (Fuente: Cincinnati Opera) Sobre el compositor Georges Bizet: Más conocido por sus óperas en una carrera interrumpida por su temprana muerte, Bizet logró pocos éxitos antes de su obra final, Carmen, que se ha convertido en una de las obras más populares y representadas con frecuencia en todo el repertorio de ópera. Sobre el Maestro Ramón Tebar Sáiz es director y pianista, actualmente director titular de Florida Grand Opera. Es director artístico de la Ópera de Nápoles. Fue Director Musical del Festival de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. En marzo de 2015, fue nombrado Director Principal Invitado del Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia de España.

The Cello Sherpa Podcast Host, Joel Dallow, interviews Evans Mirageas for a behind the scenes look at how the sausage is made.If you are looking for in person/virtual cello lessons, or orchestral repertoire audition coachings, check out www.theCelloSherpa.comFollow us on twitter @theCello Sherpa

Carlos Garcia Leon from the CIncinnati Opera gives an update on what's happening for the summer opera season. Carlos also shares a live reading of their poetry and shares their experience about writing and performing poetry in Cincinnati.

Welcome to JazzPianoSkills; a unique Jazz Piano Program dedicated to introducing aspiring jazz pianists to essential Jazz Piano skills. Each Podcast Episode will help you successfully Discover, Learn, and Play a specific Jazz Piano skill.This Jazz Piano Lesson will help you Discover, Learn, Play jazz piano with special guest Dr. William Menefield.Dr. William Menefield, an active performer and composer, is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Iowa. His eclectic sound of jazz, R&B, soul, and classical, draws the audience in with each note, in every song, at all performances. The Cincinnati native flawlessly and creatively blends the influences of Stevie Wonder with Beethoven and Kenny Kirkland with Bach. He is seen as "a leader whose playing is nothing short of breathtaking" (CityBeat). His distinctive style creates a sound that is uniquely robust and smooth.   Dr. Menefield has shared the stage with Roy Ayers, Clark Terry, David “Fathead” Newman, Gary Bartz, John Blake, Don Braden, Steve Wilson, Javon Jackson, and a host of other outstanding musicians. In 2018, he served as musical director for Jennifer Holliday and participated on the creative team that produced music for the pilot episode of the HBO television series The Watchmen. He continues to perform at venues across the United States and the world, most recently performing in Namibia and Guatemala. He also traveled as a performer/presenter on the university tour, 400: An Afrikan Epic, with the Mark Lomax Quartet (2019-2020).William's journey in music composition began early, at the age of eight, in response to his mother’s removal of all televisions from their home. His passion for composing inspired him to earn music composition degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (BM, 2005) and The University of Texas at Austin (DMA, 2011).Dr. Menefield is currently working on commissions for the Cincinnati Opera, including the new opera, Fierce, with librettist Sheila Williams and dramaturg D. Lynn Meyer (set to debut in the summer of 2021). In 2020, he was also commissioned by Dr. Victoria Holland, lyric soprano and vocal coach at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, to compose the five-part song cycle, Here. In the spring of 2019, he had his Carnegie Hall debut with the performance of his choral-orchestral work Prism, commissioned by the Young Professionals Choral Collective. His children's choir piece, My Melody, commissioned by The Society for the Preservation of Music Hall, was performed at the 125th-anniversary celebration of Cincinnati Music Hall in 2003.Discover: How Dr. Menefield approaches the study of Jazz PianoLearn: How Dr. Menefield approaches the study of jazz to continually improve his jazz piano skillsPlay:  Jazz Piano using the various approaches that Dr. Menefield teaches in the classroom at the University of IowaThanks for being a JazzPianoSkills listener!Support the show (https://jazzpianoskills.store/amember/signup/jTVzsu3e)Support the show (https://jazzpianoskills.store/amember/signup/jTVzsu3e)

He is director of orchestral studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he has been for over 20 years. He has guest conducted orchestras and opera companies all over the United States and the world, and has traveled just as far to teach master classes, conducting workshops, and conduct student orchestras. Most recently, he was appointed head of the Conducting Institute at the Miami Music Festival. In 2017, Oxford University Press published his book _The Beat Stops Here_ to critical acclaim, and he is currently working on the 8th edition of _The Modern Conductor_. His premiere recording of the Gregory Spears' opera _Fellow Travelers_, performed with the Cincinnati Opera in 2017, can be found on IDAGIO and Apple Music, and pandemic conditions allowing, he will be on a podium in Cincinnati this season. Maestro Mark Gibson joins me for this episode of the American Muse podcast!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/american-muse-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Please welcome Jo Rowan and Associate Dean Melanie Shelley from my Alma Mater!Both inspirations to me and my growth as a dancer, I am excited to share their expertise and values at OCU. Jo is the head of the dance department and has been since 1981. Dean Melanie attended school their shortly after and they have been a team ever since. Melanie Shelley, Associate Dean and Professor of Arts Management, has served the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management in many capacities over three decades. She enjoys working with dance and entertainment business students as the Student Success Coordinator and preparing students for professional careers. Dean Shelley serves as Costume Consultant, choreographer, company manager, and professor at OCU. Her choreography has been performed both in the United States and internationally, in Beijing and Taipei, China and her costume designs have been included in the New York City Toy Show. Dean Shelley has been named to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers for multiple years, was named Oklahoma City University’s Exemplary Teacher of the Year for 2000, and served as Faculty Fellow and Interim Chair of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Oklahoma City University’s Academic Affairs Office in 2006-2007.-------------------------------------------Jo Rowan is a nationally known master ballet teacher and performer and is professor of dance and chairman of the Dance Department within Oklahoma City University’s Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment.Rowan, who was trained at the School of American Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, holds degrees in design and dance from University of Cincinnati and has performed with Cincinnati Ballet, Dallas Ballet, Garden State Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Dallas Opera, Philadelphia Opera, Tulsa Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and as a soloist at Radio City Music Hall. She has been a guest artist with the Baltimore Symphony, Kansas City Philharmonic, and Cincinnati Symphony orchestras. A member of Actors’ Equity Association, Rowan has appeared in more than 60 musicals. She has performed in New York City, as well as at Actors Theatre in Louisville, Maine State Theatre, Playhouse in the Park, Kansas City Civic Center, and Kansas City Starlight Theatre, to name a few. She has also appeared in numerous television commercials and was a regular on the PBS TV show, Consumer Survival Kit. Rowan performed at Lyric Theatre in Grand Hotel as ballerina Grushinskaya and recently choreographed the Dream Ballet in Lyric’s production of Oklahoma!. She was the chief researcher for How To Make It In Musicals, Michael Allen’s authoritative book on developing a successful career as a musical theatre performer.Formerly ballet mistress of Dallas Ballet, Rowan has taught for all major dance organizations in the United States and has been invited to serve as an Artist-in-Residence for Oklahoma. She has conducted master classes at the St. Louis and Detroit Tap Festivals, has toured America as a ballerina with Dance Olympus, has taught for Dance America and Boston Ballet, and has adjudicated for the North American Ballet Festival Competition in Boston and the State of Tennessee’s Individual Artist Fellowship Award in Dance-Choreography.In both 2018 and 2019 Rowan was selected as one of the Journal Record's 50 Making a Difference during "The Woman of the Year" event. In April of this year, Rowan received The Governor's Arts Award in recognition of her longtime leadership and significant contributions to the arts across Oklahoma.Support the show (https://www.instadancecoach.com/thank-you-for-supporting-my-podcast-colleges-and-careers/)

The Cincinnati Opera recently held auditions for its 2021 Summer Festival Chorus. In any typical year, the event would bring dozens of singers to Music Hall, performing nearly back-to-back for several days in a row. This is anything but a typical year.

Baritone, Gabriel Preisser, discusses baritone technique for navigating the passaggio. He goes deep into the dangers of muscling the sound as a young baritone, and explaining the voice turning over. Gabe has sung over 40 operatic and musical theatre roles in companies like Minnesota Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and Michigan Opera Theatre, in roles such as Danillo, Figaro, Billy Bigelow, and Dandini. In 2020 he sang with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project which won the Grammy-Award for best new opera recording. WATCH Gabe in action: https://youtu.be/q1B4WUA6jAU Voice with Julia's #techniquetalks is where we demystify conversations surrounding vocal technique with behind-the-scenes access to great singers of today. Forget what you thought you knew about singing from your pedagogy textbook. In this series, singers get real about what works, and what doesn't. Get inspired. Try these tips. Use your judgement. Show Notes: 6:20 Gabe discusses how he gets his voice working all-day-everyday – Technique + consistent skills 10:00 Difference between head voice, falsetto, and chest voice 12:30 Turning over the voice (what/how) 15:30 Gabe discusses the vowels that help turn over the passaggio 18:12 Gabe discusses tongue position when turning over 19:50 Gabe discusses exercises to build up breath system 24:30 Gabe discusses body alignment/posture (alexander technique, yoga) 29:50 Gabe discusses how to sing Largo as a baritone (high notes and patter/articulation) 33:23 Gabe discusses high notes and vowels 38:40 Gabe discusses low notes 41:35 Gabe discusses whistle tone vs. Falsetto 43:47 Gabe discusses coloratura 46:50 Gabe discusses contemporary vocal technique Repertoire, and cross-over 50:54 Gabe discusses hooking 52:07 Gabe discuses his most challenging cross-over role 53:30 Gabe discusses his favorite baritone vocally ❤️  JOIN my FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/techniquetalksforsingers/ ❤️  Subscribe to never miss a video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGibxkvaN8KVff0ztzYznMg ❤️  More at https://www.voicewithjulia.com ❤️  To stay in the know, and gain behind-the-scenes access to upcoming guests: https://www.voicewithjulia.com/techniquetalks/ ❤️  More at https://www.voicewithjulia.com  ❤️  Instagram: @voicewithjulia  ❤️  Facebook: Voice With Julia

Enjoy a conversation with Evans Mirageas, the Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera, to hear about the Opera’s glittering first century and what lies ahead in the next 100 years.

On OUT Cincinnati Melissa talks with opera singer, actor, and baker Will M Reed who clues us in on what’s happening with the Cincinnati Opera and how you can still see opera performances in the Queen City. Will shares stories about his adventures with his long time spouse, famous drag performer Tony Cody, also known as Penny Tration from Season 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Birgit Nillson was a 20th-century Swedish dramatic soprano famous for her renditions of the works of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.Rudolph Bing was an Austrian opera impresario (producer) who worked around the world. He notably served as the General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.The first (old) Metropolitan Opera House in New York was located on Broadway but was demolished in 1967. The current (new) Metropolitan Opera House is located in Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side.La fanciulla del West (1910) is an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (Hamburg College for Music and Theatre) is a large public university of music in Hamburg, Germany.Rolf Liebermann was a Swiss composer and music administrator who served as the Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Paris Opera.Judith Blegen is an American operatic soprano.La voix humaine (1959) is a one-act opera by 20th-century French composer Francis Poulenc.In July 1980, a 30-year-old violinist named Helen Mintiks was murdered during the intermission of a performance at the Metropolitan Opera. Read more here.Guarino refers to “Jimmy,” or James Levine, a Cincinnati-born opera conductor who became the Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera. He was notably terminated from this position in 2018 over sexual assault allegations that he denies.John Dexter was an English theatre, opera, and film director. Guarino mentions his production of French composer Francis Poulenc’s opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1956).Franco Zeffirelli was an Italian director and producer of opera, films, and television. Many of his opera productions are still in use today around the world.Margarete Wallmann was a German ballerina, choreographer, set designer, and opera director.Rhoda Levine is an American opera director, choreographer, and professor.Francesca Zambello is an American opera and theatre director who currently serves as director of the Glimmerglass Festival and Washington National Opera.Ricky Ian Gordon is a contemporary American composer.Fiora Contino was an American opera conductor and teacher.Jean-Pierre Ponnelle was a 20th-century French opera director and scenic designer.Dawn Upshaw is an American operatic soprano.Robert Wilson is an American experimental theatre director and playwright.The 19th-century Viennese composer W.A. Mozart frequently collaborated with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, such as for their opera The Marriage of Figaro (1786).Blind Injustice was an opera by composer *** and librettist *** which premiered at Cincinnati Opera in 2019.Patricia (“Patty”) K. Beggs was the General Director of Cincinnati Opera from 1997 to 2019.Opera Fusion: New Works (OF:NW) is a partnership between Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music focused on fostering contemporary American opera.In 2011, Doubt by composer Douglas J Cuomo and librettist John Patrick Shirley became the first project workshopped by OF:NW. The opera premiered at Minnesota Opera in 2013.Fellow Travelers by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Gregory Pierce is another opera that participated in OF:NW in 2013. Cincinnati Opera premiered the work in 2015. Hear Fellow Travelers composer Gregory Spears talk about the work on a previous episode of Inside Opera.Castor and Patience by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Tracy K. Smith participated in OF:NW in 2019. Cincinnati Opera will premiere the work as part of its 2021 Summer Festival. Hear Castor and Patience composer Gregory Spears talk about the work on a previous episode of Inside Opera.Rachel Maddow is an American television program host and political commentator, known for the nightly Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC.Joni Mitchell is a critically acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter.Bob Dylan is a Nobel Prize-winning American singer-songwriter.

The Damnation of Faust (La damnation de Faust) is a work by 19th-century French composer Hector Berlioz for four solo voices, chorus, children’s chorus, and orchestra based on German Romantic poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust.Santiago del Estero is a province and city in northern Argentina.Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru.Carlos Gardel was a French Argentine singer notable for his tango compositions and hundreds of recordings of tango pieces.Loons are aquatic birds found in North America and northern Eurasia.The Peruvian panpipe (Andean panpipe or siku) is a traditional flute-like instrument associated with music from the Qullasuyu region of the Andean Mountains of South America.Ella Fitzgerald was one of the best-known American jazz singers of the 20th century.Frank Sinatra was an American singer and actor who is one of the best-selling musicians of all time.Fred Astaire was an American dancer, singer, actor, and choreographer most noted for work in film and television.Gene Kelly was an American actor, dancer, and director known for his lead roles in Singin’ in the Rain and An American in Paris.Located near Lincoln Center in New York City, LaGuardia High School is a public magnet high school focusing in the visual and performing arts.Marilyn Horne is an American mezzo-soprano and music pedagogue.Matthew Epstein is a prominent artistic advisor and artist manager within the opera community.Der Rosenkavalier is a frequently performed comic opera by German composer Richard Strauss.A pants role (or trouser role) is a character which is performed by a woman in traditionally masculine clothing. Some examples of these roles include Cherubino from W.A. Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Count Ottavio from Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.Dorabella is a principle soprano role from W.A. Mozart’s comic opera Così fan tutte.Marnie is an opera by contemporary American composer Nico Muhly based on Winston Graham’s 1961 novel by the same name. Notably, Alfred Hitchcock directed a film adaptation of the same novel. Leonard performed the title role in the U.S. premiere of the operatic adaptation at the Metropolitan Opera in 2018.Coal Mountain is an opera by contemporary American composer Jennifer Higdon surrounding the American Civil War.The Fach system is a method of categorizing singers’ voices into specific “types.” Not all musicians agree with every aspect of the system, however it is a commonly used tool for understanding the range, weight, and color of a singer’s voice.Rosina is a principle soprano role in Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera The Barber of Seville. Leonard will perform this role in Cincinnati Opera’s 2021 Summer Festival.Edith Bers was a member of the voice faculty at The Julliard School.White Fragility is a book by Robin DiAngelo about systemic racism in the United States.Trevor Noah is a South African comedian and political commentator known for being the current host of the satirical The Daily Show.The Hardy Boys is a series of mystery novels for children written under the name Franklin W. Dixon.Schitt’s Creek is an acclaimed Canadian television sitcom.

Marie Kondo, an organizing consultant and author most famous for her Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, uses a methodical approach to help people clean and organize their spaces. She is most known for asking people if an item “sparks joy” in their life.Martha Graham was a choreographer and American modern dancer whose technique is still taught around the world.Soprano Adele Addison was an early voice teacher for Trevigne at the Manhattan School of Music.Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Ned Rorem occasionally observed Trevigne’s lessons with Adele Addison.Tenor George Shirley and mezzo-soprano Hilda Harris were other early mentors for Trevigne.Choral conductor Robert Shaw is notable for bringing black vocalists, like soprano Adele Addison and tenor Seth McCoy, to the spotlight from the 1940s through the 1970s.During her senior year of high school, Trevigne sang the soprano solo in one of Gabriel Fauré’s most notable works Requiem.James Gandre, the former Dean of Admissions at the Manhattan School of Music, is now the President of the School.Early in her career, Trevigne sang under notable American conductor Julius Rudel.Adele Addison gave Trevigne original manuscripts of the French composer, conductor, and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger.George Szell, the former Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra once famously noted: “The Cleveland Orchestra plays seven concerts a week, and admits the public to the final two. We do some of our best playing in rehearsals.”Trevigne has worked closely with contemporary American composer Jake Heggie. She starred as Pip in Heggie’s operatic rendition of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby-Dick.A sitzprobe (German for “seated rehearsal”) is an opera or musical theatre rehearsal in which the vocalists sing with the orchestra—usually for the first time.concert:nova is a contemporary music ensemble based in Cincinnati, Ohio.Trevigne will perform the role of Patience in Cincinnati Opera’s world premiere production of Castor and Patience in the summer of 2021.Trevigne frequently watches the English television dramas Grantchester and Father Brown.Trevigne finds the following mobile applications useful: Gamechanger (for keeping tabs on her son’s baseball games), Beachbody (for exercising), and Stash (for investing).Trevigne enjoys eating at Conscious Kitchen in Cincinnati because they accommodate her alkaline vegan diet—a diet which does not allow any animal products, processed foods, coffee, and most grains.Outside of classical music, Trevigne listens to hip-hop (she mentions the artist Drake) and country music.

Cincinnati Opera, at the time known as Cincinnati Summer Opera, performed at the Cincinnati Zoo for its first 51 seasons (1920-1972).Effron recalls a memory of seeing Giacomo Puccini’s grand opera La bohème with Licia Albanese at the Cincinnati Zoo.Italian-born American conductor Fausto Cleva was the Musical Director of the Cincinnati Summer Opera from 1934 until 1963. He was also Effron’s “first hero.”Sigmund Effron, David Effron’s father, was the concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra from 1946 to 1973.George Szell, Music Director and Conductor of the The Cleveland Orchestra, tried to recruit Sigmund Effron to join his symphony.After a performance of Charles Gonoud’s Faust at Cincinnati Summer Opera, American tenor Eugene Conley honored Sigmund Effron by allowing him to bow by himself (a “solo bow”) due to the skill with which he played the work’s notable violin solo.Sigmund Effron studied with Robert Perutz, a renowned Polish violinist who was based in Cincinnati.James Levine is a conductor and accompanist from Cincinnati. He served as the Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera until he was notably terminated in 2018 over sexual assault allegations that he denies.Josef Blatt was a professor of conducting at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.Famed conductor Tibor Kozma allowed David Effron to conduct operas during his graduate study at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.Effron tells the story of one unfortunate performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto at New York City Opera featuring soprano Gianna Rolandi, mezzo-soprano Jane Shalos, baritone Richard Fredricks, and an unnamed tenor.A Hochschule is an institution of higher education within German-speaking countries.Effron served as the assistant to German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch at Cologne Opera.Hugh Thompson and Tito Capobianco were both notable opera directors, though Thompson was better known as a lyric baritone with 238 performances at the Metropolitan Opera.Beverly Sills, Plácido Domingo, and Norman Treigle all performed in a production of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffman at New York City Opera.Hamilton: An American Musical is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda about the life, career, and death of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Musically, it pulls from genres as varied as hip hop, R&B, pop, soul, and traditional show tunes.Benita Valente is a renowned American soprano from California.WhatsApp is a mobile application popularly used for text messaging and calling in countries outside of the US.

Tzykun designed the set for Cincinnati Opera’s world premiere of Fellow Travelers by Gregory Spears in 2016. That production was directed by Kevin Newberry.Dramaturgy is the research involved to better understand a theatrical work before it is produced. While dramaturgy may be practiced by a professional dramaturg, often directors, designers, and performers participate in their own research to better inform their artistic decisions.Tzykun designed a production of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter Journey, 1828), a set of German art songs for voice and piano. The singer in this production was baritone David Adam Moore, Tzykun’s partner. The two are set to record a film version of this production at Austin Opera in the coming weeks.Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Tzykun had designed the world premiere production of Edward Tulane at Minnesota Opera. Moore was performing in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Hungarian State Opera at this time. However, like many live performing arts, these productions were cancelled in order to promote social distancing and reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus.Tzykun and Moore founded an New York City-based art collective called GLMMR.Tzykun will design the set for Cincinnati Opera’s 2021 premiere of Castor and Patience.Tzykun often reads Israeli author and “macro-historian” Yuval Noah Harari who wrote Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.Recently, Tzykun has watched the television miniseries Unorthodox on Netflix which revolves around a Hasidic Jewish community in New York City. She listens to the podcast Artificial Intelligence by Lex Fridman about the connections between technology and humanity.Tzykun notes that the following non-Classical artists are influential to her: film composer Nina Rota, Brazilian folk artist Cesária Évora, American singer-songwriter Erykah Badu, American hip-hop artist Lauryn Hill, Swedish electronic group iamamiwhoami, Canadian pop artist Grimes, Icelandic art pop artist Björk, and Early Music composers Claudio Monteverdi, Hildegard von Bingen, and Johannes Ockeghem.

The Prototype Festival is a contemporary opera festival in New York CityThe New Opera Showcase is a contemporary opera showcase sponsored by Opera America and Trinity Wall Street CathedralCandillari studied piano in Graz, AustriaOlivier Messiaen is a 20th-century French composerCandillari’s grandmother performed the titular role in Georges Bizet’s Carmen at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia. Candillari was also born in this city, which is the second-largest city in present-day Serbia.La Traviata is a grand opera by Giuseppe VerdiCandillari studied jazz at Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, INA Hochschule is an institution of higher education within German-speaking countriesAt age six, she became “obsessed” with the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin by Hungarian composer Emmerich KálmánFranz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow takes place in the fictional state of Pontevedro, a thinly veiled reference to the real-life principality of Montenegro.David Baker was the Director of Jazz Studies at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of MusicEvans references a concert he saw at Symphony Hall Boston with jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton & Handel and Hayden SocietyCarnegie Hall (New York) and Wigmore Hall (London) are two well-known classical music venuesCandillari became the Head Coach at the Slovene National Theatre in Maribor, SloveniaCosì fan tutte is an opera buffa (a kind of comedic opera) by Wolfgang Amadeus MozartRecitative is a musical style primarily used in baroque and classical vocal music (namely opera and oratorio) that highlights narrative storytelling.Candillari’s husband, Nick Schwartz, is the bass trombonist of the New York City Ballet.Rusalka is an opera by Antonín Dvořák and was programmed as part of Cincinnati Opera’s 2020 season. Evans also references his Symphony No. 7 which was inspired by composer Johannes Brahms.Contemporary opera Fellow Travelers by Gregory Spears references the music of French troubadours of the Middle AgesMusical Composition: Craft and Art is a book by Alan BelkinMind Over Finger is a podcast about music performance.W1A is a British comedy TV showArthur Rubinstein once famously noted, “Don’t practice too much.”Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the adult animated TV series Family Guy, is also a jazz singer.

Today we are celebrating MSE’s 50th episode with special guest, Calesta (Callie) Day!!! In this episode, we discuss growing up as PK’s, her career, challenges she’s had along the way, facts people may not know, and she even sings for us! She is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. She has performed with the Miami University Opera, the Cincinnati Opera, the Bowling Green State Opera, the University of Kentucky Opera and in recent years, a touring member of the American Spiritual Ensemble. She has traveled extensively performing across the nation, and in Europe and Central America. Recently, Callie has taken social media by storm as fans all over the United States have captured her amazing voice in videos that have instantly gone viral! Even before then, many had already witnessed her gifts in churches and schools where she's taught and served, especially in her local Walmart where she was featured as the "Singing Pharmacy Tech" on several commercial videos. In August 2016, Callie released her 1st single, "Hear My Prayer", a Moses Hogan composition arranged by Callie Day, Lan Wilson, G. LeRon Rainey, and Mark Lacy. Her freshman album was released on April 14, 2017 and is available on Apple Music, Itunes, Google Play and Amazon. Callie premiered and debut in PLAY, the first piece created for the Paris Opera Ballet by the Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman in December 2017 at the Palais Garnier Opera House. Currently, Callie is completing her second year as Artist In Resident in voice at HBCU Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky. On August 6, 2019, Callie was a contestant on America's Got Talent Season 14 were she made it all the way to the judge cuts with celebrity guest judge; Jay Leno. Callie received the Associates degree from Sinclair Community College in Vocal Performance, the Bachelors degree from Bowling Green State University in Vocal Performance, the Masters degree in Education with a Music Concentration from University of Dayton. Callie is also currently a candidate for the Masters of Fine Arts (Miami University, OH) and Doctor of Music degrees (University of Kentucky). Her doctoral project is "Exploring The Role Of African American Opera Singers In The Establishment Of The Spiritual As A Musicial Art Form From 1900 to 1920.” Visit https://artistecard.com/callieday to support and stay connected with Psalmist Callie Day! Join MSE’s growing podcast community on social media Instagram and Facebook: @msepodcast. Visit bygracenp.com to see more and you can also tune in through the free By Grace Not Perfection mobile app on Apple and Android devices. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/myse/support

The hair salons are opening and Chris and Melissa are changing up their hairstyles after months without a visit to a stylist. Chris talks to Carlos Garcia Leon from the Cincinnati Opera, and OUT Cincinnati focuses on the effect of the pandemic on local small businesses...Chris talks to the owners of Good Judy's and Mad Llama Coffee Shop,

What if you could stop trying to bring customers to your product and instead started bringing your product to customers? That's exactly what Chris Milligan, CEO of the Cincinnati Opera did. I'm having him back on the show today to share the amazing story of how he put opera on wheels and made it relevant to everyone from inner-city students to Whole Foods shoppers. He's a genius of creating marketing that meets people where they are and brings a community together, and his stories and strategies will both inspire and equip you to do the same.  To learn more about spending an in-person VIP Day with Curtis: http://bit.ly/vipcurtis  Visit Curtis' website, and sign up to get a free Living the Dream wristband: https://curtiszimmerman.com/ Or, sign up to get Curtis' Write a New Script e-workbook for FREE: https://curtiszimmerman.com/newscript/ Explore Cincinnati Opera: https://www.cincinnatiopera.org/

In the same way that crazy-makers will pull you down, being friends with healthy, whole people will take your life to the next level. In this episode, you'll hear a conversation between me and a great friend of mine, Chris Milligan. Chris is the CEO of the Cincinnati Opera, as well as being one of the smartest people I know. Listen in to hear the crazy story of how we met, how to turn a mistake into a standing ovation, the values Chris lives by that I know are the reason for his success, and how you can level-up your friendships to make both you and your friends better people and professionals.  Learn more about spending an in-person VIP Day with Curtis: http://bit.ly/vipcurtis  Visit Curtis' website, and sign up to get a free Living the Dream wristband: https://curtiszimmerman.com/ Or, sign up to get Curtis' Write a New Script e-workbook for FREE: https://curtiszimmerman.com/newscript/

The beloved American Opera, Porgy and Bess, is having quite the season with sold out and added performances at the Met, and a wildly successful run at Cincinnati Opera. The Opera After Dark team traveled to Cincinnati last July to take in the company's magnificent production while learning more about the opera from some of the singers portraying its staring roles. We're thrilled to share the experience with you in this episode.

The Travelling Entertainer goes to the opera! Our guest is non other than Robert Pomakov, musician and internationally performing Opera Singer!In the 2019-2020 season, Canadian bass Robert Pomakov makes a number of important house debuts including debuts with Opéra National de Paris as the Bonze in Madama Butterfly directed by Robert Wilson, Den Norske Opera as Gremin in Christof Loy’s production Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin , and Cincinnati Opera as Vodník in Rusalka. He returns to the Metropolitan Opera to cover the roles of Fiesco in Simon Boccenegra and Timur in Turandot. Concert engagements include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Calgary Philharmonic under the baton of Music Director Rune Bergmann.Mr. Pomakov has been a prize winner in several of the world's premier singing competitions: a finalist in the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Belgium, second place at the Belvedere Competition in Vienna and third place in Plácido Domingo's Operalia. Mr. Pomakov was decorated with the Simeon, the First Honorary Medal from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria, and with a diploma from the Minister of Culture for his achievements in opera's art and special merit to Bulgarian culture and its dissemination all over the world, an encouragement award in the George London Foundation Competition, an world. Other prizes have included first prize in the Oratorio Society of New York's completion, an award from the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition, the Victoria Scholars Grant, Second Prize in the Canadian Music Competition, and First Prize in the Kiwanis Music Festival in Toronto. Pomakov is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music.

Palm Beach Opera Vocal CompetitionRenata Scotto is an Italian soprano and opera director.Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano DonizettiValència is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-largest city in Spain.Montserrat Caballé was a Spanish operatic soprano.Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.Robert Schumann a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic.The Spoleto Festival (Festival dei Due Mondi) is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy, since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958.Opera Idol was an annual opera competition for amateur singers run by Cincinnati Opera.Ainadamar is the first opera by Argentinian composer Osval do Golijov.Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Mozart.Don Carlos is a grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi.Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age.Manuel de Falla was a Spanish composer.Francisco Albéniz was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor.Reynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan, naturalized French, composer, conductor, music critic, diarist, theatre director, and salon singer.Enrique Granados was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music.Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.Tomás Luis de Victoria was the most famous composer in 16th-century Spain, and was one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation, along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.Antonio de Cabezón was a Spanish Renaissance composer and organist.Martín y Soler was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure now, in his own day he was compared favorably with his contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as a composer of opera buffa.Luigi Boccherini was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers.Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer.Farinelli was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi, a celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera.The Vienna State Opera is an Austrian opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria.Otto Klemperer was a Jewish German-born conductor and composer, described as "the last of the few really great conductors of his generation."Bruno Walter was a German-born conductor, pianist and composer.Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years.The Spanish National Youth Orchestra is a Spanish youth orchestra.Teresa Berganza is a Spanish mezzo-soprano.Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-born orchestral and operatic conductor, best known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.Luisa Miller is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.Lorin Maazel was an American conductor, violinist, and composer.Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western and Eastern classical music. He is currently music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and Conductor Emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.Carlo Maria Giulini was an Italian conductor.The Symphony No. 5 is Beethoven’s 5th symphony and is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies.The Goldberg Variations is a musical composition for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations.La Traviata is an opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi.Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera by Charles Gounod.Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi."(Ravenni & Girardi n.d., Introduction.)Richard Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period.Nikolaus Harnoncourt was an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier.Pablo Casals was a cellist, composer, and conductor from Catalonia.La 1 (La Uno, The One), is the flagship television channel of Spanish public broadcaster Radio televisión Española (RTVE).La 2 (La Dos, The Two) is Spain's second state-owned television channel for the public broadcasting service.Senegal is a country in West Africa.José Plácido Domingo is a Spanish opera, conductor, and arts administrator.Otello is an opera by Verdi.Franco Ferrara was an Italian conductor.Guido Cantelli was an Italian orchestral conductor."Fritz" Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.Alicia de Larrocha was a Spanish pianist and composer. She was considered one of the great piano legends of the 20th century.The Tudors is a historical fiction television series set primarily in 16th-century EnglandMedici is an Italian-British historical dramaSpotify Technology S.A. is a Swedish media-services provider founded in 2006.

Kelley sang the role of Federico Lorca in the original version of Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar.Kelley earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and her master's degree in Music from the University of California, Los Angeles.John Adams is an American composer, clarinetist, and conductor of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.Suzuki is a character in the opera Madame Butterfly, an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini.Roberto De Candia is an Italian operatic baritone.Maria Luigia Borsi is an Italian opera singer.Hadleigh Adams is an operatic baritone from Palmerston North, New Zealand. Hadleigh recently played Mercutio in Cincinnati Opera’s performance of Charles Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet.Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II.A breeches role (also pants role or trouser role) is a role in which an actress appears in male clothing.Tanglewood is a music venue in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five".Requiem Canticles is a 15-minute composition by Igor Stravinsky, for contralto and bass soli, chorus, and orchestra.Cherubino is a character in The Marriage of Figaro, an opera buffa (comic opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart."The Composer" is a character in Richard Strauss's opera Ariadne auf Naxos.Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") is a composition for two voices and orchestra written by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler.Cecilia Bartoli is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist.“Voi Che Sapete” is an aria from The Marriage of Figaro.Renée Fleming is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions.Leontyne Price is an American soprano. She rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was the first African American to become a leading performer, or prima donna, at the Metropolitan Opera, and one of the most popular American classical singers of her generation.Robert Spano is an American conductor and pianist.The Gospel According to the Other Mary is an opera/oratorio by John Adams.Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary staging of classical and contemporary operas and plays.El Niño is an opera-oratorio by John Adams.Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.El Salón México is a symphonic composition in one movement by Aaron Copland, which uses Mexican folk music extensively.Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.Kelley grew up in Clovis, California.Audra McDonald is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win all four acting categories. McDonald was raised in Fresno, California.La Cenerentola is an operatic dramma giocoso by Gioachino Rossini.The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten.Claude Debussy was a French composer.Phyllis Curtin was an American classical soprano who had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s.Donald Runnicles is a Scottish conductor.Louis Langrée is the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.Evans mentions the following Mahler works: Symphony No. 2 (known as the Resurrection Symphony), Symphony No. 3, Symphony No.8, Rückert-Lieder, and Kindertotenlieder.The songs of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn) by Gustav Mahler are voice-and-piano and orchestral settings of German folk poems chosen from a collection of the same name.The Rape of Lucretia is an opera by Benjamin Britten.Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.The Neruda Songs are a cycle of five songs composed for mezzo-soprano soloist and orchestra by the American composer Peter Lieberson for his wife, singer Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Lieberson chose O'Connor as the first mezzo-soprano to sing his composition Neruda Songs live in concert after the death of his wife.Bernard Haitink is a Dutch conductor.The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is an American orchestra based in Atlanta, Georgia. Robert Spano has been its music director since 2001.Agustín Barrios was a Paraguayan virtuoso classical guitarist and composer, largely regarded as one of the greatest performers and most prolific composers for the guitar.Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.The Dream of Gerontius is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the poem by John Henry Newman.Wesendonck Lieder is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano Wagner, Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice).Hans Werner Henze was a German composer.Sea Pictures is a song cycle by Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets.Jascha Heifetz was a Russian-American violinist.Kelley cites Dawn Upshaw, an American soprano, as her most important mentor.The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history.Tidying Up with Marie Kondo is a reality television series developed for Netflix and released on January 1, 2019.Kelley mentions Here’s the Thing and Fresh Air as some of her favorite podcasts.Zero, aptly named for the amount of food you eat during a fast, is a simple tracker that helps users sync a fast with their biological clock.Spotify Technology S.A. is a Swedish media-services provider founded in 2006 with an app of the same name.Pandora is a music application.Metropol Restaurant & BarJessica Rivera is an American soprano of Peruvian-American ancestry.Kelley cites Nina Simone as one of her favorite musicians outside of classical music.

Stephen grew up in the town of Warrington, England.Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England.The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon.Sir Trevor Nunn is an English theatre director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company.Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.Richard II is a history play by William Shakespeare.John Barton was a British theatre director and (with Peter Hall) a co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company.Twelfth Night is a comedy by William Shakespeare.Dame Judi Dench is an English actress.John Copley is a British theatre and opera producer and director.The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London.Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End.The London Opera Centre, a school for the training of opera singers and other opera professionals, existed in England between 1963 and 1977.GlinebornBenjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist.Sir Peter Pears was an English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner for nearly forty years.Joan Cross was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.Aldborough is a village in the civil parish of Boroughbridge in the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England.La bohème is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini.Paul Bunyan is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups.Malcolm Fraser was an opera director.The Magic Flute is an opera by Mozart.Scottish Opera is the national opera company of Scotland.Sir David Pountney is a British and Polish theatre and opera director and librettist internationally known for his productions of rarely performed operas and new productions of classic works.“Four Sea Interludes” are from the opera Peter Grimes by Benjamin BrittenPeter Hemmings was an English opera administrator, impresario and singer.LA OperaJohn Cox is an English opera director.The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Mozart.Così fan tutte an opera by Mozart.Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg.Don Giovanni is an opera by Mozart.Glyndebourne is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera.Falstaff is a comic opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss.Un ballo in maschera is an opera by Verdi.English Touring Opera (ETO) is an opera company in the United Kingdom founded in 1979 under the name Opera 80 by the then-existing Arts Council of Great Britain.The Barber of Seville is an opera by Gioachino RossiniSir Thomas Allen is an English operatic baritone.Dame Janet Baker is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.Serenade to Music is a work by Ralph Vaughan WilliamsRobert LloydDanielle de Niese is an Australian-American lyric soprano.Jules Massenet was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892).Sir Roger Norrington is a British conductor. He is the son of Sir Arthur Norrington and his brother is Humphrey Thomas Norrington.Elijah Moshinsky is an Australian opera director, theatre director and television director who has worked at the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal National Theatre, BBC Television and numerous other venues.The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK.The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.Valery Gergiev is a Soviet and Russian conductor and opera company director of Ossetian origin.Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera by Richard StraussCarol Vaness is an American lirico-spinto soprano.Opera KansasPalm Beach Opera Vocal CompetitionOpera PhiladelphiaCount Almaviva is a character in the Marriage of FigaroTheresa May is a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party.Don Carlos is a grand opera composed by Verdi.Simon Boccanegra is an opera by Verdi.Madame Butterfly is an opera by Giacomo Puccini.Der Freischütz is a German opera with spoken dialogue by Carl Maria von Weber.Washington Irving was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.Glenn Platt is Cincinnati Opera’s Director of ProductionGiorgio Strehler was an Italian opera and theatre director.Killing Eve is a British spy thriller television series, produced in the United Kingdom by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America.Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan.The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is the second-oldest zoo in the United States.Amy Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter.René Jacobs is a Belgian musician. He came to fame as a countertenor but in recent years has become renowned as a conductor of Baroque and early Classical opera.Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.Santa Fe Opera (SFO) is an American opera company.Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Italian, later American opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest.

Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.The San Diego Opera Association (SDO) is a professional opera company located in the city of San Diego, California.La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini.Rusalka is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák.Eugene Onegin is an opera composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.Oberlin College and ConservatorySeiji Ozawa is a Japanese conductor known for his advocacy of modern composers and for his work with the San Francisco Symphony, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted from the West Coast Exclusion Zone during World War II by executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.The Holocaust was the World War II genocide of the European Jews.An American Dream is an opera by Jack Perla, a composer and pianist.Lyric Opera of ChicagoEverything Is Illuminated is a 2005 biographical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer.Marie Kondo is a Japanese organizing consultant and author.Boris Goldovsky was a Russian-born conductor and broadcast commentator, active in the United States. He has been called an important "popularizer" of opera in America.Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera by Charles Gounod.The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.La bohème is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini.Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Nicole Cabell is an American operatic soprano. She recently played Juliet in Cincinnati Opera’s production of Romeo and Juliet.Matthew White recently played Romeo in Cincinnati Opera’s production of Romeo and Juliet.Traditional Japanese theatre includes Kabuki, Noh(and its comic accompaniment, Kyōgen) and the puppet theatre, Bunraku.Jennifer Good is the Managing Director of Production at the San Francisco Opera.Santa Fe Opera (SFO) is an American opera company.Rupert Hemmings is the Vice President of Artistic Planning at the LA Opera.Paul Moser is an American philosopher who writes on epistemology and the philosophy of religion. He is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago and past editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly.Houston Ballet, operated by Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fourth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas.William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.Mozawa is a performing arts company that, through hybridity and fusion, aims to break down the barriers that exist between differing artistic media and cultures.Nabucco is an Italian-language opera by Giuseppe Verdi.Franco Zeffirelli was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television.Origami is the art of paper folding, which is often associated with Japanese culture.Don Carlos is a (historical) tragedy in five acts by Friedrich Schiller.Sir Derek Jacobi is an English actor and stage director.Madame Butterfly is an opera by Giacomo Puccini.Ana Martínez is a Puerto Rican soprano.Kelly Kaduce is an American soprano.Robert Wilson is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by the media as "[America]'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist'".University of MichiganDePaul UniversityNorth Park UniversityThe Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera CenterAdler Fellowship ProgramDie Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow) is an opera by Richard Strauss.The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten.The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky.Marco Polo is an opera by the Chinese-born composer Tan Dun.Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics).My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.Stephen Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre.A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer, TV presenter, and Chief Designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand for Xcel Brands.Houston Grand Opera (HGO), located in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert.Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) is an American summer opera festival held in St. Louis, Missouri.Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman.Dark is a German science fiction thriller web television series.Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation network company offering services that include peer-to-peer ridesharing, ride service hailing, food delivery, and a bicycle-sharing system.The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, originally known as the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky.Ohio River TrailThe Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City.Matthew mentions Beyoncé as one of his favorite artists outside of the opera world.

Kathleen Battle is an American operatic soprano known for her distinctive vocal range and tone.Lyric Opera of ChicagoLuciano Pavarotti an Italian operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.Plácido Domingo is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator.Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is a New Zealand soprano.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.Shirley Verrett was an African-American operatic mezzo-soprano who successfully transitioned into soprano roles, i.e. soprano sfogato.Don Carlos is a grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi.Pomona is a German-language opera by Reinhard Keiser.Susanna is the countess Almaviva’s maid in The Marriage of Figaro.Clara is a character in the opera Porgy and Bess, by the American composer George Gershwin.Susanne Mentzer is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. She is best known for singing trouser roles, such as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo, Octavian in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier and the composer in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, as well as other music of Mozart, Strauss, Rossini, Berlioz and Mahler.The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) is an American opera company based in Chicago, Illinois.Renée Fleming is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions.Leontyne Price is an American soprano. She rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was the first African American to become a leading performer, or prima donna, at the Metropolitan Opera, and one of the most popular American classical singers of her generation.In music performance and notation, legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.Tatyana and Eugene Onegin are character is the opera Eugene Onegin composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.The Magic Flute is an opera by Mozart.Così fan tutte is an Italian-language opera buffa by Mozart.Victoria Okafor is an American opera soprano.Barbarina is a character in in The Marriage of Figaro.Operalia, The World Opera Competition, founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo, is an annual international competition for young opera singers.Liù is a character in the opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini.Deborah Birnbaum is an internationally established voice teacher.The Gershwin Initiative at the University of Michigan."Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.Morris Robinson is an American bass opera singer and former All-American college football player who has performed with the Metropolitan Opera at Carnegie Hall, at La Scala in Milan, Italy, at the Sydney Opera House and in numerous other Opera Houses throughout the United States and internationally. He was the first African-American artist to sign with a major classical record label.Mimì is a character in the opera La bohème.Countess Rosina Almaviva is a character in the opera The Marriage of Figaro.Micaëla is a character in the opera Carmen.Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.Cendrillon (Cinderella) is an opera—described as a "fairy tale"—by Jules Massenet.Castor and Patience will premiere during Cincinnati Opera's 100th anniversary season in 2020.Me Before You is a romance novel written by Jojo Moyes.Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is A Game of Thrones.Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan.Instacart is an American technology company that operates as a same-day grocery delivery and pick-up service in the U.S. and Canada.The Eagle OTR and Salazar are restaurants in Cincinnati.Beyoncé is an American singer, songwriter and actress.Drake is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur.Radiohead are an English rock band. The band consists of Thom Yorke, brothers Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, and Philip Selway.Muse are an English rock band. The band consists of Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme, and Dominic Howard.Teletubbies is a British pre-school children's television series.

The Metropolitan OperaNaomi Andre attended Westtown SchoolEric Mitchko is the General Director for the North Carolina Opera.Barnard College, Columbia UniversityThe Magic Flute is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera by Richard Strauss.Tatiana Troyanos was an American mezzo-soprano of Greek and German descent, remembered as "one of the defining singers of her generation" (Boston Globe).Dame Gwyneth Jones is a Welsh operatic dramatic soprano.Kathleen Battle is an American operatic soprano known for her distinctive vocal range and tone.Khovanshchina is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky.Dialogues des Carmélites is an opera, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, by Francis Poulenc.Manon Lescaut is an opera by Giacomo Puccini.Columbia UniversityJessye Norman is an American opera singer and recitalist.Sieglinde is a character in Die Walküre, the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.Leona Mitchell is an American operatic soprano and an Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductee.Mimi is a character in the opera La bohème, composed by Giacomo Puccini.Martina Arroyo is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers of Puerto Rican descent to achieve wide success, and is viewed as part of an instrumental group of performers who helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world.Aida is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is a New Zealand soprano.The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.Nabucco is an Italian-language opera composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi.Samuel Ramey is an American operatic bass.Andrea Gruber is an American dramatic soprano particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of Puccini, Verdi, and Wagner.James Levine is an American conductor and pianist. He is primarily known for his tenure as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, a position he held for 40 years.Alfred Walker is an American operatic bass-baritone.Michèle Crider is an American lirico spinto operatic soprano.Mark Rucker, baritone, serves as professor of voice at MSU's College of Music.Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin.Fidelio is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera.Marian Anderson was an American contralto singer, one of the most celebrated of the twentieth century.Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, dubbed "The Black Swan" (a play on Jenny Lind's sobriquet, "The Swedish Nightingale”, was an African-American singer considered the best-known black concert artist of her time.James Alan Bland, also known as Jimmy Bland, was an African-American musician and song writer.Thomas Dartmouth Rice, known professionally as Daddy Rice, was an American performer and playwright who performed blackface and used African American vernacular speech, song and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time."Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" is a popular song commonly sung by blackface performers in the 19th century.Prada S.p.A. is an Italian luxury fashion house, specializing in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, perfumes and other fashion accessories, founded in 1913 by Mario Prada.Gucci is an Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods. Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence, Tuscany, in 1921.Ralph Shearer Northam is an American politician and physician serving as the Governor of Virginia.Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Sissieretta Jones, was an American soprano. She sometimes was called "The Black Patti", a reference to Italian opera singer Adelina Patti.The Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' efforts towards independence.Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist, and served as First Lady of the United States.Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.Mattiwilda Dobbs was an African-American coloratura soprano and one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career in opera.Lillian Evanti was an African-American opera singer.Mary Lucinda Cardwell Dawson was an African-American musician and teacher and the founding director of the National Negro Opera Company.Theodore Drury, born in Kentucky, was a singer and music promoter.Dr. Kristen Turner’s work has been published in the Journal of the Society for American Music, and the Journal of Musicological Research. Her research interests are in 19th century opera, 19th and 20th century American musical culture, African American music, music and politics, and music and gender.Sir Rudolf Bing, KBE was an Austrian-born opera impresario who worked in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, most notably as General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1950 to 1972.Ulrica is a character in the opera Un ballo in maschera, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.RCA Studio B is a music recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee built in 1956. Originally known simply by the name “RCA Studios”, it became known in the 1960s for being an essential factor to the development of the production style and technique known as the Nashville Sound.“O don fatale” is an aria from the opera Les Troyens, a French grand opera by Hector Berlioz.Dom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal is a French grand opera by Gaetano Donizetti.Leontyne Price is an American soprano. She rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was the first African American to become a leading performer, or prima donna, at the Metropolitan Opera, and one of the most popular American classical singers of her generation.The Julliard SchoolWilliam Warfield was an American concert bass-baritone singer and actor.Alice Ford is a character in the opera Falstaff.Donna Anna is a character in the opera Don Giovanni.Franco Corelli was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976.Il Trovatore is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.Madame Butterfly is an opera by Giacomo Puccini.Liù is a character in the opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini.The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi.Joe is a character in the musical Show Boat by Jerome Kern.La Scala is an opera house in Milan, Italy.Otello is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.Atlanta Symphony OrchestraRussell Thomas is an American operatic tenor.Robert Spano is an American conductor and pianist.The Gershwin Initiative at the University of MichiganHouston Grand OperaLyric Opera of ChicagoFrancesca Zambello is an American opera and theatre director. She serves as General Director of The Glimmerglass Festival and Artistic Director of the Washington National Opera.The Neil Simon Theatre, formerly the Alvin Theatre, is a Broadway venue built in 1927.Götterdämmerung is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen.Treemonisha is an opera by African-American composer Scott Joplin, who is most noted for his ragtime piano works.Harry Lawrence Freeman was a United States opera composer, conductor, impresario and teacher. He was the first African-American to write an opera (Epthalia, 1891) that was successfully produced.Voodoo is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Harry Lawrence Freeman.William Menefield is a Cincinnati-born composer. How work Fierce will be premiered by the Cincinnati Opera in 2020.Sheila Williams is the author of Dancing on the Edge of the Roof, On the Right Side of a Dream, The Shade of My Own Tree and Girls Most Likely.

On this month’s episode we share an overview of our Queen City BBQ cover package and chat with local pitmaster-slash-anesthesiologist Muhammad Munir. Freelancer Carrie Blackmore Smith also tells us about her story on Blind Injustice, a Cincinnati Opera production that tells the powerful stories of the Ohio Innocence Project.

La Cincinnati Opera presenta la ópera de Gounod "Romeo y Julieta" con la Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra bajo la batuta del maestro Ramón Tebar. Entrevistamos al Maestro Ramón Tebar en el 2008, 2009, 2014 y en el 2015. En nuestras entrevistas aprendimos sobre los sueños de un joven que con tan solo 15 años era el director asistente de la orquesta juvenil de su ciudad natal de Valencia, España y ser el primer director de orquesta español en ser nombrado Director Musical de una compañía de ópera estadounidense, la Gran Ópera de Florida (FGO). El Maestro Tebar ha sido invitado por Cincinnati Opera y ha dirigido la Cincinnati Symphony en las óperas: Ainadamar, Turando y Madame Butterfly y la ópera de Charles Gounod "Romeo y Juliet".

For 99 years, CSO musicians have played a collaborative and pivotal role in Cincinnati Opera’s summer festival season. A major, fulltime orchestra also performing in the pit for an opera company is rare in this country, and the special nature of this relationship elevates the level of artistry opera goers enjoy each and every summer. On this episode, we talk to Cincinnati Opera’s Artistic Director Evans Mirageas about what this summer has to offer, as well as Cincinnati Pops Conductor John Morris Russell, who is on the podium for an exciting Cincinnati Opera world premiere.

Marcus has designed for opera, theater and dance across North America and in Europe, including numerous productions for the Minnesota Opera, Lyric Opera Kansas City, the Guthrie Theater, Children’s Theater Company, Minnesota Dance Theater, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. Recent designs include La fanciulla del West and Hansel and Gretel for Minnesota Opera, Otello for Pittsburgh Opera, Silent Night for Cincinnati Opera, Love’s Labour’s Lost for Actors Theatre of Louisville and The Moving Company; Tartuffe for South Coast Repertory; Dead Man Walking for Madison Opera; The Ballad of Emmett Till for Penumbra Theater; and Cabaret for Theater Latté Da. Other projects include By the Way and Meet Vera Stark for Penumbra Theater; Silent Night for Lyric Opera Kansas City; Tartuffe for Berkeley Repertory Theater and the Shakespeare Theater; and The Barber of Sevillefor Madison Opera.

About the Performance: This production contains extreme sexually explicit images from the Robert Mapplethorpe collection that may be inappropriate for attendees under 18. Discretion is advised. Thirty years after the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, we still cannot turn away from what his photos reveal. Composer Bryce Dessner, Librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle, and director Kaneza Schaal in collaboration with Roomful of Teeth and a musical ensemble of 12 players explore the ways Mapplethorpe's works compel an audience's complicity and characterizes them in the act of attention. As a young man growing up in Cincinnati, Dessner's own exposure to the protests surrounding this galvanizing artist rooted a lifelong kinship to his pivotal body of work. Mapplethorpe's pictures both unite and divide viewers, provoking a consideration of perceived opposites–their literal as well emotional and cultural meanings – Black/White, Male/Female, Gay/Straight, Art/Porn, Classical/Contemporary. His pictures seduce, shock, offend, excite, intrigue and scare us all at once.  Single images take our breath away through the classic capture of everyday acts of nature and the beauty of their composition. On the other hand, a single image has the power to reveal our fears and our desires and the razor-thin line between the two. We confront this work privately, flipping through coffee table books or seeing the work in a museum gallery. But in Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), Dessner, Tuttle & Schaal ask an audience to experience these reactions collectively. Through music, projection of Mapplethorpe's images, and the poetry of Tuttle, Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith, the work puts the audience inside the artist's view finder, inside his beautiful, bold, voracious view of how nature and humans look, touch, feel, hurt and love one another. Co-produced by Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel Music and Artistic Director. Produced in Residency with and Commissioned by University Musical Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. TRIPTYCH was co-commissioned by BAM; Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada; Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece; Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati, OH; Cal Performances, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Stanford Live, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Adelaide Festival, Australia; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for performance as part of DirectCurrent 2019; ArtsEmerson: World on Stage, Emerson College, Boston, MA; Texas Performing Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Barbican Centre, London; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and Celebrity Series, Boston, MA. Residency development through MassMOCA, North Adams, MA. Photo credits: Alistair Butler, 1980 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission. Bryce Dressner photo by Shervin Lainez Korde Arrington Tuttle photo courtesy of the artist Roomful of Teeth photo by Bonica Ayala Produced in cooperation with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Program: Bryce DESSNER : Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) Artists: LA Phil New Music Group Sara Jobin conductor Bryce Dessner composer Korde Arrington Tuttle featuring words by Essex Hemphill & Patti Smith librettist Roomful of Teeth Kaneza Schaal director Simon Harding video Yuki Nakase lighting design Carlos Soto costume design Talvin Wilks dramaturgy ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann co-producers TUE / MAR 5, 2019 - 8:00PM Upcoming concerts: www.laphil.c

Kaminksy’s father grew up during the Great Depression, her mother experienced the London Blitz when she was youngLincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York State Theater (now the David H. Koch Theater)Babatunde OlatunjiWinneba, GhanaBalafonMusical tupletsSynesthesiaGestalt psychologyImpresarioMarionetteThe High School of Music & Art (now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & the Arts)Edna LandauWomen composers of the 20th century: Lili Boulanger, Florence Price, Amy BeachKaminsky received an undergraduate degree in psychology from Oberlin CollegeColumbus CircleMirageas served as the Senior Vice President of Artists and Repertoire at Decca Records in LondonHarlem RenaissanceThe Fulbright Program, Peace CorpsAnd Trouble Came is a piece Kaminsky composed for narrator, viola, cello, and piano in 1993Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina20th century eastern European composers: Krzysztof Penderecki, Dmitri Shostakovich, Henryk GóreckiKaminsky composed Terra Terribilis: Concerto for Three Percussionists and Orchestra in 2008 and Rising Tide for string quartet in 2012Fry Street QuartetLudwig Beethoven, Leoš JanáčekGarth LenzAs One is Kaminsky’s first operaKimberly Reed is a filmmaker and created films for As OneSasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Kelly Markgraf (baritone) were the premiere cast for As OneSt. Petersburg, RussiaVladimir AshkenazyKaminsky’s favorite place in Cincinnati is Maplewood KitchenToday it Rains is a new chamber opera by KaminskyThe Rachel Maddow ShowUberKaminsky’s opera Some Light Emerges participated in Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Opera Fusion: New Works workshop in 2016Kaminsky was the Associate Director of Humanities at the 92nd Street YKaminsky was in awe when she met Chick CoreaNational Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Show notes:Giuseppe Verdi’s OtelloAida, Madama Butterfly, The Barber of Seville were featured in the 1952 seasonParsons references Samson et Delilah with Claramae Turner & Kurt BaumParsons tells a legend involving Kurt Baum in a Metropolitan Opera production of Il TrovatoreParsons references Act II of Tosca (“Quanto?”)Fausto Cleva was the conductor of Cincinnati Summer Opera for 29 years at the ZooLucia di Lammermoor was performed in Cincinnati Opera’s 1954 seasonParsons mentions The Medium by Gian Carlo MenottiAlms Hotel is a historic Cincinnati hotel (and now a residential apartment building)Parsons mentions the Vienna State Opera Ballet performing Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin with the Cincinnati Symphony during the Opera’s season at the Cincinnati ZooSherrill Milnes, baritoneThe tenor Parsons criticizes is named Eddy RuhlSea Thorn by Henry Humphreys is based on the story of PhaedraParson quotes a section from George Santayana’s A Sense of BeautyNell Rankin, mezzo-sopranoAnthony Stivenelo provided costumes for many Opera productions in the Zoo daysThe Magic Flute at the Zoo featured sets from Indiana UniversityL'amore dei tre re ("The Love of the Three Kings") is an opera by Italo MontemezziParsons’ recommended operas:Best opera to start: CarmenBest opera for its simplicity: Madama ButterflyBest opera to portray everyday life: La BohèmeParsons is currently rereading the complete works of T.S. EliotParsons enjoys watching the National Geographic, SyFy and Food Network channelsParsons enjoys Thanksgiving at The Golden Lamb in Lebanon, OHCleo Laine’s recording of “Send in the Clowns”Parsons enjoyed learning Gregorian chant at CCM (University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music)

Show NotesRoberto Devereux is an opera by Gaetano DonizettiBeverly SillsUniversity of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)Franco Corelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Martina Arroyo, Grace Bumbry, Joan SutherlandElijah is an oratorio by Felix MendelssohnSarah BernhardtEvans and Henri briefly discuss Cincinnati Opera’s 2018 production of La Traviata, which featured soprano Norah Amsellem as Violetta.Pagliacci is a one-act opera by Ruggero LeoncavalloCincinnati Opera produced Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman in 2018Henri mentioned that these were the most rewarding operas he has worked on: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Nixon in China, Elektra, Salome, and FidelioNorma and Ariadne auf NaxosLady GagaThe Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European WorldGoogle Maps

This episode is a live recording from Cincinnati Opera’s Opera Rap that took place at the museum on May 31, 2018 on the topic of Bad Behavior, Great Art. Panelists: Evans Mirageas, Harry T. Wilkes Artistic Director, Cincinnati Opera (Moderator) Anne Arenstein, Arts Writer and Critic, City Beat Ken Kanter, Associate Dean and Director of the Rabbinical School, HUC-JIR, Cincinnati Sarah Weiss, Executive Director, The Holocaust and Humanity Center Zack Winokur, Opera Director and Choreographer For more info and other programs, visit: www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org Cincinnati Opera: https://www.cincinnatiopera.org/ Theme song: Offrande Musicale by Bacalao Take our survey: bit.ly/ArtPalaceSurvey

Annalisa mentions Suzuki training for string players.Interlochen Center for the Arts is an arts education organization in northwest Michigan. www.interlochen.orgThe viola da gamba is the instrument Annalisa plays.Annalisa’s ensemble is the Catacoustic Consort.The OED is the Oxford English Dictionary.Catacoustic Consort includes Elizabeth Motter (baroque harp), Melissa Harvey (soprano), Joanna Blendulf (viola da gamba), David Walker (theorbo), and Michael Leopold (theorbo).The term Early Music refers roughly to art music of the 16th to 18th centuries.Catacoustic premiered the opera “La Fete du Ruel” by Marc-Antoine Charpentier on June 4, 2016.Cincinnati Opera presented “La Calisto” as part of its 2014 season and will present Monteverdi’s “The Coronation of Poppea” in 2018.Annalisa mentioned two composers whose operas she’d like to produce: Jean-Philippe Rameau and Francesca Caccini.Evans mentioned two others: Lully and Grétry.The recording Annalisa mentions is titled Lamentarium; it’s by the group Atalante. http://www.atalante.co.uk/lamentarium.htmThe video associated with the album is available here.The book by Alison Crum that Annalisa refers to is titled The Viol Rules. Here’s a link: https://www.amazon.com/Viol-Rules-Alison-Crum/dp/0952822040The restaurant O Pie O is located on Madison Road in Cincinnati. www.opieo.comCory Henry is a jazz and gospel organist. Learn more at www.coryhenry.com.Annalisa mentions the instruments pardessus de viole and lirone.

In this episode I am joined by trumpeter Amy Cherry. Amy is currently the secretary of the International Women's Brass Conference (IWBC) and joins me to talk about that organization, tell her story, and offer some advice from her own career as a performer and teacher. Topics: Amy’s background and early years as a musician including being steered towards playing the flute even though she wanted to play the trumpet and how growing up in Fairfax County Virginia gave her great musical experiences. We get in a weeds with a bit of conversation about the trumpet, including some teaching tips and thoughts about the potential impact of regional dialects when learning to articulate. The International Women’s Brass Conference (IWBC), its history and mission, and the current programs offered by the organization. The Penny Turner competition for young female brass students. Links: Balaton Brass IWBC Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait Hindemith: Symphony in B-flat Michael Kallstrom: Changing Times and Colors Biography: Amy K. Cherry holds a B.M. in Trumpet Performance from the University of Illinois and an M.M. and D.M.A. in Trumpet Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She recently relocated from North Carolina where she served as Assistant Professor of Music at Western Carolina University. She has previously held the position of Instructor of Trumpet at Morehead State University, Wright State University and East Tennessee State University. Amy served as Associate Principal Trumpet of the Hofer Symphoniker in Hof, Germany for a six-week appointment. During her years in North Carolina she was Principal Trumpet with the Asheville Lyric Opera, Assistant Principal Trumpet with the Spartanburg Philharmonic, and Third Trumpet with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. She has served as principal trumpet of the Kingsport Symphony and Johnson City Symphony Orchestras in Tennessee and performed with groups such as the Cincinnati Opera, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dayton Opera, the Lexington Philharmonic, the Winston-Salem Symphony, the Flat Rock Playhouse, Mannheim Steamroller, the Monarch Brass Ensemble, the Athena Brass Band, and the Summit Brass Ensemble. Amy is an active chamber musician interested in reaching new audiences and expanding the repertoire for brass instruments. To achieve those goals she founded the Balaton Chamber Brass in 2010 with her husband, trombonist Dan Cherry.

Ben Bogart is the co-director and founder of the tango group, Cuarteto Tanguero. He is also the group's bandoneon player. Ben studied classical music at UC Santa Cruz and jazz at Berklee College of Music before traveling to Argentina to pursue a 2-year certificate at the esteemed Orquesta Escuela de Tango Emilio Balcarce in Buenos Aires. He spent a total of 6 years in Argentina, and studied with the top bandoneón players and tango musicians there. Ben has also performed with multiple grammy award winners, and has been featured as a bandoneón soloist with the Cincinnati Opera, the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Lexington Philharmonic, and many others. More information on Ben here: http://www.cuartetotanguero.com https://www.facebook.com/cuartetotanguero/

Hase was Lighting Designer at Giessen State Theater (Stadttheater Giessen)Hase was Lighting Designer for open-air ballet called The Shadow of Gobustan in front of Gobustan Mountains in AzerbaijanHase mentions that stage lights range from 750-5000WHase pioneered programmable moving lights in operaEach light uses a 20A circuit (household breaker boxes use 15-20A)History & literature degrees; Masters in Aesthetics (from the Institute of Theater & Design in Cologne, Germany)King LouisToscaLa BohemeA Doll’s House at the Abbey Theater in DublinA gobo is a dark plate or screen used to shield a lens from light.Bonn, GermanyFulbright GrantDie MeistersingerCologne State TheaterOpera CologneMeredith MonkWorld Premiere of Waiting for the Barbarians by Philip Glass Erfort, GermanyTony Award-winning Company at Playhouse in the Park in CincinnatiFridaTriumphant march in AidaThe Demon (opera) in Barcelona1,200 lighting units for Cincinnati Opera’s 2018 season, avg. 800-900 lights/seasonGiessen State TheaterSingle-source lightingLighting cuesMoving lightsWash lightsCAD = Computer-aided design/drafting softwareLED = light-emitting diodeTungsten lightsHID (high-intensity discharge) lamps are used in moving lightsAronoff Center for the ArtsThe Magic FluteHase wants to work on The Rake’s Progress and Wozzeck again, as well as The Flying DutchmanLa Boheme at San Francisco OperaIce (opera based on the Lundberg novel)Cincinnati Opera Brat Fry: invented by Hase; Miesfeld’s brats flown in from Sheboygan, Wisconsin for staff, cast, and crewGary Kidney (technical director)In the Garden of the BeastSherlockThe BridgeNextFlight appArnold’s Bar (Cincinnati)Frank RichHase mentioned Gilbert Hemsley and Hans Tolstead as two of his mentors

We're chatting about Frida Kahlo with soprano Catalina Cuervo, who is singing the title role in Cincinnati Opera’s production of Frida which opens on June 23. In conjunction with this production, the Cincinnati Art Museum has posted an online exhibition of photographs of Frida by Bernard Silberstein which can be seen at cincinnatiartmuseum.org/Frida Hosted by Russell Ihrig. Theme song: Offrande Musicale by Bacalao For more info and other programs, visit: www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org Links: Cincinnati Opera: http://www.cincinnatiopera.org/

This week on Her Process, I'm chatting with community artist, Lois Keller. Lois's journey as an artist has taken her from working on backdrops for the Cincinnati Opera, to working on murals with kids, to writing and illustrating a book for her daughters, to working on a portrait series that you just have to see to believe! In this episode, Lois talks about the aforementioned portrait series, The Trader Joe's Feminist Bags. She touches on the importance of learning different artistic techniques so that you have the tools to express yourself, and the importance of creating your own space for making and finishing work. She talks about how her mom's battle with Alzheimer's affects her art, and how the roles of caregiver to her mom and her kids, have influenced and inspired pieces and projects. And, she tells us what it means to be a community artist. Talking with Lois reminded me of why I started making art in the first place, way back when I was a little girl. I did it because I loved it. Because something inside me needed to do it. Because the doing and the making of art made me happy. It isn't really about the end result, or even where the art ends up. It's all about the good that art can do, and it's about the process. Thank you for the reminder, Lois. For show notes, photos, and fun facts about Lois, hop on over to herprocess.com Get updates on IG & Twitter: @jobozarth , and on Facebook: facebook.com/herprocess

 You all know of my great praise for dear Marisa Galvany, and you have responded with praise to my podcasts of her material. Here is another selection of her material, with some repeats, but sometimes it is more valuable to hear a compilation.  Included are scenes and arias from Ernani,Traviata, Cavalleria (with Domingo), and Aida (as Aida and Amneris.)  (58 min.) Galvany studied primarily under Armen Boyajian (also the teacher of Paul Plishka and Samuel Ramey). She made her professional opera debut at the Seattle Opera in 1968 in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca. The following year, she portrayed the title heroine in Simon Mayr's Medea in Corinto in New York City, a performance which was recorded for Vanguard. She made her first international appearance in 1972 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida. In 1972 Galvany was offered a contract to join the roster of principal singers at New York City Opera by Julius Rudel. She accepted, making her debut with the company later that year as Elisabetta in Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda opposite Beverly Sills in the title role. She continued to sing regularly with that company through 1983, portraying such roles as Abigaille in Nabucco, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, , Odabella in Attila, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Violetta in La traviata, and the title roles in Anna Bolena and Luigi Cherubini's Médée. She also sang in several different productions of Tosca where she partnered such tenors as José Carreras and Harry Theyard. In 1973, Galvany filmed her acclaimed Lady Macbeth, in Macbeth, for the Canadian Broadcasting Company, opposite Louis Quilico. That same year she made her first appearance with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company as Aida with Pier Miranda Ferraro as Radamès, Joann Grillo as Amneris, and Gianfranco Rivoli conducting. In 1974 she made her first appearance at the New Orleans Opera opening the 1974-1975 season as Rachel in Fromental Halévy's La Juive with Richard Tucker as Eléazar. She returned to open the company's next two consecutive seasons as Aida and Valentin in Les Huguenots, the latter production with Rita Shane and Susanne Marsee. She later returned to New Orleans to sing Salomé in Jules Massenet's Hérodiade. Galvany made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1979, in the title role of Norma. In 1985, the singing-actress sang Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel and Ortrud in Lohengrin on tour with the company, then the Kostelnička in Jenůfa during the Fall Season in the theatre. At the Cincinnati Opera, she appeared in Turandot (with Harry Theyard) and Salome (with Ticho Parly as Herod). During the mid 1980s, Galvany began to add mezzo-soprano roles to her repertoire. She sang Amneris in Aida at the Cincinnati Opera in 1985. In 1992 she sang the title role in Bizet's Carmen with the New York Grand Opera. (NYGO) She performed frequently with the NYGO up into the early 2000s. On the international stage Galvany has appeared at the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, the Liceu, the Great Theatre, Warsaw, the National Theatre in Prague, and the National Theatre in Belgrade among others. She has also sang in operas in Brazil and Venezuela. References The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, Simon and Schuster, 1987. ISBN 0-671-61732-X Galvany, Marisa biography at operissimo.com (in German)