Podcasts about opera memphis

Welcome to the Green Room Meditations Podcast, presented by the Indiana Repertory Theatre and hosted by Devon Ginn.  Today, we are in conversation with: Carey Wong. He is currently serving as Senic Designer for IRT's season opener, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Carey has worked for over 45 years as a stage designer and arts administrator in the United States, Canada, and abroad.  He has designed sets and/or costumes for over 300 productions of operas, plays, musicals, and ballets, as well as art installations and themed environments.  Currently a freelance designer and theatre consultant based in Gig Harbor, Washington, he began his career as General Production Manger and Resident Designer of Portland Opera for eight seasons.  This was followed by two seasons as Artistic Administrator and Resident Designer at Opera Memphis.  While at Portland Opera, Mr. Wong designed sets and costumes for 12 new productions including the American premiere of Ernst Krenek's LIFE OF ORESTES (in an English translation by the composer commissioned for the premiere), the world premiere of Bernard Herrmann's WUTHERING HEIGHTS, and a rare staging of Carl Maria von Weber's DER FREISCHÜTZ.  Three of his Portland productions were shared by Seattle Opera.   https://www.careywong.com/    About the Indiana Repertory Theatre: Founded in 1971, the Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT) is the largest professional not-for-profit theatre in the state and one of the leading regional theatres in the country. The mission of the Indiana Repertory Theatre is to produce top-quality, professional theatre and related activities, providing experiences that will engage, surprise, challenge, and entertain people throughout their lifetimes, helping us build a vital and vibrant community. Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA): The IRT strives to celebrate and serve the diverse people and cultures that make up our whole community. The IRT is committed to providing access for all; to creating and maintaining an antiracist theatre that is inclusive, safe, and respectful. https://www.irtlive.com/ 

Katie checks in with music director, pianist, orchestrator, and educator (Berkshire Theatre Group, the MUNY, Opera Memphis, the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition, developmental teams for Oklahoma! (2019) and Hadestown), Jacob Kerzner.

Each March, the City of Birmingham publishes daily StrongHer profiles featuring under-recognized women who are leading our community. Join Mayor Woodfin and his friends as they celebrate five years of StrongHer and share stories of the women who inspire us. Guests: Chanda Temple, Senior Project Manager, City of Birmingham Mayor's Office Jacqueline McKinney - StrongHer Candidate  Retired dressmaker, housekeeper and caterer Jacqueline McKinney has taken it upon herself to pick up trash in her neighborhood after failing to get a larger dumpster for her Woodlawn apartment complex. Once she is done in her neighborhood, the 69-year-old hits First Avenue North to pick up litter. She does all this, despite health issues.  She also volunteers to cook to help loved ones when they've lost someone.   Allison Sanders - StrongHer Candidate   Made her stage debut at the Alabama Theatre at the age of six in the Sound of Music. Singing opera and  performing with various groups, including the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the New York City Opera, Opera Memphis, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Allison was a soloist during the closing ceremony of the World Games in Birmingham.

Bethania joined the KJNB-TV team in August of 2022 as the TV Host/Community Engagement Coordinator. She is the host of the feature segment “This Is Home Today”. ​Previously, Bethania was the Director of Education and Civic Programs at Opera Memphis. While at Opera Memphis, Bethania designed and facilitated new community programs, including new partnership with HBCUs, local Latinx organizations, and music academies. ​She hosted a bilingual children's opera show called “Mijo Milan” which featured her toddler, Milan, as they explored the world of opera through the eyes of children. Her work garnered well-earned praise and was recognized as a 40 Under 40 honoree in the Memphis Business Journal in 2022.​Originally from Mexico, Bethania is also one of the Spanish language anchors for Northeast Arkansas News en Español. ​Bethania holds a Master of Music from the University of Arizona and a Bachelors of Music Education from New Mexico State University.   Bethania Baray-Harrison. Not only is she a new mom, she is also the Director of Education and Civic Programs at Opera Memphis, a recipient of the McCleave Fellowship in Directing from Opera Memphis, a committed advocate and liaison for the Latinx community, and a rising social media influencer. Website www.luxelifediscovered.com Youtube Roku Amazon Fire TV

Learn more about how Elena Armijo can support you in seeing and using the power that resides within you. Can you unblock creativity? So many people believe that they aren't creative, either because they do not see themselves as creative or because somewhere along the way, someone told them that they weren't creative. But that's simply not true. Everyone is creative—it's just that not everyone has accessed their creativity. In her Weekly Coaching Tip, Elena provides three tips for how you can access your creativity. In her interview, Elena speaks with Bethania Baray-Harrison. Not only is she a new mom, she is also the Director of Education and Civic Programs at Opera Memphis, a recipient of the McCleave Fellowship in Directing from Opera Memphis, a committed advocate and liaison for the Latinx community, and a rising social media influencer. In Elena's words, “She's light. She's love. She's passion.” In their conversation, they talk about Bethania's journey from New Mexico State University to becoming the Director of Education and Civic Programs at Opera Memphis, the future for the healing, connective power of opera, and how the arts create opportunities for underserved populations. Be sure to take a listen! Let's Get Social! Want to hear more from Elena? Click here! Follow the gorgeous Bethania Baray-Harrison on Facebook and Instagram. Learn more about Opera Memphis! Visit Bethania's website. This podcast was produced by the following amazing team: John Biethan, President of Imagine Podcasting Sam De Santo, Creative Director Rye Taylor, Podcast Design Strategist & Producer Meg McCarley, Brand Designer & Social Media Manager Raejan Noh, Content Writer Aaron Boykin, Musician & Artist (Get updates about Aaron's music via Instagram)

As our holiday gift to you, dear listener, we're revisiting a few of our favorite episodes in a series we're literally calling "Our Favorite Things." (cue the Julie Andrews music!) This first one was hand-selected by our sometimes co-host, AT, and originally aired in December 2020. As to why she selected this particular episode, she said: "First, Ned Canty is hilarious! But more importantly, he has a way of explaining things that seem so high-brow to make them very accessible and exciting. I assumed I wouldn't like opera, but this episode made me rethink that entire notion completely." We dare you to not smile while you re-visit just how fun opera (and Opera Memphis) can be!

Ned Canty of Opera Memphis joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

In the final episode of the season, Keturah speaks with director, Crystal Manich, director and General Director of Opera Memphis, Ned Canty, and conductor, Joseph Mechavich, about three texts that move them in opera.  The conversation goes from the specific text to why sounds can be so moving, to how we approach text in our practice, and these three interviews sit beautifully as a trio in thought and structure.Texts discussed are Colautti’s Adriana LeCouvreur, Romani’s The Elixir of Love, and Maeterlinck’s Pelleas et Melisande.

Episode Notes Ned Canty of Opera Memphis is all about making opera not only accessible, but downright FUN! If life is a burger, then opera is a cheeseburger in paradise loaded up with all of your favorite toppings. Don't believe us? Tune in to have Ned make a believer out of you.

Ruth Margraff and Kamala Sankaram's opera, LOST MUSIC FROM THE HEART OF EVERYTHING (a suffrage aria for Amelia Himes Walker), will be available to view virtually through the end of September. For more information, visit https://burningcoal.org/ (Burning Coal Theatre’s website) or https://www.ncopera.org/ (North Carolina Opera). About the Guests Ruth Margraff wrote 6 critically acclaimed martial arts operas with the late composer Fred Ho for the Apollo, Guggenheim Museum, LaMama, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her recent writing includes: Mirror Butterfly her jazz opera for climate refugees with Afro Yaqui Music Collective at New Hazlett Theater (Pittsburgh), Kennedy Center Millenium Stage (DC), National Ensemble Theater plenary (Tucson), 1st Mesopotamian Water Forum (Kurdistan, Iraq), and released on Innova Records at Red Rooster/Ginny’s and the National Jazz Museum (Harlem); Temptation of the Fresh Voluptuous for the Nisville Jazz Teatrski Festival (Serbia), Red Tape/Art Institute Ballroom (Chicago), Coe Marquis Series Sinclair Stage (Iowa); and haiku for Bella Gaia with NASA holographic imagery. With her Café Antarsia Ensemble she wrote Previously Blue, Three Graces, Wellspring, Judges 19: Black Lung Exhaling which have toured all over the US and internationally. Ruth has received awards from Rockefeller, McKnight, NEA, and Fulbright foundations, etc. She is a tenured Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. https://bakerartist.org/node/23709 (https://bakerartist.org/node/23709)  Kamala Sankaram, composer, has received commissions from Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, the PROTOTYPE Festival, Opera on Tap, Opera Memphis, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, among others. She is the recipient of a Jonathan Larson Award from the American Theater Wing.  She is currently working with Opera on Tap and librettist Jerre Dye on The Parksville Murders, the first opera written for virtual reality. Episode 1 is now available on SamsungVR. Her other operas include Taking up Serpents, Thumbprint, Miranda, and The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace.  Connect with Us Facebook – @rduonstage Twitter – @rduonstage Instagram – @rduonstage Web http://www.rduonstage.com/ (www.rduonstage.com) Support this podcast

I chat with my friend Becky Caspersen about her lifelong love of the performing arts, her job as a production manager with Opera Memphis, and how faith and the arts can go hand in hand in very practical ways.

Ned Canty tells Eric Barnes about his journey from watching the Ramones in CBGB's in New York to heading Opera Memphis.

Deirdre Hade is a born mystic and visionary, dedicated to healing those who have suffered from trauma, pain and loss. She is a member of Jack Canfield’s Transformational Leadership Council, an organization of 150 world leaders in the field of personal transformation. Deirdre’s teachings on the Power of Meditation are featured alongside the writings of other modern day spiritual luminaries and she has received the F.L.O.W.E.R. award for her pioneering work in energy healing. Her humanitarian work allowed her to be knighted by the Sovereign Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. When Deirdre headed off to college at 17, she met Joseph Campbell. It was a meeting that set the course for the rest of her life. Her parents were research scientists in biochemistry and physiology. Recognized by Robert Joffrey for her fire and spirit, Deirdre danced with the NYC Opera, choreographed for the Banff Center of Performing Arts and the Opera Memphis and Southern Opera Theater. Deirdre has a dance company, “Celebrations of the Sacred,” and directed the Memphis Ballet Company, where she created the first inner city ballet program teaching to disadvantaged youth and awarding scholarships. Deirdre also choreographed and performed in Stephen Halpern’s “Summer Wind,” the inaugurating video of the VH1 channel. Deirdre founded The Radiance Journey, a system of energy healing and mystical wisdom based on the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life. 132 countries and thousands throughout the country have participated at The Omega Institute, The ACADEMI of Life in New York City, The Evolutionary Healing Institute and the Sacred Space. Deirdre founded the non profit organization The Foundation for Radiance, a program that works closely with the Women’s Prison for women rescued from abuse and sexual slavery. She designed My Angel Pillow to bring the healing comfort angels to children in hospitals all across the country. Deirdre is a keeper of the World Peace Flame and founding member of the Association for Transformational Leaders of Southern California. Deidre was featured as a Love Luminary and been named a Light Luminary, in the book, The Light. Deirdre is the author of The (not so) Little Book of Surprises, a COVR Visionary Awards Silver Recipient which she created with her husband, William Arntz, the creator of the film “What the BLEEP do We Know!?” and award winning photographer Endre Balogh. Her new book, The Five Archetypes for the 21st Century Woman: How to Live in Full Feminine Power, will be released in spring 2020. Deirdre is the mother of two children, Leilah and Eric Franklin and is married to her great love, Will Arntz. Today they live happily ever after in Santa Barbara, California.

Memphis Machine gets classy and takes a goes to the Opera, Opera Memphis. We speak with Michael Sakir (conductor) and Ned Canty (director). These gentlemen are titans of opera and a joy to talk to. We have a very enlightening discussion about opera and its relevancy in Memphis. Enjoy.

In this episode Ned Canty general director and Michael Sakir music director both of Opera Memphis tell us how September is the perfect time for opera, how opera doesn't suck and has it's fair share of sex drugs and rock n roll.   Opera Memphis YouTube | Facebook |  Twitter | Pintrest   Ned Canty - Opera Doesn't Suck Michael Sakir website Suggested Episode - Virginia Murphy of Playback Memphis Billy "Unexpected traverser" Nation Kim “Connected to all the things all the time” Morrison

Ned Canty is the General Director at Opera Memphis and has over 20 years of experience as an opera stage director. As a freelance artist for 20 years, Canty directed operas at dozens of companies in the US, Italy, Israel, China and Canada. The New York Times described his work as having "a startling combination of sensitivity and panache.” Follow him on Twitter here→ @poilaparola

Michelle Duckworth's illustrations are often inspired by fairy tales, but she enjoys sharing those vignettes where you could imagine anything with a whimsical and slightly peculiar slant. We discuss her designing sets of Opera Memphis, classic client talk, and traversing artist markets in Memphis. Catch a ride and enjoy as she explains the adventure. What is a Duckworth?Facebook | Blogspot | Etsy Wilderness ChildrenNov 3 - 29, Memphis Botanic GardensOpening Reception: Nov 8th, 3-5pm Suggested episode - Shane McDermott