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She was advised not to sing the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, yet Lewek has performed the role hundreds of times in the finest opera houses in Europe and the United States, [3] holding the record for most performances in the role at the Metropolitan Opera. [6] She has sung at Aix-en-Provence and in Barcelona. [2]
Grounded is an English-language opera in two acts with music by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by George Brant. The libretto is adapted from Brant's play of the same name. The opera features a pilot, Jess, and shows her struggle to adapt to drone warfare. The opera premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2023 to mixed reviews.
Angela Brower is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer from Arizona. She is known for performing trouser roles, such as the title role of Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss in the opera's Colombia premiere.
Blythe made her professional opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera as the Voice from Above in Wagner's Parsifal on April 14, 1995. Her career was transformed the following season when she stood in for Marilyn Horne at the Metropolitan opera as Mistress Quickly in Falstaff and received rave reviews.
Mark Campbell is a New York-based librettist and lyricist whose operas have received both a Pulitzer Prize in Music [1] and a GRAMMY Award. [2] Mark began writing for the stage as a musical theatre lyricist, but turned to libretto-writing after he premiered Volpone, his first full-length opera in 2004 at Wolf Trap Opera Company.
The actress stars as opera singer Maria Callas in director Pablo Larraín’s new movie that premiered at the Venice Film Festival
In their review of his role in Utah Opera's 2016 production of Figaro, The Salt Lake Tribune said of Irvin, “Baritone Craig Irvin was a strong foil, playing Count Almaviva as a suave bully who was redeemed by a lightning bolt of compassion at the end of the opera.” [9] And in his role that year at LoftOpera as Macbeth, The Observer ...
Bryan Hymel came to the attention of opera houses at the age of 19, when he was a winner in the Verdi Aria Competition at the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado.A year later he was a grand finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions—where he was the youngest participant [1] —and he received an encouragement grant from the George London Foundation for Singers.