Daniela Candillari: Across the Musical Globe

The Prototype Festival is a contemporary opera festival in New York City The New Opera Showcase is a contemporary opera showcase sponsored by Opera America and Trinity Wall Street Cathedral Candillari studied piano in Graz, Austria Olivier Messiaen is a 20th-century French composer Candillari’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 Verdi Candillari studied jazz at Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN A Hochschule is an institution of higher education within German-speaking countries At age six, she became “obsessed” with the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán Franz 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 Music Evans references a concert he saw at Symphony Hall Boston with jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton & Handel and Hayden Society Carnegie Hall (New York) and Wigmore Hall (London) are two well-known classical music venues Candillari became the Head Coach at the Slovene National Theatre in Maribor, Slovenia Così fan tutte is an opera buffa (a kind of comedic opera) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Recitative 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 Ages Musical Composition: Craft and Art is a book by Alan Belkin Mind Over Finger is a podcast about music performance. W1A is a British comedy TV show Arthur 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.