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Inside Opera
by Cincinnati Opera
Journey backstage with Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director Evans Mirageas and other special guests to discuss everything opera. In this podcast, you'll learn about the life and work of everyone from seasoned stage directors to rising contemporary composers and more!
Episodes
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Robin Guarino: Directing as Activism
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...
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Gregory Spears: Modern Masterpieces
The American Opera Project is an opera company in Brooklyn, New York dedicated to developing new operatic and musical theatre works. Fugues are a musical composition technique in which a melody is blended with other melodies, usually in complex ways. German Baroque composer J.S. Bach is notable…
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Isabel Leonard: Constructing a Character
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…
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Marie-France Lefebvre: Working with the Coach
Conductor Mark Gibson, the current Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), invited Lefebvre to participate in a CCM summer program in Luca, Italy. Gustav Meier was a Swiss conductor and professor of orchestral conducting at the Peabody...
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Talise Trevigne: Baseball Mom and Opera Star
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...
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David Effron: Cincinnati's Own Conducting Legend
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…
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Vita Tzykun: On Design
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...
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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...
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David Charles Abell: Storytelling
Abell was raised in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas. David sang in the 1971 world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with the Berkshire Boy Choir. Abell enrolled at Yale University, where his teachers included John Mauceri and Rob…
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Amor de la Vida: An Interview with Ramon Tebar
Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition Renata Scotto is an Italian soprano and opera director. Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti València is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-largest city in Spain. Montserrat Caballé was…
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Kelley O'Connor: Pushing the Limits
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....
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In Conversation With Stephen Lawless
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…
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Matthew Ozawa: Collaborative Origami
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....
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Susanna Phillips: Balance
Jessye Norman is an American opera singer and recitalist. Susanna is from Huntsville, Alabama where she attended Randolph School. She received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School. After completing her master's degree in 2004, she became a member of Santa Fe...
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Janai Brugger: Hurry Slowly
Kathleen Battle is an American operatic soprano known for her distinctive vocal range and tone. Lyric Opera of Chicago Luciano 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...
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An Interview With Omer Ben Seadia
Tel Aviv is the most populous city in the largest metropolitan area of Israel. The Gulf War The First Intifada was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The Second Intifada was a period of intensified Israeli–Palestinian violence. Ludwig van Beethoven…
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Opera Rap: Naomi André and Morris Robinson
The Metropolitan Opera Naomi Andre attended Westtown School Eric Mitchko is the General Director for the North Carolina Opera. Barnard College, Columbia University The Magic Flute is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera by Richard Strauss. Tatiana Troyanos was…
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Reflections With Nicole Cabell
Mozart’s Requiem is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart David Robertson guest conductor Lyric Opera of Chicago The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center “Roger Norrington”, Sir Roger Arthur Caver Norrington is a British conductor. The Metropolitan Opera Elvira is a character in the...
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Lineman to La Scala: Morris Robinson
Robinson sang the bass solo parts for Mozart’s Requiem and Haydn’s The Creation in high school Robinson attended New England Conservatory of Music’s weekend program: the School of Continuing Education Norman Scribner founded the Choral Arts Society of Washington Satanella is a rarely performed...
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Laura Kaminsky on Opera's Future
Kaminksy’s father grew up during the Great Depression, her mother experienced the London Blitz when she was young Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York State Theater (now the David H. Koch Theater) Babatunde Olatunji Winneba, Ghana Balafon Musical tuplets Synesthesia Gestalt psychology...
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Charles Parsons: A Retrospective
Show notes: Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello Aida, Madama Butterfly, The Barber of Seville were featured in the 1952 season Parsons references Samson et Delilah with Claramae Turner & Kurt Baum Parsons tells a legend involving Kurt Baum in a Metropolitan Opera production of Il Trovatore Parsons references...
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Conversation with a Chorus Master
Show Notes Roberto Devereux is an opera by Gaetano Donizetti Beverly Sills University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Franco Corelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Martina Arroyo, Grace Bumbry, Joan Sutherland Elijah is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn Sarah Bernhardt Evans and Henri...
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Cori Ellison: Opera Guru
Rufus Wainwright Hadrian Mario Lanza Supertitles Lotfi Mansouri Beverly Sills Il Trovatore The Coronation of Poppea Cosi Fan Tutte Hamlet by Brett Dean Breaking the Waves by Missy Mazzoli L’Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho Dead Man Walking Margaret Garner “Porgi Amor” is an aria from The Marriage…
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Performing Opera Old and New with Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo
James Ivory is a film director, producer, and screenwriter (known for the 2017 film Call Me By Your Name) Michael Chekov was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. Costanzo's first operatic role was Miles in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, which is based…
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The Life of a Star with Norah Amsellem
La Traviata is based on the novel La Dame aux Camélias Amsellem was in the children's chorus for the 1984 film version of Carmen, dir. Francesco Rosi, with Plácido Domingo Amsellem studied with Lorraine Newbauer & Dalton Baldwin As a teenager, Amsellem sang "Casta Diva" in a short film about…
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Exploring Early Music with Annalisa Pappano
Annalisa mentions Suzuki training for string players. Interlochen Center for the Arts is an arts education organization in northwest Michigan. www.interlochen.org The viola da gamba is the instrument Annalisa plays. Annalisa’s ensemble is the Catacoustic Consort. The OED is the Oxford English...
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Rufus Wainwright: Between Two Worlds
Show Notes Wainwright’s opera Hadrian is being premiered by the Canadian Opera Company and was workshopped by Opera Fusion: New Works Glenn Gould Luciano Pavarotti Beniamino Gigli vs. Vera Lynn Piano composers: Chopin, Satie, Beethoven Herbert von Karajan – conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic...
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Thomas Hase's Life in Lighting
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 Azerbaijan Hase mentions that stage lights range from 750-5000W Hase pioneered programmable moving lights in...
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Stage Management with Connie Grubbs
Frida CCM - The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Unions Supernumeraries Raptor in Aida Aronoff Center for the Arts Stage management jobs in opera Music scores (see image above) Makes Marcus cringe: Director of Artistic Operations Fellow Travelers Ensemble Theatre Desperate...
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Hair & Make-up Design with James Geier
Soprano Anna Netrebko Milacron “Cyrano de Bergerac” is an opera by Franco Alfano. Michigan Opera Theatre’s David DiChiera also wrote an opera titled “Cyrano” that premiered in 2007. Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Cincinnati Ballet Pittsburgh Opera Correction: The plantation referred to was...
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Journey backstage with Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director Evans Mirageas and other special guests to discuss everything opera. In this podcast, you'll learn about the life and work of everyone from seasoned stage directors to rising contemporary composers and more!
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