Browsing all posts in April, 2010.
Competition Listings Update: April 29th
by Christie Connolley Are you tired of paying fees to access competition notices? So are we! Every Thursday morning, Operagasm presents a fresh update of competition listings. We would be happy to include your competition notice in a full story during the week and/or in the Thursday listing, please submit your notice by emailing competitions@operagasm.com. Mercury Opera Deadline: [...]
Hormonal Question(s) for Singers…. YES MENSTRUATION!!!
by Erica Papillion-Posey First things first- any word (where women’s health is concerned) that starts with the letters MEN- can’t be at all good. And let me just offer my apologies, up front, to our male readers but skerrrrrrrrrrrrrr………This is your queue to leave. Sit this one out, exit the page, hit the back button or completely [...]
Flicka says her Farewell at Carnegie!
by Erica Papillion-Posey I was actually in the audience about a year ago when the incomparable mezzo soprano, Frederica von Stade appeared in performance at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House here in Denver, CO. “Flicka was as stunning and vital then as she is now at almost 65 years of age. Accompanied by her partner of [...]
Tunes with Toons: Romanian Frogs Know How to Party
by Melissa Wimbish This is really funny….so. It includes dancing and singing frogs, confused children, and native instruments. The glances that take places in this clip, both animated and real life, are PRICELESSSSSSS! Thanks Romania! Click here to watch the clip on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jIeMsSmrc
Question of the Week
by Melissa Wimbish If someone forgot the words to their aria and just stopped singing and you were on stage with them, what would you do? Run. Cry. Take off your shoes. Dance a jig. How would you save the show? I think I would feel inclined to start singing something, but in the end, that would [...]
Bernstein Musical Tops Most Fashionable List
by Christie Connolley The Times of London has deemed West Side Story as the most influential film on the fashion world. In a recent article which recounts the top 25 films that shaped the fashion world, “Natalie Wood plays an impoverished Puerto Rican on the wrong side of town, but still gets to wear ravishing [...]
Susan Graham in Debut as Handel’s Xerxes at Houston Grand Opera
So far this season, Susan Graham has triumphed in Berlioz’s Damnation de Faust at Lyric Opera of Chicago, in Strauss’s Rosenkavalier at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, in Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with the San Francisco Symphony, and in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on a West Coast tour. Now the Grammy Award-winning mezzo returns to her native Texas [...]
General Care of the Speaking and Singing Voice
by Catherine Kasch As a voice teacher for some twenty five years, teaching first high school age, then community college and finally, university level for 13 years (voice and pedagogy), vocal health is of the utmost importance and priority to me. Most career driven vocalists are striving to achieve a top 2 to 3% [...]
Opera Colorado Ends Season with Tosca
by Chip Michael (republished courtesy of http://interchangingidioms.blogspot.com/) Tosca at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House –where do I begin? I rather feel like the fan watching a game that is practically hopeless only to see my team score in the final seconds and win! But the score was not just any score; it was one of [...]
Skylight Opera Presents Rent!
Set in 1989, in New York City’s thriving Bohemian East Village, Rentis a modern take on Puccini’s 1896 classic, La Boheme. With a driving rock score integrating dance, pop, rock ‘n roll, R&B and salsa, Rentfeatures video artists, performance artists, guitarists, strippers, cross-dressers, and drug addicts, all trying to find themselves and find their way [...]
