Opera is a vocally-driven performing art. But this past Tuesday, Ellen Hargis—a “Baroque-music diva” according to The New Yorker—proved that sleight of hand can improve even the most skilled voices.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...
This week, Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, co-founders of Toronto's Opera Atelier, will be at Penn State University, leading master classes on Baroque operatic technique. A few weeks ...
The opera is based on the myth in Virgil's "Aeneid%2C"of star-crossed lovers who come to tragic ends. Bourbon Baroque leaders knew Purcell's opera could showcase many different arts disciplines. Clark ...
It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...
Nicholas Garza (Damon), far-left, Alex Longnecker (Acis) and Gitanjali Mathur (Galatea) far-right, during a production of Handel's 'Acis and Galatea' by the American Baroque Opera Company, on Saturday ...
Sydney-based Pinchgut Opera is internationally praised for research-driven revivals of baroque opera gems with an acute attention to historically-informed interpretation of the music. In this ...
It happened quickly. Within days of the slow roll of lockdown ordinances, it seemed the entire world moved online. Universities, non-emergency healthcare practitioners and large corporations alike ...
With a voice of angelic purity, halo of frizzy hair and girlish sweet smile, Emma Kirkby has been a kind of fairy princess of the early music movement since she first dropped in on it in the early ...