Mar 01 Blog Joyce DiDonato Songplay Joyce DiDonato‘s new album Songplay finds itself at the intersection between baroque & classical songs and jazz, with “standards” from both worlds. DiDonato re-imagines Italian art songs and arias with the flexibility and sensibility of jazz, and throws in tunes by the likes of Duke Ellington and Richard Rodgers as a complement. In some ways, […] By Daniel Gilliam Mar 01 Blog Joyce DiDonato Songplay By Daniel Gilliam
Jan 06 Blog Claudel Lives Again in Heggie’s Here/After: Songs of Lost Voices Art often turns to itself for inspiration. An interdisciplinary approach to creating art has been used for ages, be it paintings of Ophelia drowned or Mussorgsky’s musical rendering of Pictures at an Exhibition. From the first operas written on the story of Orpheus to Stephen Sondheim’s depiction of the life of painter Georges Seurat in […] By WUOL Jan 06 Blog Claudel Lives Again in Heggie’s Here/After: Songs of Lost Voices By WUOL
Jan 18 Blog Mary Stuart – Live from the Met Saturday’s live broadcast from The Met is Donizetti‘s opera based on Mary, Queen of the Scots. Here’s all you need to get ready for the performance. Performance Program | Cast Sheet and Synopsis By Daniel Gilliam Jan 18 Blog Mary Stuart – Live from the Met By Daniel Gilliam