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Podcast 15, Opera Acting Technique

Published on February 11, 2012 By Peter Szep

LISTEN TO PODCAST 15 Does being a modern opera singer require you to be more than a walking voice? There are many ways to train actors that are being applied to opera today and we speak with Patrick Eakin Young the Artistic Director of Opera Erratica, is developing work using the acting technique known as [...]

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New Podcast with Nico Muhly, Paula Kimper, Richard Brooks

Published on June 23, 2011 By Peter Szep

We are so proud to publish our interview with Nico Muhly. To celebrate Pride month we thought we would focus on gay themed operas, and we have 3 very different operas. Robert and Hal—Richard Brooks composer, Marcia Elder librettist. An undiscovered opera about a 19th century love story, very “old school gay” Patience and Sarah, [...]

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Interview with Paula Kimper

Published on June 14, 2011 By Peter Szep

Paula Kimper composer of Patience and Sarah, talked to us about one of the first coming out operas. First produced as part of the Lincoln Center Festival in 1998, it is based on the landmark novel by Isabel Miller which tells a story, based on fact, of a relationship between women set in 19th century [...]

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