Peter, Brooke, Walker, and Chuck sit down for a rollicking convo with internationally renowned bel canto tenor Barry Banks about how his youthful goal to be a concert trumpet player morphed into his highly successful career in opera. Other topics covered include how to co-parent a 13-month-old while on tour, and Barry’s exciting upcoming season…Continue reading Podcast 65: Tenor Barry Banks
Podcast 64: Victoria Bond
Victoria Bond joins the Indie Opera Podcast team for a broad and fascinating discussion about her career and her operas. With infectious charm and humor, she shares stories about singing in the NYCO children’s chorus, visits from the hoi polloi of the classical music world to her childhood apartment, studying acting at UCLA, being introduced…Continue reading Podcast 64: Victoria Bond
dell’Arte Opera Ensemble
dell’Arte Opera Ensemble Elyse Anne Kakacek, Soprano Liz Bouk, Mezzo-Soprano Whitney George, Composer/Co-Conductor Sarah Young, Director Karen Rich, Managing Director dell’Arte Opera Ensemble 2019 Summer Festival: Voices From the Tower Summer Shares at La MaMa Experimental Theater August 10th to 25th ELYSE ANNE KAKACEK – soprano Princess Maleine in PRINCESS MALEINE BIO: Elyse Anne Kakacek…Continue reading dell’Arte Opera Ensemble
Podcast 63: Vivien Schweitzer, Author and Journalist
Indie Opera Podcast’s usual suspects sit down for a engaging conversation with author Vivien Schweitzer about her delightfully informative book, A Mad Love: an Introduction to Opera, her varied career as a journalist, a critic and her return to live performance as an accompanist. NOTES Recorded at the National Opera Center 6/17/19 Vivien Schweitzer, author/journalist/critic/pianist…Continue reading Podcast 63: Vivien Schweitzer, Author and Journalist
Soprano Ashley Galvani Bell, Antón Armendariz Diaz of Divaria Productions
LA VOIX HUMAINE – Divaria Productions Divaria Productions presents La Voix Humaine by composer, Francis Poulenc and librettist, Jean Cocteau in a bi-lingual production sung in French and spoken in English combining the operatic monodrama with the original play as part of the 2019 New York Opera Fest Performances are: June 25th & 27th at…Continue reading Soprano Ashley Galvani Bell, Antón Armendariz Diaz of Divaria Productions