This season Santa Fe Opera offered new productions that ranged from standard
repertoire (Madame Butterfly and The Magic Flute) to a world
premiere (Lewis Spratlan’s Life is a Dream) with The Tales
of Hoffmann and Albert Herring falling somewhere amidst.
Category: Interviews
Kate Lindsey: An Interview
Bruce Adolphe: An Interview
Bruce Adolphe, born and raised in the New York area, a student of
composition at Juilliard in the sixties and seventies, has an impressive body
of work commissioned by artists known on every continent, and was chosen by the
Music Library Association to write a piece for brass (Triskelion)
marking the sixtieth anniversary of the Association, premiered by the American
Brass Quintet at the national meeting in Indianapolis in February, 1991.
Mohammed Fairouz: An Interview
As one of the most sought after composers of the young generation, Mohammed
Fairouz has many commissions and a substantial body of work, and maintains a
busy performance schedule.
Jacques Imbrailo, Malatesta at the Royal Opera House
Jacques Imbrailo sings Dr Malatesta in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House, London
Robert Baksa — An Interview by Tom Moore
Robert Baksa is a name that is well-known to lovers of contemporary chamber music, with a hundred chamber works to his credit.
Daniel Cat·n: An Interview by Maria Nockin
“You want to frame the voice in such a way that it shines.”— Daniel Cat·n
Baritone Austin Kness on his way
Baritone Austin Kness, an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera recently spoke with Opera Today critic Michael Milenski.
Jay Reise: An Interview by Tom Moore
Jay Reise is one of the senior musical figures in Philadelphia, serving on
the composition faculty of the University of Pennsylvania since 1980.
Christine Brewer: An Interview by Maria Nockin
On 7 June 2010, I spoke with Christine Brewer who was enjoying a relatively
free week at her home near St. Louis, Missouri, after long months of air travel
between concerts, recitals and operatic performances.
Pierre Jalbert: An Interview
Composer Pierre Jalbert (b.1967), of French Canadian ancestry, was born and raised in northern New England, and studied composition at Oberlin Conservatory and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked with George Crumb.