Tag: opera

  • Once he heard her sing, Gershwin not only included her in his production, but in his writing process, eventually developing her character into a co-lead and a career-defining role for Brown. And thus the story of DuBose Heyward’s Porgy became known to the world as “Porgy and Bess.”

  • A New Orleans Company Shines A Light On Opera’s Diverse History Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2017-05-28 Malika Gumpangkum and Lulu Garcia-Navarro From left to right: Aria Mason (Rosalia), Ebonee Davis (Piquita) and Kenya Lawrence Jackson (La Flamenca) star in OperaCréole’s production of La Flamenca. Cedric A. Ellsworth/Courtesy of OperaCréole For many people, New…

  • But Julia Bullock, a young soprano who performed her Naumburg Foundation recital last Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum, definitely has it, and she is off to a fine career.

  • Never in a million years will people viewing Julia Bullock as she strides the War Memorial Opera House floorboards as Dame Shirley suspect there is vulnerability undergirding every step. Nor will the 31-year-old soprano’s direct delivery of transparent tones in the world premiere of John Adams’s “Girls of the Golden West,” a San Francisco Opera…

  • Japanese-Canadian hapa woman makes opera fun Global Asian Women: Stories for and about Asian women around the world 2013-07-31 Elizabeth Noh Her name means a solo piece in an opera, and it just so happens that Aria Umezawa is a trained opera singer. The mixed Japanese-Canadian is also the co-founder and artistic director of Opera…