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News: Joseph Mechavich will conduct San Diego’s ‘Moby-Dick’

Joseph Mechavich will replace conductor Karen Keltner in the San Diego Opera’s West Coast premiere production of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick,” which opens Saturday at the Civic Theatre.

Mechavich, the music director and principal conductor of the Kentucky Opera, has guest conducted the Deutscheoper Berlin, New York City Opera, Washington National … read more

Reviews: David Portillo in Armide “radiant tone” and “sweet”.

David Portillo, heralded as “guest artist”, brought radiant tone and dynamic finesse to the tenoral laments of the Crusader Renaud.
Financial Times

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As Renaud, David Portillo displayed such a sweet, free-and-easy light tenor sound that one wished Gluck had given him more to sing.
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BEST OF: Performances of Matt Boehler and Marie Lenormand make New York Times’ list of 2011 highlights

Vivien Schweitzer, music critic for the New York Times, included performances by ADA artists Matt Boehler and Marie Lenormand in her classical music highlights of 2011.

Marie Lenormand as the Fox in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen:

‘CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN’ A host of unusual creatures have appeared with Alan

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BEST OF: Performances of Matt Boehler and Marie Lenormand make New York Times’ list of 2011 highlights

Vivien Schweitzer, music critic for the New York Times, included performances by ADA artists Matt Boehler and Marie Lenormand in her classical music highlights of 2011.

Marie Lenormand as the Fox in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen:

‘CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN’ A host of unusual creatures have appeared with Alan

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Review: Piper’s powerful performance…

Angry and despondent, Piper’s Canio launches into one of opera’s most venerated arias “Vesti la giubba” (“Put on the make-up”), the “tears of a clown” classic that influenced a barrage of sad sacks in face paint for years to come. Piper’s powerful performance of the soaring anthem erases every memory … read more

Review: Mo. Mechavich triumphs in Moby Dick with Calgary Opera

 

The orchestra, crisply led by Joseph Mechavich, provides all the sounds of the sea, idiomatically rendering the often movie-like sound-scape into sound. This element is so pronounced that one wonders if the score is conceived as much as a cinematic sound-scape as a conventional operatic score.

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Camille Zamora “colorful and unwavering powerful” Anna Bolena

Houston Chronicle, Buzz Belmont ~

 “Camille Zamora digs deep into Anna Bolena with the richness of her fabulously colorful and unwaveringly powerful soprano instrument, always emoting with perfect diction, placement, tone, and volume. The nuances and brilliant choices Ms. Zamora makes along Anne Boleyn’s path of painful epiphanies are profoundly astounding… Ms. read more

Review: Anna Bolena “Spellbinding”

As wrongly accused Anna, soprano Camille Zamora tore up the intimate space with her drama-filled voice and subtle acting. One could easily be tempted to go overboard in this role, but Donizetti wisely gives everyone else a fair share of the spotlight, venting much of the pressure. Zamora knows when … read more

Frederick native, opera singer: ‘Having talent isn’t enough’

By Karen Gardner 
News-Post Staff 

Corinne Winters grew up in a musical household. But she never envisioned she’d become an opera singer.

Winters is a young opera sensation, however. At 28, she has already performed on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and she will perform … read more

Mo. Mechavich discuss Heggie’s “Moby Dick”

Wondering what to expect from the music of Moby-Dick? Conductor Joseph Mechavich sat down with us to give a brief run-down of this fantastic new opera.… read more