Fall 2010 Newsletter
Yesterday I left sunny 87 degree Atlanta. Today I’m splitting wood in 47 degree rainy Kingston and thinking of lighting a fire in the stove. Fall is here.
Atlanta was great. A beautiful production of La Bohème, great cast, great company and for the last week of the run, great weather. Did I mention Bobby & June’s Kountry Kitchen?
Amara celebrated her 2nd birthday and started preschool. Both girls are enjoying taking care of our guinea fowl. We’ve been raising them since they were day-old chicks in May. Fully grown now, the guineas will have their own e-updates – which will not be appearing in your inbox.
South Shore residents: please come to the faculty recital at the South Shore Conservatory, Sunday, October 24 at 4PM at the Hingham campus. This is a rare opportunity for us to perform Tom Cipullo’s “The Husbands.” Then we have a piano/voice department recital on December 5. Now accepting repertoire suggestions for 3-4 voices and four hands piano.
Almost a year to the day I return to Amherst, this time for a concert Bohème with maestro Mark Lawson, Mark Panuccio and Jennifer Black - my beautiful Donna Anna from Opera New Jersey. December 11 at Amherst College.
Right after the new year I head off for my company and role debut as Ping in Turandot with Arizona Opera. The family will have a chance to visit there as well and enjoy the glorious weather.
A new variation on our Living American Composers program will take a small North American tour . First at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, then the Andre-Turp Musical society in Montreal, and a few other recital / masterclass residencies. (See, we can call it a ‘North American’ tour because one of the shows is in Canada.) See calendar for details.
March 11 I’ll be singing with the Dearborn Symphony in a program of some of opera’s greatest moments, compiled by Maestro Kypros Markou and yours truly.
In April (while celebrating my 34th birthday) I will return for my fourth season at Boston Lyric Opera, this time as the rustic Starveling in their new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
May 22 I return to Dayton Opera for their 50th anniversary gala as part of the “impressive roster of recent stars of the Dayton Opera.” (!)
This summer I’ll return to the Duxbury Music Festival to reprise The Husbands and some other great chamber music. Speaking of great chamber music, I’ll be returning to Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, NY to sing the Notturno of Othmar Schoeck. Last Summer I sang Dover Beach with the Amernet Quartet. The unimaginable happened that rainy afternoon out in the woods: the audience asked for an encore of Dover Beach.
Then in October another company and role debut: Papageno with…well you’ll just have to wait.
There’s always more news, the 2011 Pan Mass Challenge, more recitals, more great music.
And don’t forget to vote for Florence Henderson on Dancing with the Stars.
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