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As I get ready to head to St. Louis for the final week of rehearsals of The Golden Ticket (with a quick trip to Los Angeles for the Opera America conference in the middle!), I was excited to see that...
View ArticleLEADING UP TO THE PREMIERE
The Golden Ticket has been a daily part of my life for almost four years. After we delivered the orchestral parts, the conductor scores, and the piano vocal scores to OTSL, everyone at ALT breathed a...
View ArticleBEYOND THE PREMIERE
The Golden Ticket opened at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis to incredible critical and audience reception this month – we truly could not have asked for a warmer welcome for American Lyric Theater’s first...
View ArticleAMERICAN OPERA IN ISRAEL
The month of July finds me in Tel Aviv, where I am on the faculty of the International Vocal Arts Institute. My connection to Tel Aviv has a strange connection to American opera. As a young singer,...
View ArticleLOOKING FORWARD TO WEXFORD’S GOLDEN TICKET
Tomorrow I’m off to Wexford for the European premiere of The Golden Ticket, which opens on Sunday October 17th. The World Premiere this summer in St. Louis was only a few short months ago, and it is...
View ArticleSMALL BUT MIGHTY – TEN REASONS TO CELEBRATE AMERICAN LYRIC THEATER IN 2010
As is evident from the space between my blog entries, I’ve not kept my promise to blog as regularly as I had hoped. While I intend to blog more frequently in the new year, I will refrain from making a...
View ArticleTHE AMERICAN-NESS OF AMERICAN OPERA DEPENDS ON AMERICAN AUDIENCES
Inspired by Washington National Opera’s new American opera initiative, and a subsequent article by Anne Midgette in the Washington Post, there has been a lot of discussion online this week about what...
View ArticleLET’S RECORD AN OPERA – A STUDY IN CREATIVE COLLABORATION
Collaboration is one of ALT’s core values – in fact, it is literally written into our mission. For ALT, collaboration involves building sustainable partnerships with artists – specifically composers...
View ArticleIN THE STUDIO – STAGING TWO WORLD PREMIERE POE OPERAS IN FARGO!
This week, we began rehearsals at Fargo Moorhead Opera for the world premiere production of Buried Alive and Embedded, two of the one-act operas commissioned by ALT as part of The Poe Project in 2009....
View ArticleTHEY ALL LAUGH WHEN I SIT DOWN AT THE PIANO (OR, THEY WOULD IF THEY WEREN’T...
Today, we have a guest post from one of ALT’s most devoted supporters, Katherine Moldave. Cathy shares how she got hooked on ALT, and what she is most excited about in the season to come… I admit it. I...
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