It is with great excitement that I prepare to return for my fourth season of outreach with The Motor City Lyric Opera! We will be bringing The Billy Goats Gruff by John Davies to children in inner city Detroit schools, marking our second tour of the work. For details on the outreach, please check out last [...]
Tonight marks the opening of Puccini’s beloved La bohème at the Lyric Opera of Chicago! I am so honored and thrilled to share the stage with some of the hottest names in opera right now: Anna Netrebko and Ana Maria Martinez as Mimi, Joseph Calleja and Dimitri Pittas as Rodolfo, Elizabeth Futral as Musetta, all [...]
I am beyond thrilled to be joining The Ohio Light Opera for their 35th anniversary season in 2013! Ohio may be the birthplace of aviation, but it is also home to one of the premier operetta companies in the nation. Heralded for their commitment to preserving authentic operetta tradition, OLO attracts more than 22,000 patrons [...]
It is with great pleasure that I announce that I will be joining the Lyric Opera of Chicago chorus this season! As a member of the Core Supplementary Chorus, I will be gracing the stage in productions of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Puccini’s La bohème. First up is the Verdi: starring [...]
Labor disputes in Chicago have certainly been at the forefront of national media coverage this month! No sooner had a week-long strike by Chicago public school teachers been resolved, Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians walked out last weekend over unresolved contract disputes. Thankfully, the CSO musicians and the Board of Trustees accepted a new three-year collective [...]