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singer (1917-2005)
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Frances Greer)
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- United States of America
- opera singer
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2023-12-09 14:00:36
Florencia en el Amazonas
The Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinée Broadcast season kicks off with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting Ailyn Pérez, Gabriella Reyes, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mario Chang, Michael Chioldi, Mattia Olivieri, and Greer Grimsley in Daniel Catán and Marcela Fuentes-Berain‘s opera
2023-12-06 18:04:00
Metropolitan Opera. Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas. December 5, 2023.
Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Orchestra (Seat Y101, $122).Ailyn Perez at curtain call. The other principal cast members are: The Captain, Arcadio, Rosalba, Riolobo, Alvaro, and Paula.Story. See previous post.Conductor - Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Florencia Grimaldi - Ailyn Perez, Rosalba - Gabriella Reyes, Arcadio - Mario Chang, Paula - Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Alvaro - Michael Chioldi, Captain - Greer Grimsley, Riolobo - Mattia Olivieri.A while ago a Lincoln Center email offered a 20% discount for the opera. Because of scheduling issues, only I could get to tonight's performance.I saw this opera in Washington DC, in 2014, while tagging along with Anne on her business trip. That time I went by myself also. While my review of that performance was just so-so, I still remember a few things about it: it was in Spanish, a young Chinese-American woman was the conductor, the set was simple, there was some dancing involved, and the protagonist […]
2023-11-16 17:00:05
Florencia en el Amazonas
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Ailyn Pérez, Gabriella Reyes, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mario Chang, Michael Chioldi, Mattia Olivieri, and Greer Grimsley in the Met premiere of Daniel Catán and Marcela Fuentes-Berain‘s opera.
2023-08-23 21:44:00
Generational Change
[…] street, where the Opera Orchestra has a number of openings. Additionally, when the next run of Der Ring des Nibelungen plays at the War Memorial Opera House, who do you think will be singing in it? Nina Stemme has retired the role of Brünnhilde, if I'm remember the program notes from her Cal Performances recital correctly. She and Iréne Theorin both turned 60 this year. I do not think that either Mark Delevan (age 64) or Greer Grimsley (age 67) will be back for Wotan a few years down the road.Looking around a bit, there's intriguing casting in Europe for a couple of performances of Die Walküre conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, aka the music director of the Metropolitan Opera. Tamara Wilson as Brünnhilde, Solomon Howard as Hunding, Elza van den Heever as Sieglinde, Brian Mulligan as Wotan, Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Siegmund. I'm not sure I buy the latter, and this seems a […]
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