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American opera singer
- mezzo-soprano
- United States of America
- opera singer
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[…] fantastique and Petrushka with circus choreography in an ongoing collaboration with The Muse in Brooklyn. A strong supporter of composers of our time, Blachly has commissioned and premiered more than 50 works from composers such as Jessie Montgomery, Courtney Bryan, Kirsten Vollness, Viet Cuong, Michi Wiancko, Kate Copeland Ettinger, Patrick Castillo, Brad and Doug Balliett, and many others. In recent seasons, he has collaborated with soloists Julia Bullock, Andrés Cárdenes, Michael Chioldi, Karen Kim, Andrew Yee, Owen Dalby, Janna Baty, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and more. He was the only conductor from the U.S. invited to participate in the 1st Annual Young Conductor’s Showcase as a part of El Sistema’s 40th Anniversary celebration, and is the co-founder of Make Music NOLA, an El Sistema-inspired program in New Orleans now in its 9th year. About the Experiential Orchestra and Chorus Founded by James Blachly, the New York City-based Experiential Orchestra and Chorus (EXO) takes as its […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-10-17 02:57:00
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1919), & The Song of the Nightingale | Henri Tomasi: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Tempest – Hunter Eberly, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Fabien Gabel – Friday, October 19, 2018, 10:45 AM EDT (GMT-4) – Livestream
[…] of the orchestra".The Concert for Trumpet became a 20th century international trumpet classic and was interpreted by a multitude of other excellent musicians including Pierre Thibaud, André Bernard, Guy Touvron, Eric Aubier, Wynton Marsalis, Sergei Nakariakov, Geoffrey Payne, Haruto Yoshida, William Forman, George Vosburhg, Gabriele Cassone, Mark Inouyé, David Bilger, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Giuliano Sommerhalder, Andrea Lucchi, Wolfgang Bauer, Alison Balsom, Sergiu Carstea, Hakan Hardenberger, and young French virtuosos, David Guerrier, Romain Leleu and Alexandre Baty.The warm, playful and joyous character of this work reflects one of the most happy and favourable periods of Tomasi's life, a post War time when he had regained faith in life and vigor and when his carrier became widely renowned in Europe: Conductor at the Concergebouw, creation of his operas in Munich, Bruxelles, Paris, etc... He composed the Concerto for Trumpet while he was the 1st conductor at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.Source: henri-tomasi.fr✻Igor Stravinsky: Le […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-05-23 21:51:16
Brits Provide Frivolity and Serious Fun
[…] The Bear. The stage design (by Stephen Dobay) is a simplified reflection of a large painting of the London Zoo. James Blachly conducted the orchestra and paced the work with aplomb. It is unlikely that The Zoo will find anything like the number of performances that Sullivan’s works with Gilbert receive regularly, but in this imaginative, colorful, and musically satisfying production it made a great companion piece for The Bear. Stephen Salters and Janna Baty (KathyWittman photo) The pièce de resistance of the evening was an utterly brilliant performance of Walton’s wonderful comic opera The Bear. Walton’s only previous operatic work was a large three-act opera, Troilus and Cressida, based on Chaucer rather than Shakespeare. He began composing the former in 1948, after Britten’s success with Peter Grimes showed that an English composer could succeed with an opera on a grand scale. It was produced at Covent Garden […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2012-09-02 05:23:58
[…] which is given any real sense of depth or developmental arch. Memphis, wittily portrayed by Baritone Thomas Meglioranza, provides some dark comic relief, particularly in the seventh scene’s “Edge World,” the opera’s equivalent to the Walpurgisnacht. Meglioranza’s voice was in good form — clear, authoritative, and perfectly merged with his character. Similarly, Infanta’s character lacked any dramatic arch. Fortunately, the static nature of her character, always sexy and ambitious, was portrayed perfectly by mezzo Janna Baty whose lush, lustrous, and lusty voice enriched the ensemble scenes with refined and syncretic blending. However, at the end of the opera one wondered that her character never experienced or expressed any regret for her actions. Ultimately, the libretto’s biggest weakness in characterization resides in the characters of Marina and Cybele, the two characters played by Jane Sheldon that represent the opera’s version of Faust’s Gretchen. Crockett has described Marina as “the ideal woman,” […]
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