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- bass-baritone
- United States of America
- opera singer, musician, performing artist
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 22:25:01
Visiting Aucoin’s Underworld
Boston area favorite-son composer Matthew Aucoin reached a pinnacle of recognition in November of 2021 at the Metropolitan Opera, where his opera Eurydice (book and libretto by Sarah Ruhl) vividly and artfully retold the Orpheus-plus myth from the tragedienne’s perspective. The underworld has never since been the same. “It’s not surprising that a tale about the greatest musician in history, a man who could make the very stones weep when he performed, keeps appealing to his descendants. The scenario offers composers a wedding party, a tragic death, an evocation of what lies beyond, an attempt at resurrection, a plangent lament — opportunities to shine, and to place themselves in a grand tradition.” NYT 2021 For the Boston Lyric Opera’s production, Aucoin reduced the orchestration demands considerably, but according to our interview subject, award-winning bass-baritone Mark S. Doss*, who plays the newly added role of Eurydice’s father, “…the sound is quite […]
2022-01-22 23:59:03
Inquirer.com: Bass-baritone Mark S. Doss is Créon and the Messenger in Opera Philadelphia's production of "Oedipus Rex" by Stravinsky; Livestream thru Feb. 20
Bass-baritone Mark S. Doss (center) as Créon and the Messenger, with (left) William Burden as Oedipus and Ethan Burck as the Shepherd in Opera Philadelphia's production of Oedipus Rex Friday in Verizon Hall. Corrado Rovaris conducts. (Dominic M. Mercier) The Philadelphia Inquirer by David Patrick Stearns, For The Inquirer January 22, 2022 Exactly 720 days had passed since Opera Philadelphia last performed for a live public — indoors — when the public filled 1,100 seats this frigid Friday for a double bill of less-than-familiar works in concert performances at the Kimmel Center. Listeners must’ve been hungry for it. Both the elegiac George Walker song cycle Lilacs (which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize, a first for a Black composer) and Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex are more known about than heard, but were given full-tilt resources with an orchestra of 93 (far larger than what could fit in any […]
2020-07-03 13:12:33
ThomaS Doss: REM-Scapes Context Composed in 2014, ThomaS Doss’ REM-Scapes for brass band is an eclectic mix of sonorous playing and extended techniques. The name of the piece refers to “Rapid Eye Movement” – which is a unique state of sleep seen only in mammals and birds. This phase is […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2019-04-15 18:59:00
Everlasting Love 天長地久
A classic of Cantonese cinema - Everlasting Love 天長地久, starring screen idols Hung Sin Nui (紅線女 ) and Ng Chor Fan (吳楚帆). What's the secret of its enduring appeal ? It premiered in 1955 at a time of unprecedented social change, when traditional assumptions were being challenged by new ideas. This film is more than a love story : it deals with fundamental human values in difficult times. The print may be aging but its message is relevant today.A train crosses countryside that is now mega city. Trains carried millions out of China into Hong Kong. The poorest of the poor though - came by boat from the Guangzhou delta or simply walked. Mui Ga Lei (played by Hung Sin Nui) is a country girl but not a peasant : her qipao is old fashioned but modest. Her father's died so she's come to Hong Kong to find her kinsman, […]
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