New interviews in Home page

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

We have just published an interesting and detailed interview on operatic education, with Dr. Marilyn Taylor, Chair of the Voice Department at the A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (and also a member of Opera Lively), and her student Mr. Richard Ollarsaba, a promising young bass.

Read it here:

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...-and-a-student

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

There is another new interview today, with Erick Mitchko, the general director of the North Carolina Opera.

Read it here:

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...-from-NC-Opera

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

1 hour and 10 minutes before the end of the planned grand opening day, Anna Netrebko came true for us.
Her interview is in. It's short, folks. Really short.
But hey, it's genuinely exclusive, just for Opera Lively, and I'm thrilled anyway! After all, it's Anna La Bellissima!

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...-Anna-Netrebko

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

There is a new interview on the Home page with the young and attractive cast for NC Opera's upcoming production of Philip Glass' opera Les Enfants Terribles. These four singers gave us very interesting answers - the article is long because it contains four interviews, but I find it all very interesting, read it!

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Les Enfants Terribles

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

And here is my other interviewee

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

This article on the Home page contains an interview with young and promising soprano Karin Schwecke.

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...t-the-Fletcher

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

This article contains an interview with Maestro James Allbritten, artistic director and principal conductor of Piedmont Opera:

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[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

We have two new and exciting interviews on the Home page, Section Widget, under Exclusive Interviews (or you can click on their names below and you'll be taken to the interviews):

Extraordinary American opera composer (who also composed symphonies, chamber music, etc) Robert Ward, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his admired opera The Crucible, a delightful gentleman

Young tenor René Barbera who won both teh Met Council National Auditions and the prestigious international Operalia competition organized by Plácido Domingo.

Don't miss these very interesting interviews!

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

There is an interview with maestro James Meena addressing Eugene Onegin, and the accomplishments and struggles of a regional opera company. It's been placed for now together with the Eugene Onegin articles, for convenience. Later it will be moved to the Interviews section. For now, see it here:

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...ro-James-Meena

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

Russian soprano Dina Kuznetsova granted us a delightful interview, read it here:

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...ina-Kuznetsova

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

Another new interview is up, with Armenian tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan (don't miss his terrific Lensky's aria which is included as an YouTube in the interview):

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...he-Manucharyan

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

We have published an interview with American mezzo-soprano Dawn Pierce.

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...zo-Dawn-Pierce

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

New interview with Russian baritone Vasily Ludyuk:

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...-Vasily-Ladyuk

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

New interview with American mezzo-soprano Janine Hawley:

http://operalively.com/forums/conten...-Janine-Hawley

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

I spent today 56 minutes interviewing Mr. Thomas Hampson for Opera Lively. His answers are quite interesting, and he demonstrates keen intelligence and profound knowledge of the art form.

In the next few days I'll be transcribing the material and submitting a draft for his appreciation and revision, then we'll have it published on the Home page. It may take a few days, but it is coming.