Louis he is also a Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist. He appeared in the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival premiere of Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Twin Stars: Diamond Variations for Dae’Anna, and in William Grant Still’s Highway 1 at Opera Theatre St.

This passionate American tenor made his solo debut at the Metropolitan Opera last year with Terence Blanchard’s groundbreaking Fire Shut Up In My Bones.

Next up: English National Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City! Her downward tones were exquisite and they became multicolored jewels as they spun out over the audience…”įun Fact: Ginger has performed as Carmen for more than 8 major opera companies – including the Glimmerglass Festival and premiere companies in Seattle, San Francisco, Tokyo, Mexico City, and Detroit – with three more on the boards this year. Singing Praises: Opera Wire wrote of her performance with San Diego Opera, “This artist’s Carmen knows her worth and will live her life her own way.

One of the most versatile artists of her generation, she has also performed in Nixon in China at the San Francisco Opera and performed the lead role in the American premiere of Montsalvage’s adaptation of Puss in Boots, with the Gotham Chamber Opera. She made her New York stage debut performing the role of Rosette in Massenet’s Manon and her European debut at the in Barcelona as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana. Originally from Sicily, Ginger is a graduate of the New York Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Program and is a Samling Scholar. We’re about to present the same scandalous version, in English, for one night only at Jazz at Lincoln Center! So you be the judge… and now here’s a look at our amazing cast, who’s in the rehearsal room as we speak! Tickets start at just $30. Bizet died in 1875, thinking Carmen was a terrible failure – audiences felt its racy plot “dishonored a stage dedicated to the delicate pleasures and sentiments of polite society.”

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