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Butterfly Live PhotoBlog: T-97
Cio-Cio San and her family members, getting ready for rehearsal with the NSO in the beautiful Concert Hall at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Read MoreDay 78: Tenor Robert Watson in the Artist Spotlight
During the 2015 season, the blog will feature interviews with our Filene Young Artists. Today we hear from tenor Robert Watson, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Bégearss in our July production of The Ghosts of Versailles. Which experience(s) most influenced your decision to become a professional singer? What’s the earliest point in your life that you can identify in pointing you
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Afternoon load-in: screens and stairs! (The latter, yet to be sunk into the pit:))
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Scenic elements coming off the truck, filling the scene dock.
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Madama Butterfly tech week begins with this morning’s 8am load-in. Stage of the Filene Center is full of lighting rig!
Read MoreDay 77: Richard, Mary & Adam
The American song-writing tour de force that is Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers and Adam Guettel was brought to life at The Barns yesterday and today. As always happens when Steve Blier works with our singers, the house overflowed with lyricism, wit, energy, storytelling and the occasional tear. Song lyrics may be found here!
Read MoreDay 76: Baritone Joo Won Kang in the Artist Spotlight
During the 2015 season, the blog will feature interviews with our Filene Young Artists. Today, we hear from baritone Joo Won Kang, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. Which experience(s) most influenced your decision to become a professional singer? What’s the earliest point in your life that you can identify in pointing you in this direction? It was quite
Read MoreDay 75: Bass Evan Boyer in the Artist Spotlight
During the 2015 season, the blog will feature interviews with our Filene Young Artists. Today, we hear from bass Evan Boyer. Evan’s big role of the summer was Ramfis in Verdi’s Aida in Concert, and we are enjoying luxury casting in Butterfly as he takes the role of the Bonze! Which experience(s) most influenced your decision to become a professional singer? What’s
Read MoreDay 74: Music and Art
Tonight, another inspiring evening of song and visual art at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the second of this summer’s Vocal Colors concerts. Soprano Amy Owens, baritone Morgan Pearse, and pianist Emily Senturia offered up 11 songs chosen to pair with artwork in the museum’s collection: “Let Beauty Awake” (Vaughan Williams/Stevenson) Red Sun (Miró) “Les filles
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