In celebration of Black History Month, we asked Vinson Cole, renowned tenor and Creative Consultant and Director of Resident Artists, to share some of his favorite opera singers. Leontyne Price “One of the greatest singers of all time. She was the pinnacle of her repertoire. I was listening to an Aida on the Met station that she … Read more
by Dr. William Everett MAKING IT HAPPEN The unique challenges of 2020 have made us think up new and affirming projects in the midst of tremendous uncertainties and unknowns. I was honored and delighted to be part of one of these, Opera in Eight Parts, produced under the auspices of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. In planning and … Read more
by Dr. Martin Nedbal EXOTIC OR FAUX-EXOTIC? In the series “Opera in Eight Parts,” produced by Lyric Opera of Kansas City, I was asked to discuss nineteenth-century operatic nationalism and exoticism. There are many well-known operas associated with exoticism, the depiction of foreign, often non-Western places by European composers, and even more national works, in … Read more
by Dr. Alison DeSimone
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