As you may already know, I will be singing the title role in Taconic Opera’s Nabucco later this month. Specifically I will be singing it on Thursday October 20th, 11 AM, Saturday October 22nd 8 pm, and Saturday October 29th 7pm. You can get your tickets here! Dan Montez and the rest of the great [...] Read more »
Russian Game Plan
So I have decided that I need to move from polyglot to superpolyglot. I am not sure how many languages are needed to be considered this, but I am not going to wait to find out. SO I am gonna learn Russian. I am telling you all, so you know I am doing it, and [...] Read more »
An Opera Primer: Part 2
Major Players at the opera When going to an opera, there are a multitude of people involved in making what you experience. Here is an incomplete list of the people who will be involved in this. For ease of writing I will refer to people that can be either female or male in the masculine [...] Read more »
An Opera Primer: Preface and Part 1
Preface: feel free to skip down to part one if you don’t want to read about where I got the idea A few weeks ago over dinner I was discussing my upcoming opera with some friends and my friend Tommy turned to me and said, Dan I have no idea what you are talking about. [...] Read more »
Opera Manhattan
I had the great pleasure of working with a new up and coming opera company in New York last week, Opera Manhattan. I sang the role of Scarpia for the first time in concert with them, and I have to tell you that it was a real pleasure. Professional through and through with musical standards [...] Read more »
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