The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Steven Blier
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* Notes * The artistic director of New York Festival of Song, Steven Blier, presided over a Schwabacher Debut Recital entitled In the Memory Palace yesterday evening. The program included diverse selections from song cycles and vocal quartets with an underlying theme of courtship. Blier accompanied four Adler Fellows on piano. The structure of the evening…
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* Notes * The artistic director of New York Festival of Song, Steven Blier, gave a Schwabacher Debut Recital yesterday evening. Entitled Amores Nuevos, the program consisted of Spanish art songs, zarzuela arias and duets, Latin American art songs, and Latin American popular songs. As one would expect, Blier played piano for these selections, with David…
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* Notes * This year's Day at Merola was Tuesday, beginning with a lunch in Lower Level Café of the War Memorial Opera House. A couple of members of the Opera Standees Association who are also sponsors of tenor Alexander Lewis kindly invited me to join their table. Mr. Lewis conversed with us about how he…
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* Program * Thomson's "A Prayer to Saint Catherine"Alex Mansoori, tenor and Tamara Sanikidze, piano "Voici des roses" from La Damnation de FaustEvan Boyer, bass and Suzy Smith, piano Duparc's "Phidylé"Paul Scholten, baritone and Miaomiao Wang, piano "Piangete voi…Al dolce guidami" from Anna BolenaLara Ciekiewicz, soprano and Keun-a Lee, piano Weill's "J'attends un navire"Caitlin Mathes, mezzo-soprano and Stephanie Rhodes,…
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* Program * “Pierrot’s Tanzlied” from Die Tote StadtEugene Chan, baritone and Alan Hamilton, piano Debussy’s “Apparition”Ellen Wieser, soprano and Eileen Downey, piano Schubert’s “Erstarrung” from WinterreiseDarren Perry, baritone and Carl Pantle, piano Quilter’s “Now sleeps the crimson petal”Tyler Nelson, tenor and Allen Perriello, piano Weill’s “Youkali”James Rodgers, tenor and Dennis Doubin, piano * Notes * Yesterday evening New…
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