On October 26, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra performed their season opener concert at Wallingford’s Chapel Performance Space, featuring a delightful program of music by Hector Berlioz and Igor Stravinsky. Continue reading A Blissful Autumn Afternoon With the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra
Mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle’s long career has, so far, spanned 43 years, and the opera star is not slowing down any … Continue reading A Comedienne on the Opera Stage: Joyce Castle
Plowright has described her current roles as “witches and bitches, bags and hags.” Among them are the role she last sang here in 2008, Klytemnestra in Richard Strauss’s Electra, (definitely a bitch), the Ortrud she wishes she had been able to sing (“She’s a witch. I would have liked to sing Ortrud—I probably could get away with it at a pinch, but the angst isn’t worth it”), as well as the beggar woman in Sweeney Todd, (“she‘s a bag and a hag as well”). Continue reading A Conversation with Mezzo Soprano Rosalind Plowright
