Let me explain. Last night we shot Opera Atelier’s 25th anniversary image! It was the most complex shoot we have ever had involving ten artists in the photograph in addition to stage management, hair, makeup, wardrobe, our photographer Bruce Zinger, OA General Manager Jane Hargraft and our art director Gerard Gauci. We began hair and [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
I’ll give you another clue…
Many of you have responded to my blog in which I described our most recent photo shoot for the opera which will open Opera Atelier’s 25th anniversary season. We’ve had some extremely ingenious guesses as to the name of the opera in question but it would seem my hints have been too broad. I’ve decided [...]
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of an informal “staging session” with Canadian soprano Mireille Asselin
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of an informal “staging session” with Canadian soprano Mireille Asselin. She happened to be in Toronto visiting friends, prior to returning to Connecticut where she continues her music studies at Yale. I first met Mireille while conducting a masterclass for the Glenn Gould School and she, as a young [...]
The search for Andrew Kelley
Although I have little use for computers, I am nonetheless amazed at the impact they can have on my life when I least expect it. Let me explain. Years ago Jeannette and I had the pleasure of making a music video with Rhombus media. The filming took place over a three week period in Amsterdam. [...]