We sat down with Video Projections Designer S. Katy Tucker to find out her thoughts about Faust, inspiration, and her brush with one of the greats. North Carolina Opera: How did you get started in the arts? S. Katy Tucker: I studied fine art and thought I’d pursue painting or video installation art. In college [...]
Singers – I write to you in great anticipation of our upcoming inaugural season of the newly formed company, North Carolina Opera. The year promises to have many highlights, and I know that many of you have had to wait a while and are looking forward to the opportunity to perform with the opera chorus [...]
The North Carolina Opera announces house auditions in Carswell Recital Hall at Meredith College. If you wish to be considered for an audition, please submit a current biography and one page resume in MS Word or PDF format to auditions@ncopera.org. Please DO NOT submit audio or video files with audition request. Audition dates and times: [...]
May 9 is Mother’s Day – how about tickets to the June concert by the new North Carolina Opera at the new NC Art Museum? Part of the Arts in the Museum Park Concert Series, the new North Carolina Opera company will present Opera, Broadway and Zarzuela on Saturday June 12 at 8 PM. For its [...]
I love Opera Chic! She’s so in love with American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky that’s OC is offering a free download/preview of Sondra’s new Verdi All Arias CD coming out later this month on CD. However, I liked it so much I’ve gone ahead and bought it on iTunes. If you haven’t checked out Opera Chic, [...]
It’s like playing Where’s Waldo these days with North Carolina’s Artistic Director, Tim Myers! But we’ve got it on good authority that he’s working the March/April season in South Africa at the SA State Theatre and the Joburg Theatre conducting Opera Africa’s stage production of Puccini’s most popular opera, La Boheme. Here is Maestro Myers enjoying a little down time in South [...]
Scientists have cracked the genetic code of a songbird–the little Zebra Finch–for the first time, identifying more than 800 genes linked to song learning. Baby zebra finches learn to sing in virtually the same way as human babies learn to speak — by copying their mom and dad — which means the tiny bird should [...]
I love subtitles at operas; I think they’re a great innovation in opera. Does that make me an opera unpurist? Maybe, maybe not. Anyhooo, my opinion holds that it’s the best way to bring more fans into my fav art form. And that can’t be all bad. But of course, nothing is risk free. For instance, [...]
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin had never been performed in Alaska before last Saturday night. And who was conducting? Our own conductor far far from home, Timothy Myers! According to Mike Dunham of Alaska Daily News: “Non-singing counted for much here…notably the contribution of conductor Timothy Myers. Faced with a pared-down orchestra (nine violins total would be [...]
Last night was the coming out party for North Carolina Opera—the resulting company of the merger between OCNC and Capital Opera Raleigh. Formal wear was in order for the annual Opera Ball and Raleigh certainly glammed up nicely despite the frigid temperatures! Thanks to all who came out—what a fab party! Here are a few [...]