For our Sunday Arts profile, Rafael Pi Ramon interviews Martina Arroyo and takes a look into her “Prelude to Performance” workshops while the students are preparing for performances of La Boheme and Die Fledermaus beginning on July 16th at Hunter CollegeKaye Playhouse . For many years, Martina Arroyo was a star on the stages of the great opera houses of Europe as well as at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. At the Philharmonic, she was one of Leonard Bernstein’s favorite singers .
Alanis Morissette —angry/thoughtful lady-pop voice of the 90s—sometimes acts. She showed up as God in Dogma and a bisexual on Sex and the City . And now she’s appearing on Weeds for seven episodes. And we’re pretty happy about it. Why God why?, you may ask. Well, there’s just always been something beguiling about Ms. Morissette—her odd, alien-like Canadianism, her sad, wistful eyes—that we just like on screen. Anyway, here’s a picture of her as Nancy’s new gynecologist. Exciting. And,
BETTY ALLEN, OPERA SINGER AND EDUCATOR Chester Higgins Jr. Betty Allen performed with the Salem United Methodist Singers in the early 1970s. By MARGALIT FOX Published: June 25, 2009 Betty Allen, an American mezzo-soprano who transcended a Dickensian girlhood to become an internationally known opera singer and later a prominent voice teacher and arts administrator, died on Monday in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82. Betty Allen with composer
Training wheels for singers? No more…. Today pianist Erika Switzer and soprano Martha Guth launched Sparks and Wiry Cries , a podcast dedicated the world of the art song. Their goal is to bring awareness to an activity that is central to the art of the piano in ensemble, as well as to one of the most intimate, collaborative, and threatened genres of both piano and vocal classical music. From the Sparks and Wiry Cries website: The great passion in my career is the world of classical song.
