Blog
In Italy with Opera in Concert!
December 19, 2017
I am thrilled to announce that this summer (May 24-June 16) I will be studying and performing in Urbino, Italy with Opera in Concert!
Sesto, Vitellia, and the Space Between Binaries
December 14, 2017
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito displays the damage that the heavy-handed, fearful binarization of gender can cause, and models a love based on true understanding.
“Non so più, cosa son”
April 3, 2017
An English translation of Cherubino’s first aria from Le Nozze di Figaro, written for the 2017 Marriage of Figaro production at UT Dallas.
“Voi che sapete”
April 3, 2017
An English translation of Cherubino’s second aria from Le Nozze di Figaro, written for the 2017 Marriage of Figaro production at UT Dallas.
Discovering Cherubino
March 15, 2017
Beaumarchais’s original text included detailed character notes: “Chérubin” was to be played as “a charming young scamp, diffident only in the presence of the Countess.”
“Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein”
May 6, 2016
An English translation of Prince Orlofsky’s aria from Die Fledermaus, written for the Spring 2016 Opera Workshop at UT Dallas.
Persona and Shadow: Jungian Archetype as Character
December 10, 2013
Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) ... Third, that Alma and Elisabet are the same woman: that woman experiencing a split personality, an existential crisis, a loss of purpose, or all three.
Character Analysis: Citizen Kane and Hamlet
October 24, 2013
Where Hamlet takes on a questionable mission to fill up his isolation, Kane strives to control others since he cannot control himself.
