'Carmen' returns to Met Opera in mixed revival |
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Associated Press via US News & World Report - March 2012 Former football player Keith Miller was a sexy Zuniga, Jose's military superior — you wondered why Carmen didn't run off with him rather than Escamillo. Read the article » |
Florencia en al Amazonas |
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Opera News - March 2012 As John Lennon put it, picture yourself in a boat on a river — that's the gist of Daniel Catán's Florencia en al Amazonas. Unlike that Beatles song, there were no tangerine trees or marmalade skies in Opera Colorado's Spanish-language production (seen March 27). But there could have been, since the Mexican composer was inspired by the magic realism of Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Catán's reliance on this blending of reality and fantasy offers a carte blanche to designers. Read the article » |
Former University of Colorado fullback KeithMiller becomes an opera singer |
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Denver Post - March 2012 They're the same drill really, football and opera. You make the team, put in the practice, and when the whistle blows you perform like your life depended on it. Still, they don't overlap much among fans. Chances are that half the people who read this story — it is about a football star who became a world-class opera singer — wouldn't know which NFL team has won the most Super Bowls. The other half couldn't tell you who wrote "Madame Butterfly." Read the article » |
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