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In most musical Passion settings, the role of Jesus Christ is sung by a baritone or a bass.
But in William Cooper’s new Passion, Jesus will be played by a soprano.
“I thought giving the role of Jesus to a high soprano would set the character apart from the others and mark the character as being divine and other,” Cooper says.
He wanted to feature a female voice in his setting because women are largely silent in the Biblical texts.
“I was looking through the cast of characters in the gospel account,” he explains, “and all of the big speaking roles are male.”
April 1, 2021 | By Clive Paget,
Musical America
It looked set to be a gala year for Miles Mykkanen. The 29-year-old tenor made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Second Apprentice in the company’s new production of
Wozzeck, but when the run ended on January 22, 2020, lockdown was less than two months away.
I’d seen him twice previously, as a fabulously funny Flute in Robert Carson’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Opera Philadelphia in 2019 and singing Jonathan Dove’s
The End at the Marlboro Festival, the last of three summers he spent in Vermont making music with the likes of Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss. His clear, penetrating, lyric tenor comes with a winning stage presence, great comic timing, and a real way with words. Mykkanen’s is the kind of voice, you sense, that could develop in all sorts of interesting directions. Like a Wunderlich or a Gedda, he should flourish across a range of repertoire.
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Southern Plains Productions Artistic Director Shares Vision For Accessibility In The Performing Arts
The company s 2021 production of Small Mouth Sounds is taking place this May on the open-air Myriad Gardens Water Stage in Downtown Oklahoma City.by BWW News Desk
For 19-year-old Jackson Gifford, 2020 was a reminder that we need art today more than ever-to help us make sense of these turbulent times and to give us hope for the future. Last year Jackson founded Southern Plains Productions, a non-profit Oklahoma City theater company with a vision for accessibility in the performing arts. Our mission is to provide meaningful art for Oklahomans by creating accessible productions for people of all socioeconomic backgrounds, he said.
INTERLOCHEN — Interlochen Arts Academy dance students made Interlochen history this week as the first students to pirouette, plié, and soar through the air in the new Dance Center at