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Virtual Ojai Talks with 2022 Music Director @RunningAMOC founders @aucoincomposer and @zackwinokur
https://youtu.be/V4Ie8TMeMs4 via @YouTube
it's true that this album features an utterly deluxe liner note by @RichieHof. you gotta order the CD to read it!! @RunningAMOC @BMOPmusic https://twitter.com/RichieHof/status/1478399687422103559
I was honored to write the note for @aucoincomposer’s ORPHIC MOMENTS album from @BMOPmusic http://www.bmop.org/audio-recordings/matthew-aucoin-orphic-moments
I was honored to write the note for @aucoincomposer’s ORPHIC MOMENTS album from @BMOPmusic http://www.bmop.org/audio-recordings/matthew-aucoin-orphic-moments
"Curiouser and curiouser"...watch @aucoincomposer and @ZWinokur on what's in store for Ojai in June 2022 with @RunningAMOC
https://youtu.be/PAFYAWLhb8w via @YouTube
Fashionably late as usual with my SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT…and since we already opened Meistersinger this week at the Met, and since it’s Halloween weekend, I’ve also included shots of my costumes from my return to the opera stage…BONUS!
Also check out my updated website (link in bio) which is back after a covid-induced “sabbatical.”
@metopera @dieoperkoeln @cal_performances @pcmsconcerts #newmillenniumseries @indy_symphony @conorlhanick
#diemeistersingervonnürnberg #david #grimoaldo #rodelinda #bènèdict #béatriceetbénédict #obadiah #ahab #elijah #dieliebunddasleidabendliedontour
Hey Paul, I didn't get a chance to say hello to you earlier since you were talking to your friend at the stage door, but wanted to congratulation you for the super charming and fun David in the performance. Saw you years ago in SF, and thought highly of your very physical performances and singing, and loved the David and your interactions with Volle and Kranzle. Bravo!
Looking great Paul! 🥰
Gorgeous Photo!
Handsome!
Brilliant performance last night.
Mr. J. thinks you’re looking snazzy.... keep up the good work. DOEHT. 🎶
Very nice. Who shot them? I need new head shots.
Great photo of you.
Fashionably late as usual with my SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT…and since we already opened Meistersinger this week at the Met, and since it’s Halloween weekend, I’ve also included shots of my costumes from my return to the opera stage…BONUS!
Also check out my updated website (link in bio) which is back after a covid-induced “sabbatical.”
@metopera @dieoperkoeln @cal_performances @pcmsconcerts #newmillenniumseries @indy_symphony @conorlhanick
#diemeistersingervonnürnberg #david #grimoaldo #rodelinda #bénédict #béatriceetbénédict #obadiah #ahab #elijah #dieliebunddasleidabendliedontour
So much fun to be back singing on the @metopera stage with my friends in the @metorchestra and @metoperachorus !! Looking forward to our opening performance of MEISTERSINGER on October 26.
đź“·: Jonathan Tichler
#themetisback #wagnerisfun #sitzprobe #opera #operasingersofinstagram #germanopera #deutscheoper #schumacherei #poeterei #david❤️lene
A little #Vorgeschmack of @conorlhanick and my @parkavearmory recital this coming Monday and Wednesday which is the very first listing in @zwoolfe 6,400 word fall arts preview for the @nytimes (which was listed in order of cultural importance, not chronologically) and who called me “young” #blessed
#lieder #artsong #schubert #Eflat #operasingersofinstagram
Join @conorlhanick and @paulapplebytenor for an evening of German Lieder featuring Beethoven’s “An die ferne Geliebte” and Berg’s Altenberg Lieder op. 4 alongside songs of Schubert and Schumann on September 20 and 22 at 7:30pm at the @parkavearmory
#lieder #liedersingersofinstagram #beethoven #berg #schubert #schumann #dieLiebe #dasLeid #fĂĽrdieEntfernte #artsong #songrecital #boardofofficersroom #classicalmusic #operasingersofinstagram #pianistsofinstagram #deadwhiteguys #alivewhiteguys #4lap #thingstodoinnyc
Lucky to be back in the Big House this week to rehearse for our concert in Central Park @summerstage tomorrow…so great to see my friends in the rehearsal department and the security crew. And to make music in List Hall again with great colleagues and musicians. Everyone in the building is working their hardest to make the coming season a success. Thanks to all of you who have supported the @metopera through thick and thin. It takes faith that the work we do is worth it…thanks all the amazing people who work in this building for keeping it alive and giving us hope for the future. #themetisback #suportthearts #operasingersofinstagram
So happy and relieved to be a Met singer again! Join @willie1525 @bryanwagorn @leahhawkins__ in Central Park tomorrow evening for some fun. Singing fun stuff—I’m leaning into Broadway…Jean Valjean might even show up! • •
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@metopera This weekend, the Met returns to @centralparknyc as part of the @CapitalOne @CPFNYC @summerstage Festival. On August 8 at 7PM, three audience favorites— soprano @leahhawkins__, @paulapplebytenor, and baritone Will Liverman (@willie1525)—headline a free concert of arias and duets, with Met assistant conductor @bryanwagorn accompanying at the piano. No tickets necessary; seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Learn more at metopera.org/SummerStage.
Photo by Chris Lee / Met Opera
Somehow Wu Han and I kept our cool despite the record temperature for our outdoor Winterreise. Big thanks to @schubertclub and their dedicated audience for sticking with us through sticky weather!
Paul and @sjmpiano perform the opening song of Winterreise. Paul performs the cycle with Wu Han presented by the @schubertclub of St. Paul, MN on June 5.
When these cool 3D models of composers came out a while back a number of people told me I looked like the young Brahms so I had to make a photo comparison while I still had my 19th century coif. (And I threw in my mustache headshot for good measure...miss that mustache :•|))
This is my elegy for my pandemic hair and mustache. I leave tonight for the Cincinnati May Festival followed by my first Winterreise with the Schubert Club in St. Paul—my first gigs since my last haircut nearly 15 months ago. I always wondered what I’d look like with long hair and now I know: David Crosby (tm). Luckily my gigs consists entirely of Schubert songs—no better way to return to the stage. Paul Simon is another favorite and fitting song writer for today.
It has been a difficult year, but it’s alright.
Thanks to my friends at @nyfestivalofsong for letting me contribute to The Song of the Day blog this past week. I was grateful for the artistic outlet and hope you listen to the songs about the moon I picked. Link to the blog in my bio. •
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#songaboutthemoon #sotd #nyfos #ruthcrawfordseeger #hughescuenod #jandegaetani #moonman
Tune it. I loved being David. He might get a little over-enthusiastic at times but he sure loves singing and melodies and training to be a Meistersinger. I’m looking forward to revisiting this classic production, and especially will be thinking with admiration and sadness of the great Walter, Johan Botha who taught me a lot about singing Wagner. RIP JB.
Some good news! @runningamoc has been named the @ojaifestivals Music Director for its 2022 festival!
#TBT to “Girls of the Golden West” at @sfopera. I’m looking forward to reprising the role of Joe Cannon next season with the @laphil!
#TuesdayTune: Take a listen to “Dear Theo”, a song cycle by Ben Moore, released on Delos Music in 2014. I collaborated on this album with Brett Polegato, @sopranosusannaphillips, and Brian Zeger. The album also features two other song cycles by Moore.
#tbt Remembering the time I sang the title tole in Bernstein’s “Candide” at @carnegiehall in April 2018. 📷: @chrisleephotonyc
Recently announced! I’ll be performing the role of Joe Cannon in John Adams’ “Girls of the Golden West” with the @laphil during their 2020-2021 season exactly one year from today! This powerful opera, set in the California Gold Rush, also features @_juliabullock, @alsoanoperasinger, @hera.hyesang.park.soprano, @elliotmadore, @dcecimac and @ryanmckinny.
Goodbye Madrid! Thank you all the wonderful people who make the @teatro_real such a welcoming and supportive place to work and make opera. I’ll miss my colleagues, the food, and Tamino’s Superman wig. ¡Hasta la próxima! •
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#madrid #koskyflute #tamino #operasingersofinstagram #homewardbound
Tonight is my last performance of “The Magic Flute” with @teatro_real!
I didn’t get out and about in Madrid as much as I would have liked for this trip to the beautiful @teatro_real, but I’m so glad I got this amazing taste of Spanish culture: ¡Flamenco! Such amazing dancers and musicians! Truly fierce! Thanks to my high school drama teacher #NaomiUnger for taking for coming all the way from Vienna to see my Tamino, and for taking me to @las_tablas •
#madrid #flamenco #culturevulture #operasingersofinstagram #olé
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