Just under the wire on the West Coast, a very happy birthday to George Frideric Handel...

Some very fond #Waybackwednesday memories from this dream-come-true role debut back in 2019 with my friends at Boston Baroque...

In the summer of 2003, I had the honor of representing the United States of America at the BBC Singer of the World competition in Cardiff, Wales. The competition is a sort of operatic Olympics, with singers coming from 20-25 nations to compete in the final rounds for a handful of prizes…

Wishing everyone (who celebrates it) all the best for a very happy Thanksgiving holiday with a bit of Copland. Here’s to more opportunities for fellowship and to finding more and more common ground on which we can gather together…

…Blake’s poem, The Piper, is about inspiration and where it comes from. Singing it here this week in Maine has had me thinking about creative inspiration in my own life, which is something I (like any artist) have grappled with over the years. While I have heavily relied on the tools of Julia Cameron’s Artist Way books over the years…

…When learning the cycle at Ravinia, there was a lot of critical discussion about this poetry, focused largely on Verlaine’s story after he wrote La bonne chanson. Some of the coaches seemed quite hung up on Verlaine’s homosexual history, and as a result were quite critical of the poems…