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Tag Archives: Aria Umezawa
Closing show preview of what’s to come
My mantra is “I’m a lucky guy”. It’s admittedly designed to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, useful because you notice the good things happening to you if you begin with the belief in their likelihood, the presupposition of good fortune and … Continue reading
Framing the Pollyanna proposition
January is named for that two-headed god who is able to look ahead and back. As I ponder the wreckage of 2019 I wonder if Janus was too busy looking down at his phone and not watching where he was … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Music and musicology, Personal ruminations & essays
Tagged 887, Against the Grain Theatre, Alaina Viau, Amplified Opera, Aria Umezawa, Book of my shames, crystal pite, Dawn Jani Birley, Elisa Citterio, Gustavo Gimeno, Isaiah Bell, Joel Ivany, Johannes Debus, Jonathan Crow, Jonathan Young, Kiviuq Returns, Kopernikus, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Masaaki Suzuki, Musique 3 Femmes, Revisor, Robert Lepage, Rusalka, Sondra Radvanovsky, Tamara Wilson, Teiya Kasahara, The St Matthew Passion, Toronto City Opera, Wajdi Mouawad
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Amplified Opera —The Queen in Me
The title tells the story. Night #2 in the Amplified Opera opening concert series at the Ernest Balmer Studio was The Queen in Me, a performance piece straddling the line between surreal confessional and stand-up comedy, a brilliant piece of … Continue reading
AMPLIFIED OPERA @ birth: The Way I See It
I was among the audience present at the Ernest Balmer Studio for the birth of Amplified Opera, the brain-child of Teiya Kasahara & Aria Umezawa, in the first of three different programs to launch a new opera company. Directed by … Continue reading
Amplified Opera: interviewing Teiya Kasahara and Aria Umezawa
I have huge admiration for the two artists behind Amplified Opera (aka AO), namely Aria Umezawa and Teiya Kasahara, a new opera company. Aria directed L’hiver attend beaucoup de moi in March. Teiya was larger than life singing in Pomegranate in … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Music and musicology, Opera, Politics
Tagged Amplified Opera, Andrea Donaldson, Aria Umezawa, Ernest Balmer Studio, Kenneth Overton, Laurie Rubin, Liz Upchurch, Michael Mohammed, Rich Coburn, Teiya Kasahara, The Queen in Me, The Way I see it, Trevor Chartrand, What's Known to Me is Endless
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Ten questions for Aria Umezawa
Aria Umezawa is Artistic Director and a founding partner in Opera Five, an opera company that has been producing live opera & video. They’re (in)famous for their unpretentious sendups known as “Opera Cheats”, a relatively painless pathway to classics such … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Opera
Tagged Aria Umezawa, Ba-ta-clan, Jacques Offenbach, L’île du rêve, Mai Nash, Opera Five, Rachel Krehm, Reynaldo Hahn
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R.I.P.
“Requiescat in Pace” is the last line in the third of three operas presented by Opera 5, namely Cecilia Livingston’s The Masque of the Red Death, whereby we had the name for the evening’s program. I wonder if Poe’s story … Continue reading
Besame Opera
There’s lots of kissing in “Bésame Ópera”, the Spanish double bill from Opera 5 currently playing at Gallery 345. Sometimes it’s even human beings doing it. I feel lucky that, by a curious coincidence, the new work in Monday’s … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Aria Umezawa, Enrique Granados, Gallery 345, Goyescas, Maika'i Nash, Manuel de Falla, Opera Five, Rachel Krehm
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Opera Eats
There are more talented artists graduating from the programs training them than there are possible jobs. It’s one reason we have Fringe Festivals: because we’ve trained so many good young actors, directors & playwrights, that they can create their own … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Against the Grain, Aleko, Aria Umezawa, Cookie, Erin Stone, Essential Opera, Gallery 345, Hin und Zurück, Johnathon Kirby, Joshua Whelan, Justin Stolz, Milton Granger, Natalya Matyusheva, Opera Eats, Opera Five, Paul Hindemith, Rachmaninoff, Rigoletto, Talk Opera, Toronto Opera Collaborative, Volcano Productions, Young Gypsy, Zemfira
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