This Moment in Opera

Want to hear the future of opera?  Director of Artistic Planning Edward Yim, Dramaturg Cori Ellison, and Producer Beth Morrison discuss their selections for this year's VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab.  Listen as they detail the process for choosing the pieces that will have the chance to perform at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts with the entire New York City Opera Orchestra.

 

Director of Artistic Planning Edward Yim sits down with Shu-Ying Li and Yunah Lee, both performing the role of Cio Cio San in this season's production of Pucinni's Madama Butterfly.  Shu-Ying and Yunah discuss the beauties and challenges of performing one of the most famous roles in opera, both as opera singers and Asian women.

 

 

How do you turn a short story from the Bible into an operatic masterpiece?  Few people know better than Charles Kondek, librettist of Hugo Weisgall's final opera, Esther.  In this second in a series on Esther, Dramaturg Cori Ellison sits down with Charles Kondek to learn how he brought Esther to life.