This is Volume 2 of Opera Lively's interview series with operatic artists. Once more, both seasoned international stars and rising young or regional singers, conductors, stage directors and composers share their insights with our readers. The detailed reports of two master classes are also included. Featured in Volume 2, Juan Diego Florez, Jay Hunter Morris, Diana Damrau, Olga Peretyatko, Isabel Leonard, maestro Marco Armiliato, maestro Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Lawrence Brownlee, Giuseppe Filianoti, contemporary composers George Benjamin and Kevin Puts, Susan Graham,...
This is Volume 2 of Opera Lively's interview series with operatic artists. Once more, both seasoned international stars and rising young or regional s...
"Written on Skin - Opera's New Masterpiece - If opera is a dead art form, somebody forgot to tell George Benjamin." Mike Silverman, AP
"Magic and irresistible... the best opera written over the last twenty years." Le Monde
"Feels like the work of a genius unleashed." Alex Ross, The New Yorker
"What can an opera do for us today? Very simple I think: move you... enchant... stir you... thrill you... just like four hundred years ago except we have to find new ways of doing it." George Benjamin, composer of Written on Skin
Opera Lively Press is proud to present the first guidebook...
"Written on Skin - Opera's New Masterpiece - If opera is a dead art form, somebody forgot to tell George Benjamin." Mike Silverman, AP