VALIS at the MIT Media Lab has been a total blast! Tod Machover’s music is some of the most compelling and soulful I’ve ever had the privilege of singing and hearing, and the whole team is a DREAM to work with!
The VALIS team
I had a great time making my On Site Opera debut last week singing excerpts from The Magic Flute. I got to sing some First Lady and of course, Queen!
Thanks to my friend Sarah for getting this video and pics :)
It is a true dream come true to make my Queen of the Night debut with Mass Opera in Boston, MA at the Modern Theater. Not to get too mushy about it, but I remember sitting on my bedroom floor as a little kid, “singing along” to recordings of the Queen’s arias, never even DREAMING that one day I would be on stage singing this iconic role. Huge thank you to Mass Opera and Dana Varga for giving me the chance to step into the Queen’s badass crown.
Here’s a fun clip from our Sitzprobe with Dr.Lisa Graham conducting.
It was such a blast returning to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to perform on a program featuring works that tie music with landscape. I was delighted to sing The Log House by Anton Heinrich as well as the prologue to Lully’s Alceste. I’ve never been on such an eclectic program, featuring composers from Stravinsky to Gluck, to Caroline Shaw. So…. when can we do it again??
“Soprano Maggie Finnegan soared through “The thundering Fall! The bubbling stream…Nature’s whispers…trilling arpeggios.” One of the poet’s other lines could describe her singing “With wild sweet play,” and I would offer with dazzlement musically and virtuosically.”
Huge thanks to Megan Ihnen for inviting me to speak on her fantastic podcast Studio Class!
Watch the full Worldliness 1 Brooklyn Art Song Society concert free for a month using the code BASSFAM.
When I’m not singing opera, I love to spend some of my time as a Zoo Ambassador Volunteer at the Stone Zoo (Zoo New England). This week, during April Break, we educated over 500 kids about pollination… Did you know that the chocolate midge is one of the main pollinators of the cocoa plant? Next time you eat a piece of chocolate, spare a thought for the humble chocolate midge.
After a morning out and about, I have to agree with the river otters that it’s nap time :)
