Sevian’s long, fluid lines run counter to most contemporary baritone styles, which tend to lean toward the avant garde, supplementing and sometimes replacing lyricism with overblowing or other flashy effects. On Blueprint Sevian is no-nonsense and establishes herself as a fresh and important new...
Searching for Kristallnachtby Thomas Cabaniss at the JCC of Manhattan, Gary Papach’sThe Last Leafwith the North Czech Philharmonic in the Czech Republic, and Michael Dellaira'sThe Secret Agentwith The Center for Contemporary Opera at the Kaye Playhouse and at the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary...
OW: It seems to be quite fashionable, at the moment, to criticize and denigrate contemporary opera singers online. These so called “aficionados” or “cognoscenti” lament the voices of old, like Corelli and Del Monaco, and such. They lambast the voices of ...
His passion for contemporary music has seen John Savournin perform Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King for the Land’s End Ensemble, Calgary, and the Ossian Ensemble, Kagel’s …den 24.XII.1931 with the Warehouse Ensemble, The Boy Who Lived Down the Lane by Diana Soh at ...