Opera Online- Tea:A mirror of Soul Week 3

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Welcome students and teachers to Opera Online. This week we will continue our voyage through the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s production of Tea: A Mirror of Soul. We will continue to look at the world acclaimed cast and a scene from the opera written by Tan Dun.

YouTube Clip of the Week

I thought that today we should take another glimpse at the music in the opera Tea: A Mirror of Soul. We will look at the scene of Lan’s death from the world première at Suntory Hall, Japan.

Tan Dun: Tea: A Mirror of Soul, Death of Lan

Web Site of the Week

Soprano Kelly Kaduce plays the role of Princess Lan in Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul; the same role she sang in the opera’s U.S. premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2007. Kaduce made her OCP debut as Caroline Gaines for the East Coast premiere of Richard Danielpou and Toni Morrison’s Margaret Garner .

To find out more about Ms.Kaduce, visit her web site where you will find information about her life, recent recordings, and upcoming performances.

Opera on the Air

On Saturday, January 23rd at 1pm WRTI radio will broadcast the Metropolitan Opera’s production of the world première of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. The original cast includes Eleanor Steber as Vanessa, Nicolai Gedda as Anatol, Rosalind Elias as Erika, Regina Resnik as the Baroness, Giorgio Tozzi as the Doctor and George Cehanovsky as Nicholas.

This might give you a taste of what is to come as The Opera Company of Philadelphia in association with The Curtis Institute of Music presents the opera Antony and Cleopatra by Samuel Barber this March!

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Until next time …

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