Sitting at JFK International waiting to board a flight to Trinidad for the Xmas holidays, I’m filled with gratitude for a 2025 that has surpassed every anticipation I had at its outset in Amsterdam twelve months ago. Four successful operatic productions, an energetic and auspicious inaugural season with...

I’m writing this post just days before my debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.  This event alone would illuminate any season, but the last few months had already seen many other highlights: items on a longstanding podium-wishlist, joyfully ticked. Share the stage with the great Gil Shaham: Check!...

As I write this, I’m enjoying a short but welcome break before the start of final rehearsals for the revival of Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with a filmic curiosity called Yes, Giorgio a...

Right after the Gala with Gil Shaham, I headed to Washington D.C. to continue my work with Washington National Opera (WNO) at the Kennedy Centre, site of last season’s exhausting but wonderful Washington Marathon with Porgy and Bess. Incidentally, I recently learned that the performance at which I,...