After a very intense period of score study, I’m about to leave for Amsterdam to start rehearsing Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori’s Blue which will have its European Premiere at Dutch National Opera in November. This devastating work tells the fictional but all too familiar […]
In the several weeks since I was last in London for the Children’s BBC Prom, I’ve been mostly immersed in preparations for my debut at Dutch National Opera with Jeanine Tesori’s Blue, but I did take a week off to return to London to conduct […]
This weekend, toward the very end of July 2022, brings to a close a really enjoyable fortnight of music-making for me in the U.K. that not only took me back to the BBC Proms for the first time since 2019, […]
Just one week to go before rehearsals at Boston Lyric Opera for Terrence Blanchard‘s Champion start! This will be my second jazz-infused opera in a row, following Kris Defoort’s The Time of Our Singing at Belgian National Opera and, once […]
As inspiring and aspirational as the concept of the La Maestra International Conducting Competition was, the experience was even more so! Enriched by the superb and supportive Paris Mozart Orchestra, overseen by a wonderfully efficient administrative team and witnessed at […]
Next week, I’ll be returning to Paris for the first time since the pandemic started, to be a Jury member at the La Maestra International Competition for Women Conductors. This unique and important competition, along with its Academy, was launched in […]
Back in April of 2021, I was contacted by Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) about their upcoming production of Terence Blanchard’s first opera, Champion (2013). I was aware of Terence not only as a Grammy Award winning trumpeter and longtime compositional collaborator of Spike […]
There’s so much going these days that it’s time for another update post! After the success of The Time of Our Singing, at La Monnaie in Brussels, which ended its run in late September 2021, I turned my attention to […]
Back in June 2021, out of the blue, I was invited by Canadian Broadway performer Denis Lambert, to be on The Voracious Student, his bi-monthly podcast focusing on acting, music, dance, spirituality and show business. When his email invitation arrived, I […]
After a three-year-plus journey from the first workshop rehearsal in March 2018 in Philadelphia to the Premiere in Brussels on September 14, 2021, The Time of Our Singing, Kris Defoort’s operatic exploration of cultural identity and the music that expresses it, finally […]
