Playing the waiting game and staying optimistic: mezzo-soprano Catherine Daniel answers our Quarantine Questions. Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this "new normal"? "Adjusted is the word! Over the past two months I have seen my opera gigs...
The latest episode of The Everything Will Be Okay Podcast is released, this time featuring Opera Atelier co-Artistic Director Marshall Pynkoski. Pynkoski spoke with host Jenna Simeonov in the weeks shortly following the cancellation of Atelier's spring production,...
Canadian maestro Jordan de Souza is social distancing with family, from his home base in Berlin. He's mourning the temporary loss of communal music-making, but living his dream as a stay-at-home parent. Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this...
Neil Craighead is impressive in his keeping-busy projects. Parenting, cooking, building canoes - the bass-baritone is living well in the moment, as he answers our Quarantine Questions: Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this "new normal"? "I'm...
Sending our Quarantine Questions to Nova Scotia native Jane Archibald was a comforting exercise; the soprano is finding moments of peace and restoration amid the widespread closures. Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this "new normal"? "I've...
Mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh spent some scary weeks in San Francisco at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but she managed a flight home and now continues her work as a San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow, remotely. She answers our Quarantine Questions: Between...
Tenor Lawrence Wiliford takes on our Quarantine Questions, and responds with some sober truths about the opera and classical music industries, pre- and mid-pandemic. Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this 'new normal'? "The beginning of...
In our latest round of Quarantine Questions, Canadian soprano Teiya Kasahara is dealing with the loss of safety and security, but they're picking up new skills and finding trust in relationships: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "The opportunity to sing...
Baritone Elliot Madore is missing the catharsis of being a performer, but he's gained new purpose at home with his family: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "The suddenness and acceleration of my cancellations has led me to, initially, lose my sense of...
Despite the lost gigs, Canadian tenor Michael Schade is busier than ever. Michael Schade answers our Quarantine Questions from his home base in Vienna: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "I suppose the best thing I can report is luckily not my health and...
A chance purchase during one of her last contracts is bringing Adrianne Pieczonka some pandemic solace. The Canadian soprano answers our Quarantine Questions: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "What I've lost to the pandemic (other than engagements,...
Baritone Peter McGillivray knows well that he's in a great, big shared experience of insecurity with his fellow artists. He's balancing work with fun to pass the time, and he's answered our next set of Quarantine Questions: What is something you've lost to the...