Tenor Michael Robert Hendrick made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Menelas in Richard Strauss’ Die Ägyptische Helena, followed by other engagements at the MET including the title role in Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten, as Bacchus in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos,, as Chairman Mao in John Adams’ Nixon in China, and as the Drum Major in Berg’s Wozzeck. Mr. Hendrick was […]
Songs of Pentecost this morning at St Mark’s. Stunning!!! While there were many stunning moments this morning, if you do nothing else, listen to the power of “Every Time I Feel The Spirit” with Michael Hendrick tenor! Starting at 18:50 Joel Carver, CEO, Carver Hotel Group https://www.facebook.com/stmarkslg
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Mandarin was Orange on Friday at the Bartók Plus Opera Festival, and even three. In the guest house of the Croatian National Theater we saw the tragicomic opera of Prokofiev, The Love of the Three Oranges. The production was clearly the highlight of the festival so far. The Hungarian audience, unfortunately, rarely has the opportunity
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The tenor Michael Robert Hendrick shone in ‘Masada’, no less moved and delivered, where the heroism of the people besieged in the Rock of Masada, Israel, is narrated, and when they are lost, they decide to commit suicide before they fall as slaves of Roman power. The longest of the whole work, inspired by the Jewish funerary
Never before has Schönberg received such an ovation in Zagreb By Jagoda Martinčević Saturday was one of unfortunately only two scheduled performances. More than 300 musicians performed in front of a full hall. The Zagreb concert season has just begun, and the event of the season has already happened. In the Vatroslav Lisinski Hall, Arnold Schönberg’s
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Sarasota Opera’s spot-on ‘Fidelio’ offers a change of pace Michael Robert Hendrick as Florestan, the prisoner and husband of Leonora, had strong moments of acting and singing… Hendrick was dramatically excellent. June LeBell YourObserver.com America’s most Italian of opera houses was transformed into a real Beethovenhalle this past weekend when Sarasota Opera presented a spot-on
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The Strathmore performance, conducted by Piotr Gajewski and starring Michael Hendrick and Christopher Trakas as Judah and Manfred, took place on Saturday night, the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass,” when Nazis systematically attacked Jewish-owned businesses and buildings throughout German and Austria. In 2005, the opera “Lost Childhood” had a read-through, with singers and
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LOST CHILDHOOD OPERA AND MEMOIR ARE LIFE CHANGING, TUGS ON HEARTSTRINGS: It was virtually impossible to hold back the tears during Janice Hamer and Mary Azrael’s Lost Childhood, an opera that played to a packed house at the Music Center at Strathmore, for one day only, on Nov. 9. Published on: Wednesday, November 13, 2013
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The vocal cast is mostly composed of Brazilians and Mexicans, reinforced by American tenor Michael Hendrick as Parsifal and Russian soprano Olga Sergeeva as Kundry. El País (Madrid) May 26, 2013by Juan Ángel Vela del Campo WAGNER REJUVENATES IN MANAUS The Amazonas Opera Festival Celebrates the 200th Birthday of composer Richard Wagner with a Latin
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In the final tragic moments of Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men, a handsome, well-dressed woman began quietly weeping, continuing without letup until the end of the opera. “I’m sorry,” she said after the house lights came up. “I knew what was coming but I couldn’t help myself. It was just so powerful.”… Floyd’s 1970 adaptation
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