“Operatic performers quickly learn how to make a declaration of love, to suffer, to meditate, to die, and so on, and they repeat these forms in all analogous situations that they happen to be in. These are well-known, rubber-stamp effects. Nearly everyone knows them all, and speaks of them scornfully, yet…a majority of singers go […]
Author Archives: Cecily Carver
Cecily Carver is a Seattle-based writer and a former blogger for the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. She writes about books, opera, the piano, and other subjects for her weekly newsletter, The Amateur.