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Video interviews with NEA Opera Honors recipients and opera luminaries who have worked with them.
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Composer John Adams talks about his New England roots, the journeys that led him to settle in California, and the collaborative process behind such landmark works as Nixon in China.
Stage director and librettist Frank Corsaro talks about his career as an actor turned director and his long, rich association with the New York City Opera.
New York City Opera dramaturg Cori Ellison talks about the remarkable career of Julius Rudel.
Composer and NEA Opera Honoree Carlisle Floyd talks about the impact of conductor Julius Rudel on the development of his own work and his commitment to new Amercian works..
Composer Jake Heggie talks about the contributions to contemporary opera by NEA Opera Honoree Lotfi Mansouri, the general director of the San Francisco Opera from 1988-2001.
One of opera's most revered mezzo-sopranos talks about her storied career.
Pianist and accompanist Martin Katz talks about his long association with NEA Opera Honoree Marilyn Horne
One of opera's most influential general directors, Lotfi Mansouri talks about his journey to the U.S. from Iran and how he ended his medical studies to go on to a career that helped reshape American opera.
Choreographer Mark Morris talks about his collaborations with composer and NEA Opera Honoree John Adams, including the landmark production of Nixon in China.
Conductor Julius Rudel talks about his 22-year tenure as General Director/Principal Conductor of the New York City Opera, and his commitment to developing and promoting new American opera works.
Director Peter Sellars talks about his long association with composer and NEA Opera Honoree John Adams, including their collaboration on the landmark opera Nixon in China.
Writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak talks about his collaborations with director and NEA Opera Honoree Frank Corsaro, including stagings of The Magic Flute and Where the Wild Things Are.
Mezzo-soprano Frederica Von Stade talks about NEA Oera Honoree Marilyn Horne's extraordinary voice, her commitment to teaching younger artists, and wonderful laugh.
Mezzo-soprano Frederica Von Stade praises opera director Lotfi Mansouri's for his deep connection to the perfomers, his courage in presenting difficult new works, and for revolutionizing the audience experience with the introduction of surtitles.
Opera and theater director Stephen Wadsworth talks about how Frank Corsaro revolutionized opera performance in his years at New York City Opera.
Soprano Phyllis Curtin talks about her long association with with composer and NEA Opera Honoree Carlisle Floyd, in whose path-breaking operas she played leading roles.
One of the most admired opera composers and librettists of the last half century, Carlisle Floyd speaks in a uniquely American voice, capturing both the cadences and the mores of our society. Here he talks about his work, influences, and his dedication to training the next generation of opera artists.
Richard Gaddes has spent most of his professional life guiding two of the most important regional American operacompanies, the Santa Fe Opera, from which he recently retired as general director, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Gaddes looks back on a career that championed the development and promotion of new American opera.
Since he first took the podium at the Metropolitan Opera in 1971, James Levine has conducted almost 2,500 performances there -- a record number -- and his repertoire is equally staggering: 85 operas. He is noted for his collaboration with singers, but equally important is his work with the Met orchestra, which he has fine-tuned into one of the world's leading ensembles. In this interview, Mr. Levine taks about his remarkable career.
Playwright and opera lover Terrence McNally on the remarkable career of Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine.
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