A Voice on Fire!
Agnes Baltsa launched her career as a top-tier technician well-suited to Mozart and bel canto, before becoming one of the most intense and idiosyncratic interpreters of dramatic roles like Princess Eboli and Carmen. As the grandiose Greek mezzo-soprano reaches a milestone birthday in November, the team inducts this exciting singing actress with an instantly recognizable tone into the OBS Hall of Fame.
In the Two-Minute Drill, Adams’s Girls of the Golden West leads the Grammy’s best opera recording race by virtue of featuring the most Friends of the Show and the NY Phil finally dismisses two problematic principals. Plus a Good Call for Opera Colorado’s Drag Duchess.
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