Monday, June 27, 2022

Figaro MDLO IG Take Over

 Hey Folx!


I have been elected to host an Instagram #takeover by Maryland Lyric Opera

Starting at 10 AM today (Monday June 27th 2022)

Follow along on Instagram Marylandlyricopera on Instagram


Browse link below for more details https://mdlo.org/performances/the-marriage-of-figaro/

Check out my IG @joebrenttenor 


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Sunday, May 29, 2022

Learning Don Basilio - Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart/Daponte) III

This is the third video of my recitatives!


Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

Best wishes,
Joe

Learning Don Basilio - Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart/Daponte) II

This is the second video of three of my recitatives!
LET'S LEARN SOME RECITATIVI



Hope you're enjoying these tutorials.

Best wishes,
Joe

It's 2022 and we're off to the races

 Dear Readers,


There has been so much going on, and I've been regrettably out of practice in updating this blog - though, I have no hubris to imply that I ever was in practice. 

A brief re-cap of 2022 up to this point:

In February, I was contracted to sing Pang in Maryland Lyric Opera's Production of Puccini's Turandot. It was a perfect segue back into performing after at two year hiatus.

In March, I sing for the Metropolitan Opera Guild and playing bass in New Jersey Lyric Opera's production of La Boheme.

Musically speaking it has been an absolutely marvelous way to get things back on their feet. I am happy to also share that in the fall of 2021 I was invited (and accepted) to be on the roster of the burgeoning Artist Management company Atwater Reed Artists. 

In May I will be heading down to Maryland yet again to sing Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro with MDLO, and an outrageously fantastic cast! Later in the year I will be singing Des Grieux in Manon with the Taconic Opera. 

Below is a little video (1 or 3) for you to enjoy... it's somewhat of a tutorial.. 


 
*In one of the videos I mention an incorrect date. Le Nozze was premiered on 1786 not the 1760's (Mozart was precocious, but being born in 1756 would have made him barely ten going on my mistake)