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On "Going There" I spent three hours of my day today listening to my fellow young artists here in LA sing arias for each other, with feedback from our fearless leader Josh Winograde, whose job is the hiring of singers. These sessions are a chance for us to get up,...
One of the pieces of music that has haunted my mind (and by that I mean made my imagination run wild) since I was first exposed to it is Britten's Songs and Proverbs of William Blake. Written in 1965 for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the piece serves as a meditation on...
Today's blog post is less about a particular song and rather what I have been experiencing as of late after having made the move from New York City to Los Angeles, where I just joined the young artist program at LA Opera. It has been such a beautiful move in so many...
(from baritone Theo Hoffman -- Thanks, Theo, for your selections this week!) Today I travel to London to compete in Placido Domingo's Operalia! Because of his huge involvement in the zarzuela repertoire, there is a portion of the competition devoted to the genre. I've...
(from baritone Theo Hoffman. Theo participated as a 2014 Caramoor Vocal Rising Star in our annual residency at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY.) Today's post is a throwback Thursday to our Caramoor concert in 2014, Ports of Call. This song...
(from baritone Theo Hoffman) Jeff Buckley is the king of the heartbreak ballad. Your breakup playlist isn't complete without "Grace" or "Lover You Should Have Come Over," not to mention his absolutely definitive cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." His voice is...