Wm: Last year, you were in Santa Fe for the new production of Britten’s “Billy Budd”? What was it like working with Paul Curran the production designer-director and that cast?
LM: It was a truly great experience. Curran is an awesome director. Not only did I play the role of Donald, but I covered Teddy Tahu [...]
Entries from August 2009
Rising Stars: An Interview with Lucas Meachem, Part II
August 29th, 2009
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Rising Stars: An Interview with Lucas Meachem, Part I
August 24th, 2009
Wm: What life experiences did you have before you became an opera singer?
LM: My first job was at age 15, in swimming pool construction, but I always sang in church and in the house. I grew up in the tiny town of Carthage in South Central North Carolina, where there are no inter-urban freeways.
I always [...]
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Astonishing End to Seattle Opera’s “Goetterdaemmerung” – August 14, 2009
August 16th, 2009
Seattle Opera concluded its first cycle of Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelungs” with “Goetterdaemmerung”, the longest and most ambitious opera in opera’s standard repertory. The daunting requirements of this piece tax any opera company producing it. Not only did Seattle Opera succeed admirably, it seems certain that no opera company has ever achieved the razzle [...]