The facilitation of this interview by the San Diego Opera and by the Dallas Opera is gratefully acknowledged. For the first part of this conversation, see: Rising Stars: An Interview with Stephen Costello, Part 1. Wm: In my interviews with John Relyea and Brandon Jovanovich, I have asked both about the impact of receiving the Richard [...]
Entries from April 2011
Rising Stars: An Interview with Stephen Costello, Part 2
April 30th, 2011
Tags: 2008-2012 William's Interviews
Rising Stars: An Interview with Stephen Costello, Part 1
April 29th, 2011
The facilitation of this interview by the San Diego Opera and by the Dallas Opera is gratefully acknowledged. Wm: You are from Philadelphia, a city with a long tradition in presenting opera, yet you’ve reported that your earliest musical memories are of Elvis Presley. At what point did you come to know about opera, and [...]
Tags: 2008-2012 William's Interviews
Costello, Perez, Grimsley and Mulligan Brilliant in Spectacularly Staged “Faust” – San Diego Opera, April 23, 2011
April 24th, 2011
The San Diego Opera, which last year brought together the husband and wife team of Stephen Costello and Ailyn Perez in an elegant production of Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette” (see Costello, Perez in Passionately Romantic “Romeo et Juliette” – San Diego Opera, March 13, 2010), triumphantly presented their return as Faust and Marguerite in “Faust”, Gounod’s blockbuster [...]