On March 8 and 10 of next year, Melody Moore sings in both Il tabarro and Cavalleria rusticana in Dresden’s Philharmonie im Kulturpalast. The rest of the cast includes Brian Jagde, Lester Lynch, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Roxana Constantinescu, Khanysio Gwenxane, Simeon Esper and Alexandros Stavrakakis, with Marek Janowski leading the Dresdner Philharmonie.
These performances will be recorded for a future album release.
The Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (CAIC) hosted the Chicago premiere of soprano Melody Moore in the Penthouse of the Logan Center here in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon. The music was glittering and glorious, with Moore creating sumptuous sound and Shannon McGinnis offering able and astute support at the piano.
Melody Moore travels to Santiago de Chile to star in Puccini’s Tosca on July 13, 17, 21 and 23. Leonardo Caimi sings Cavaradossi and Elchin Azizov is Scarpia, with Konstantin Chudovsky conducting.
Tosca is one of Ms. Moore’s signature roles and she has received wonderful critical acclaim for it.
“Moore delivers a brilliant Vissi d’Arte that is very sensual, captivating and descriptive of the inner tumult that the Diva Floria has to face with the unwanted advances of Scarpia.”
Mountain Lake PBS
For more information and tickets, visit the website of Teatro Municipal de Santiago
“As so often with HOT productions, the evening’s highlight was the voices. As Tatyana, Melody Moore’s powerful, warm soprano set the opera’s moral compass — as soon as he heard her, Onegin should have known she would win out”
For most people, singing loud enough to project to a hall of 2,000 seats without amplification sounds impossible. Imagine doing it for nearly half an hour straight. In Russian.
That was Soprano Melody Moore’s challenge as she began prepping for her character Tatyana’s famous Letter Scene in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. When the curtain rises for the opening night of HOT’s upcoming co-production of the opera this Friday, it will be her first time performing the role for a full audience. Preparing for the role was no easy feat, Melody shared.
“Melody Moore brought a much-needed regality to Elisabetta, contrasting passion with repression, and thoughtful, provocative phrasing. Her aria at the tomb was a masterclass in phrasing, subdividing the lengthy aria into smaller, emotionally-motivated fragments.”
Harry Rose – Parterre.com
Katya Kabanova - Seattle Opera