A Message from a Mezzo-Soprano

(I'm still having e-mail issues -- can receive but not send on my home computer, but I can send if I log on at the library or some other place. I probably won't fix this situation until after my vacation at the end of this month.)

On a Monday evening in April 2007 (2006?), I heard a fabulous recital by a team of student singers at the Peabody Institute: "Treasures of Russian Opera," part of a course in singing in Russian taught by Vera Danchenko-Stern. I've long since deleted the blog where I wrote a post about this recital, but I still have the program. I just heard from mezzo-soprano Ruth Carver, who sang Lyubava's Aria from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sadko." I realize that since then, I heard Ms. Carver in Peabody's "The Rape of Lucretia" as Bianca last year, too. (Is there a misprint on the Russian program? The recital seems to have been a couple of years ago, but 2007 is printed in the program -- April 30, 2007.)

Ruth Carver's new site is now linked on the Singers' Page of this blog. (Thanks for contacting me!) She is on her way to Europe, where, among other things, she will sing the Witch in "Hansel and Gretel" at Schloss Henfenfeld in Germany.

(I'm still restoring links and working on the Singers' Page.)