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Classical Music
Janelle Gelfand on the classical music scene


Janelle's pen has taken her to Japan, China, Carnegie Hall, Europe (twice), East and West Coasts, and Florida. In fact, Janelle was the first Enquirer reporter to report from Europe via e-mail -- in 1995.

Janelle began writing for the Cincinnati Enquirer as a stringer in 1991 while writing a Ph.D. dissertation in musicology at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She joined the Enquirer staff in 1993.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she graduated from Stanford University, Janelle has lived in Cincinnati for more than 30 years. In her free time, this pianist plays chamber music with her circle of musical friends in Cincinnati.

She covers the Cincinnati Symphony, May Festival and Cincinnati Opera, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, chamber music ensembles, and as many recitals and events at CCM and NKU as possible.

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

A Day at the Opera







Traipsing along behind Evans Mirageas, Cincinnati Opera's artistic director, for today's story was an eye-opener. We began in Evans' trendy downtown loft apartment, where the happy homemaker made us (the opera's Jennifer Bellin and me) a batch of scrumptious whole wheat muffins. He showed off the art on his walls (the company's longtime scenic designer Jay Depenbrock's sketches from a 1980s production of "Onegin," local artist Susan Lambert's Eiffel Tower and a nice abstract by Tom Levine, Jimmy's brother). Then we were off for the day!

What followed were: meetings, meetings and more meetings. Outside of Music Hall, a conversation was going on entirely in French, as the French cast assembled for a "meet and greet" upstairs. Above, you see Evans talking with a couple of lighting interns, Patty Beggs (general director and CEO) chatting with guild member Lois Brenner -- and what appears to be chorus director Henri Venanzi's back -- at the wonderful brunch spread, provided by the guild.

Then, Evans sits with a couple of tenors: Vinson Cole, who is singing the title role in "Hoffmann" and Mark Panuccio, for a cast orientation meeting (it's just like camp!).

Finally, there's a production meeting for "Hoffmann," with director Mark Streshinsky, right (doesn't he look like Jake Heggie??!!) and about 15 others in the production crew. This, all before noon.


1 Comments:

at 7/20/2006 03:12:00 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you for the behind the scene pictures, I always wonder what the opera stars doing off stage. It seems they are just like us.

 
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