Just in: Seattle picks Fire in my Bones chief
OperaSeattle Opera has named James Robinson, artistic director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, as its next general and artistic director.
Robinson, 61, is best known for directing Terence Blanchard’s opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones at the Metropolitan Opera, the company’s biggest contemporary box-office hit this century.
Previously, he won a Grammy for directing Porgy and Bess at the Met.
Taking over in Seattle next month, he succeeds Christina Scheppelmann, who is going to La Monnaie in Brussels.
Fine Director and talented gentleman
Those eyebrows cannot be true?!
I just saw an excellent “Pagliacci” in Seattle. I wish they would do more classics instead of all this woke programming like everyone else post-Covid. Just do Madama Butterfly with a black Cio-Cio-San I don’t care.