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Media Kit Location Media Kit Location Lakeside stage, Bregenz, Austria “Opera happens every day.” “Opera inspires, exhilarates and stimulates us every day, all over the world, in hundreds of spectacular settings.” —F. Paul Driscoll, Editor in Chief, Opera News “Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music.” — Lisa See, American novelist “!e combination of genius music, gripping drama and astonishing singing makes opera a uniquely attractive art.” — Sameer Rahim, cultural critic and editor Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome At a Glance MISSION STATEMENT Speaking with Authority OPERA NEWS is the preeminent source for opera enthusiasts worldwide. Noted as one of the most compelling authorities in the industry, OPERA NEWS is committed to providing its print, digital and live audiences with diverse, current and poignant insights into a continually evolving world of passion and drama. Sound Bites by MARIA MAZZARO Vital Stats AUDIENCE: Wallis 150,000 Giunta. This month, the mezzo sings Ti! any in Adams’s I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky for her Rome debut. TOTAL WALLIS GIUNTA’S MEZZO boasts then come back down again, a silvery top and a hearty mid- Mozart is non-relenting passag- CIRCULATION: range, both deployed with crisp gio singing. So for me, it’s a chal- diction in an ever-growing reper- lenge. It’s a good challenge.” toire of modern and classic roles. Alongside traditional gems, In November, she makes her Giunta likes to sing twentieth- German debut as Cherubino at and twenty-fi rst-century music. 100,000 Oper Leipzig, where her other In April, her fi rst Naxos recording assignments through June are was released — a new song suite Rossini’s Angelina, Siébel in Faust for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, and even a Valkyrie. A July debut Silent Film Heroines, by William in Frankfurt, as Mercédès in Perry. She has also sung world Carmen, follows. premieres in Canada by Dean FREQUENCY: An alum of the Met’s Linde- Burry and Andrew Ager, as well mann Program, which she com- as R. Murray Schafer’s Children’s pleted in 2013, the Canadian Crusade, in which “the audience began her studies in Ottawa and and the performers were all just Monthly Toronto, where her fi rst under- mingling around willy-nilly in a grad assignments were quintes- warehouse, and the scenes in the sential soprano roles — Mozart’s show would evolve organically Queen of the Night and Susanna. out of the crowd. It was one of Now, she says, “I have high notes, the most inspiring things I’ve ever but I can’t live there. It’s not that been a part of. And it was opera.” I have a bad technique and I’m Because of the “unbelievable” MALE/FEMALE: actually a soprano in hiding. The expanding defi nition of opera, most colorful part of my voice is Giunta never worries about the the middle. So if anyone ever says future of her art form. “I think to me, ‘I think you’re a soprano,’ I it’s very easy to say it’s bad right 52/48 say, ‘Well, yes, I am. A mezzo-so- now and the future is precarious, prano is just a different kind of so- but when in history has there not prano, and that’s the kind I am.’” been some sword hanging over Mozart continues to hold an the head of opera? Whether it’s important place in Giunta’s rep- a war, or a great depression, or ertoire. “I am very, very satisfi ed an industrial revolution, there’s MEDIAN AGE: singing Mozart operas, but I have always something. So we say now to work harder — as opposed to it’s worse than it’s ever been, but Britten or Rossini, which tends we don’t know. We didn’t live a MAKEUP MALIK AND HAIR: AFFAN 56 to lie pretty low and then go up, hundred years ago!” GUTTER CREDIT !" OPERA NEWS ! SEPTEMBER !"#$ Photograph by DARIO ACOSTA SEPTEMBER !"#$ ! 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