Fidela and I were in Santa Fe, NM (we bought a condo there a few years ago, and find ourselves spending more and more time there) having lunch in a favorite restaurant when this man walked by. I said to Fidela “That is Bruce Donnell.” She said “Are you sure?” He came back by the […]
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Mitchell Lathrop ’55
Mitch was reelected President of the Metropolitan Opera National Council at the Council’s meeting on March 11, 2016. Each year, between September and March, the Council auditions between 1,200 and 1,500 aspiring opera singers between the ages of 20 and 30 from throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The ultimate winners, usually between […]
Bruce Donnell ’63
I am directing Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri for the Livermore Valley Opera. Gene Kirkham ’63 and his wife, Katrina, will be attending the second performance and it will be good to see them. In April, I’ll be working at the Shepherd School of Music (part of Rice University) in Houston and I am looking forward […]
Bruce Donnell ’63
The “Le nozze de Figaro” directed this summer by Bruce Donnell at the Santa Fe Opera “displayed taste and refinement” and “was a success across the board” (The Santa Fe New Mexican). Bruce spent two weeks in September teaching at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston and looks forward to a […]
Bruce B. Donnell ’63
Bruce Donnell will be directing a revival of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro for the Santa Fe Opera this summer. Bruce has directed many productions over the years for the Santa Fe Opera and first worked there on the stage crew during the summer of 1967. That was a memorable summer in that the theater […]
Mitchell L. Lathrop ’55
Mitch was reelected president of the Metropolitan Opera National Council at the Council’s meeting in New York on March 8, 2013. Each year the Council auditions between 1,200 and 1,500 young singers from throughout the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, with between 8 and 11 eventually being selected to sing on the stage of the […]