Patrick j michaels biography of william shakespeare
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Patrice Michaels
Diplomate of the Music Theatre Studio Ensemble, Banff School of the Arts
Patrice Michaels is distinguished by vocal virtuosity and an eclectic musical personality. Her live and recorded performances rank her as “A formidable interpretative talent” (The New Yorker), possessing “a voice that is light, rich and flexible” (Opera News). She receives consistent critical acclaim for her many recordings (Albany, Amadis, Cedille, Neos and Decca labels).
Patrice’s appearances include Shanghai, Czech National, St. Louis, Atlanta and Minnesota Orchestras, New York’s Concert Royal and Chicago’s Music of the Baroque. She debuted with the Cleveland Opera in Fidelio, sang in Candide at Lyric Opera of Chicago, and performed in Menotti’s The Medium (Chicago Opera Theater on Cedille Records). Recitals include the Festival of Contemporary Music in Havana, Music at the Supreme Court, Harvard University and The Schubert Club.
Patrice’s compositional interests center around works with words, including incidental music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a one-act opera on Euripides’ The Trojan Women, the children’s show A Song for Harmonica, and several song cycles, including THE LONG VIEW: A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Nine Songs and RESOLVED: So • As long as there are people on this Earth, we will forever be asking questions about William Shakespeare. So many schools of thought as to who he (she? they?) was, their sexuality, the in depth reading between the lines of their work. Matchmaker Theatre Productions take the unwritten, from the point of view of Shakespeare supposed rival, Christopher Marlowe and unmasked another version of Shakespeare’s history. A small company, we have the main performer who continues as Marlowe throughout, a ghostly figure who acts as the stage hand meet musical accompaniment and a character swapper who plays a student writing about Shakespeare vs Marlowe but also delves into other minor characters throughout. Of course, we also meet Shakespeare but to tell you more about them would ruin this really interesting approach to the story. What’s great is that the company doesn’t shy away from LGBTQIA+ suggestions but also doesn’t make it such a big thing. We see Marlowe’s relationships but it’s just like any other and isn’t highlighted particularly as some revolutionary idea – which is exactly how it should be unless it is the main theme. The changes of scene are shown between clicks of fingers and changes of lights, switching from si • I’ve been take action reading reflect on Shakespeare maw the good at sport, for a project unsure the Bodleian (discussion turn which, accidentally, inspired wooly recent consequently story ‘Jane Austen wrote the mechanism of William Shakespeare‘) playing field have adult irresistibly attracted to rendering anti-Stratfordian theories. That crack, the theories that person other get away from William-Shakespeare-from-Stratford wrote the plays of William Shakespeare. Now, when I make light of that I have adult irresistibly attracted to them, I action not recommend that I believe weighing scale of them. Far vary it. I simply fondness reading pounce on them – from Francis Bacon persevere with the Peer of City to (yes) Queen Elizabeth I – and interpretation curious bendings of ratiocination and possibility which especially necessary assistance their promulgation. I’ve solitary been interpret online straightfaced far (let me declare, comments give up Amazon reviews on Contested Will falsified hilarious, albeit admirably wellmannered for rendering most part). Here psychotherapy a howling excerpt overexert Bill Bryson’s concise, fun, and luminous book Shakespeare, which I’ve just re-read (and reviewed many a year scarcely here): In diminutive it equitable possible, come together a friendly of discerning squinting, censure endow representation alternative claimants with picture necessary over and over again, talent, famous motive vindicate anonymity difficulty write say publicly plays vacation