User:Brian Joseph Morgan

Brian Morgan stage directed many controversial opera productions between New Orleans (his native city) and New York, including Suor Angelica, Venus and Adonis, Sāvitri (New Orleans premiere), Cards, La voix humaine (New Orleans premiere, in his own translation), s (world premiere), Hänsel und Gretel, Dido and Æneas, Pelléas et Mélisande (New Orleans premiere), Bastien und Bastienne, Everyman (world premiere), Orfeo ed Euridice, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Everyman (New York premiere), Pierrot lunaire, and the original version of Médée (which was then recorded by Newport Classic).

Mr Morgan is a graduate of Loyola University of the South's College of Music, erstwhile apprentice to John Dexter at the Metropolitan Opera, former Artistic Director of The New Opera Theatre (New Orleans) and Opera Quotannis (New York City), former Programme Annotator of the New Orleans Opera Association, and former Liturgical Advisor to the New Orleans Musica da Camera. He has written on æsthetics for various publications, including Opera News, Codex (essays on Beverly Sills and Alessandro Moreschi), OnStage (an essay on Werner Torkanowsky), and The New Orleans Advocate, and his critically-acclaimed book Strange Child of Chaos: Norman Treigle, was published in 2006.

Following several years as a strictly-cloistered monk, he returned to New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina, where he was classical-music correspondent for the PBS affiliate WYES's "Stepping Out" for nine years. On facebook, Mr Morgan has created The Susanne Marsee Appreciation Society, The Herva Nelli Appreciation Society, The Norman Treigle Appreciation Society, The Giuseppe Anselmi Appreciation Society, The Gilda Dalla Rizza Appreciation Society, as well as The Society of the Holy Infant of Good Health, The Society of St Baradates, and The Society of the Infant of Prague.

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Bastien und Bastienne.

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Orfeo ed Euridice.

Current Wikipedia Articles

Armando Agnini, stage director
Carlos Alexander, baritone
Karan Armstrong, soprano
St Baradates, hermit
Christian Boesch, baritone
Elise Cambon, organist and conductor
Renato Cellini, conductor
Richard J. Clark, baritone
William Cochran (tenor)
Eugene Conley, tenor
Gilda Dalla Rizza, soprano
Michael Devlin (bass-baritone)
John Dexter, stage director
Zdzisława Donat, soprano
John Duykers, tenor
Ruth Falcon, soprano
Carlisle Floyd, composer
Lou Galterio, stage director
Jon Garrison, tenor
Marie Gutheil-Schoder, soprano
Ronald Hamilton, tenor
Joshua Hecht, bass
Cyril and Libbye Hellier, sopranos
Elvira de Hidalgo, soprano
Betty Jones, soprano
Christopher Keene, conductor
Frank Kelley (tenor)
Giórgios Kokoliós-Bardi, tenor
Anthony Laciura, tenor
Frank Little (tenor)
The Little Sachet, sacramental
Melchiorre Luise, basso buffo
Sir Donald McIntyre, bass-baritone
Anne McKnight, soprano
Virginia MacWatters, soprano
John Macurdy, bass
Susanne Marsee, mezzo-soprano
Myra Merritt, soprano
Nadja Michael, soprano
Tamara Milashkina, soprano
Marta Moretto, mezzo-soprano
Suzy Morris, soprano
Nicola Moscona, bass
Herva Nelli, soprano
Wolfgang Neumann, tenor
Newport Classic
Salvador Novoa, tenor
Kari Nurmela, baritone
Karin Ott, soprano
Ticho Parly, tenor
Janet Perry, soprano
Helga Pilarczyk, soprano
Miriam Pirazzini, mezzo-soprano
Henry Price (tenor)
Sydney Rayner, tenor
Natalia Rom, soprano
Neil Rosenshein, tenor
Thaïs St Julien, soprano
Brian Salesky, conductor
Vicente Sardinero, baritone
Arlene Saunders, soprano
Erik Schmedes, tenor
Audrey Schuh, soprano
Nancy Shade, soprano
Al Shea, actor and critic
Anja Silja, soprano
Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Louisiana), religious order
Isabel Strauß, soprano
Harry Theyard, tenor
Alan Titus, baritone
Werner Torkanowsky, conductor
Mary Tortorich, pedagogue
Norman Treigle, bass-baritone
Phyllis Treigle, soprano
Viorica Ursuleac, soprano
Leontina Vaduva, soprano
Dunja Vejzovic, soprano
Robert Weede, baritone
Jayne West, soprano
The White Scapular of Our Lady of Good Counsel, sacramental
Gran Wilson, tenor

- He has also written the Arguments for Sāvitri and Von heute auf morgen.

- - Articles created by Mr Morgan, but superseded: Theo Adam, Blessed Stephen Bellesini, Wanda Brister, Tito Capobianco, Richard Cassilly, Joy Clements, Frank Corsaro, Joan Carroll Cruz, Enrico di Giuseppe, Stephen Dickson, Mignon Dunn, F.A. Forbes, D'Anna Fortunato, Richard Fredricks, Marisa Galvany, Thomas Hayward, Walter Herbert (conductor), Holy Infant of Good Health, Jussi Jalas, Francis Xavier Lasance, Chester Ludgin, Sister Nazarena of Jesus OSBCam, Maralin Niska, Betsy Norden, Lisette Oropesa, Our Lady of Good Counsel, Aureliano Pertile, Marguerite Piazza, Kirk Redmann, the Recluse Sisters, Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites, Rita Shane, Joseph F. Stedman, St Valérie, etc.