Linnea Leonard Kickasola

Linnea Leonard Kickasola is an opera singer who has performed leading and supporting roles in the U.S. and Europe with companies such as the Chattanooga Opera, Lyric Opera of Waco, Delphi Theatre, Ope

Doctor Atomic; Or How Opera Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Oct 31, 2008 9 min read Music & Performing Arts

Few productions this season at the Metropolitan Opera are receiving the kind of attention and publicity that the new production of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic has. The Met’s innovative general manager, Peter

A Human Art:<br />Sound and Spectacle in “La Gioconda”

Oct 3, 2008 6 min read Music & Performing Arts Metropolitan Opera Olga Borodina

Opera in current American culture is passionately loved by a few and generally misunderstood, feared or even reviled by most others. Its complexities can require specialized knowledge or a willingness to set aside