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, Operafestival di Roma, and the Sound Symphony Orchestra. She was a 2007-2008 Resident Artist with the Opera Company of Brooklyn.
She received a MM in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory and a BM in Vocal Performance and a BA in English and Piano from Covenant College. Linnea is also a worship director for Astoria Community Church (PCA).
She lives in New York City, with her husband, Joe, a filmmaker and professor, and daughter, Bronwyn.
A review of Jonathan Miller’s production of St. Matthew’s Passion at Brooklyn Academy of Music in spring 2009.
The March 20 presentation of Opera Grows in Brooklyn at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO was well attended by a standing-room-only audience excited about seeing contemporary opera in a non-traditional space. A joint production by three young opera companies – Opera On Tap, Remarkable Theater Brigade and American Opera Projects – the evening featured opera settings as diverse as a subway train and medieval England.
Art of the Theater in Adriana Lecouvreur
hose who are drawn to Adriana Lecouvreur are entranced by the soaring vocal lines and the opportunity for emotional fireworks in the dramatic exploration of the main characters – in particular, the soprano role of Adriana. Those who revile the opera generally find the story ridiculous and the music less symphonic than they would wish. While the story is certainly melodramatic, it is based on the real lives of Adrienne Lecouvreur and Maurice of Saxony.
Streaming Live: Orfeo ed Euridice
The Metropolitan Opera has pioneered a bold new approach to bring opera to the masses by streaming live high definition broadcasts of operas into movie theaters around the world. The recent performance of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice was a feast for the ears and the eyes, although at the HD screening the eyes had the greatest advantage.
The Day Boy and the Night Girl
Is classical music dying? Not if American opera composers have something to say about it, including Jordan Wentworth Farrar, composer of this new American opera.
Doctor Atomic or: How Opera Learnedto Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
I came away having reaffirmed that I do not come to the opera to be told how to think about something, I come to the opera to have people and history come alive for me.
A Human Art:Sound and Spectacle in "La Gioconda"
The Venetian system for denouncingyour enemies, it plays an importantpart in the plot of "La Gioconda" 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 certain expectations to wholly appreciate the […]
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