About 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, 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.
Articles by Linnea Leonard Kickasola
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.
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Doctor Atomic or: How Opera Learned
to 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.
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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 art [...]
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