By Charles Ward | September 25, 2012
Soprano Laura Claycomb has no opera dates in her home state this year. So she’s doing what singers of old did regularly: keeping in touch with a tour.
The crowd was thin Monday in Zilkha Hall, but the stalwarts heard a marvelous example of a medium that’s never taken hold in Houston: the vocal recital.
For me, Claycomb sealed the deal, as it were, with her first encore, Doretta’s aria from Giacomo Puccini‘s “La Rondine”, a piece from repertoire she doesn’t sing, she explained. It isn’t a great work, but it’s one of my favorite moments of operatic schmaltz. Monday, the only response was closing the eyes and letting the goose bumps rise….
I had the great pleasure to hear you sing Straus's Brentano Leider with the San Francisco Symphony. I think it was 2015.
Hi, Laura, Roger Roe`s uncle here. I am planning to see you at Southwestern, but since I live an hour away, cannot sta
How sweet that you are coming!! We already have the program made, and I don't normally put arias on an art song recital
Laura, We are really looking forward to hearing you again at Southwestern U. We attended an SMU Music School concert qui