Mary Falvey — a leader in the founding group of SFCV, a board member from the beginning, its first treasurer, and board chair since 2010 — will yield the board chair post to Alisa Won.
Merola 2013 participant Zanda Švede is a magnificent mezzo from Latvia. She has a calm, self-assured, friendly, no-nonsense mien, maintained even when she says something surprising.
Hear the BBC Proms' version of Gen. MacArthur's farewell: "The choir, the choir, the choir ..." in the intermission of the brilliant First Night at the Proms that opened the concert series on Friday.
The public phase of the 2013 Merola Opera Program has opened in a good new venue, with a brilliant musical production of Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.
