New York and Philadelphia Meetings

I had a brilliant time last week in New York and Philadelphia -

This is the view from the ferry that goes from designer Nick Vaughan’s home in Brooklyn to Manhattan – fantastic view – to boat goes to the southern tip of the island & then up to East 34th Street – great way to get around…

Nick & I had intensive meetings about our Curtis Institute CENERENTOLA which opens here at Philadelphia’s PRINCE THEATER in May 2014

while in Philly it was nice to briefly pop in & see my friends & colleagues at Opera Philadelphia

Then back to NYC & thanks to nice Nicky Spence (my Tom Rakewell) & Ashley Emerson (from my Opera Philadelphia POWDER HER FACE) I got to see TWO BOYS at the Met

& thanks to Tim Albery sat in the General Director’s box to watch Tim’s production of Britten’s MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

& THE TEAM’S new show – ROOSEVELVIS was terrific -

designed by clever Nick Vaughan…

& Andrew Wade invited me to see the new Taymor MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Shakespeare’s play this time!) at Theater for New Audiences – Andrew doing the voice work…

Only sorry I didn’t get time to see Angus Wright and Paul (Ghiv) Chahidi who were out in NYC at the same time, opening their Globe Theatre TWELFTH NIGHT and RICHARD III

All in all a hectic & inspiring New York & Philadelphia week!