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Two Boys is an opera in two acts by American composer Nico Muhly, with an English-language libretto by American playwright Craig Lucas.The opera's story is based on real events in Manchester, England, in 2001 as described in a 2005 Vanity Fair article titled "You Want Me 2 Kill Him?"
[1] [2] He then won a place at the National Opera Studio in 2009 where he won the Bruce Millar Gulliver Opera Prize. [7] The following year he joined the English National Opera as one of their inaugural Harewood Artists. [8] As a Harewood Artist at ENO, Spence created the role of Brian in the world premiere of Nico Muhly's opera Two Boys in ...
Paul Appleby (born June 29, 1983) is an American operatic tenor. [1] In 2009 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.In November 2015 he made his debut at the San Francisco Opera as Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute. [2]
However, in a 2008 interview with The Advocate, Muhly stated that the opera is based on the true story of an online friendship between two male teenagers, one of whom stabs the other. [4] The opera was reworked both before and after its 2011 premiere. The first recording of the piece, from the Met production, was released on Nonesuch Records in ...
Matthew William Tansley Stiff (born 13 December 1979), formerly credited as Matt Stiff, is an English opera singer and former radio presenter, best known as the former bass singer with classical boyband G4.
Audiences enraptured by the Florida Grand Opera’s production of “I pagliacci” and lead singers Limmie Pulliam and Kearstin Piper Brown gave standing ovations to the classic play within a play.
James Westman (born September 16, 1971) is a Canadian baritone known for his interpretation of the Verdi, Puccini and bel canto operatic repertoire, and particularly his signature role of Germont in La traviata, which he has sung in over 150 performances, with opera companies such as San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Graz Opera, Santa Fe Opera ...
René Pape (born 4 September 1964) is a German operatic bass.Pape has received two Grammys, was named "Vocalist of the Year" by Musical America in 2002, "Artist of the Year" by the German opera critics in 2006, and won an ECHO award (the German equivalent of the Grammy) in 2009.