Interviews and Articles

Der Opernfreund: Meagan MILLER

Interview with Renate Publig: "Song was Simply a Part of my Life" auf Deutsch, covering a variety of topics
"Die junge amerikanische Sopranistin Meagan Miller war im April an der Wiener Staatsoper in der Titelpartie von Ariadne auf Naxos zu hören, eine Partie, die sie demnächst auch mit der Oper Leipzig in Peking sowie in Warschau verkörpern wird. In der Veranstaltung „Musical meets Opera“ im Ronacher hielt sie ihren Kollegen auf der Bühne die Daumen, im Anschluss ergab sich die Gelegenheit zu einem Gespräch...."

Playbill: A Chat With Soprano Meagan Miller

From July 29-August 7, Bard SummerScape presents the first fully-staged New York production of Strauss' Die Liebe der Danae. Soprano Meagan Miller stars in the opera. In this conversation, Miller discusses her career and upcoming projects ...

WQXR: Operavore: Soprano Meagan Miller on a Straussian Gold Standard

... Neither does soprano Meagan Miller, who plays the titular princess with a lust for gold and, initially, a lack of human compassion. With such an immersion in the score and the opera -- staged here by Kevin Newbury with sets by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly -- Meagan spoke with us recently about this unfairly neglected work and its place in Strauss's formidable canon. Read on for more ...

wrti.org: Soprano Meagan Miller

David Patrick Stearns profiles Meagan Miller. The West Chester soprano is a rising star in the world opera. ...

Die Presse: Meagan Miller: "Immediatedly fell in love with this music!"

Soprano Meagan Miller tells us, why she, as daughter of a NASA scientist, likes singing moonstruck music ...

Oberon's Grove: Interview: Meagan Miller

... One striking girl who I came to know was the soprano Meagan Miller. I heard her singing at Juilliard lieder evenings and was very excited for her when she won the Met Auditions in 1999. After that things really took off for her and we lost contact. But, that's the best thing about Facebook: re-connecting with people. Now I've been following her career closely, and am very excited that on february 9th I'll have a chance to hear her again when she gives a recital at Merkin Hall here in New York (details at the end of this article) ...

Cleveland.com: In tragedy's wake, Beethoven's Ninth with Cleveland Orchestra has deeper meaning

... "I always go back to the words," said soprano Meagan Miller, who will make her Cleveland Orchestra debut alongside mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, tenor Eric Cutler and bass Iain Paterson. "The tune is so familiar, and so repetitive, and so the things that really create nuance are the words." ...

Interchanging Idioms: Soprano Meagan Miller set to Soar in 2011 Bard SumerScape

... The production, starring soprano Meagan Miller, a grand finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, will be directed by dynamic young opera and theater director Kevin Newbury, and both are making their SummerScape debuts ...

Lyric Fest: Interview with Meagan Miller

Meagan Miller, a rapidly rising opera star from West Chester, PA, has been making celebrated debuts on important stages all over the world, interpreting the leading ladies of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi and Wagner. Her current season took her to a series of role and house debuts, the most recent – in the title role in Richard Strauss’ Daphne at the Vienna State Opera in December 2011 ...

Opera News: A Singer's Diary: The Forgotten Word

...Twenty-four-year-old soprano Meagan Miller, a winner in the recent Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, believes that no one should attend a conservatory such as Juilliard directly after high school, because eighteen-year-olds are too young to absorb what such schools have to offer. Miller, also the 1998 winner of the Joy in Singing Award and a current student at the Juilliard Opera Center, studied liberal arts -- with a concentration on English literature -- for two years at Washington and Lee University before taking the plunge into music. She recalls enacting scenes from Shakespeare in one class and analyzing poetry in another, where "we treated Emily Dickinson like our daily vitamins."...

Archmere Academy: Meagan Miller '92

... "The experience of singing in the Mastersingers was very unique,” says Meagan. “The repertoire and training that we were exposed to, the opportunity to use our voices classically – a lot of school programs did not have that.” In addition to helping to build her love of classical music, Meagan credits her time at Archmere with developing her confidence with foreign languages. “I took German at Archmere and loved it, and became pretty fluent,” she says. “I continued to study it in college, and now many of my operas are in German and I find myself conducting much of my professional life in German.” ...

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