Brian Morgan (né Joseph Anthony Odom) stage directed many controversial opera productions between New Orleans (his native city) and New York, including Suor Angelica, Venus and Adonis, Sāvitri (New Orleans premiere), Cards, La voix humaine (New Orleans premiere, in his own translation), s (world premiere), Hänsel und Gretel, Dido and Æneas, Pelléas et Mélisande (New Orleans premiere), Bastien und Bastienne, Everyman (world premiere), Orfeo ed Euridice, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Everyman (New York premiere), Pierrot lunaire, and the original version of Médée (which was then recorded by Newport Classic).
Mr Morgan, who is of German and Dutch extraction, is a graduate of Loyola University of the South's College of Music, erstwhile apprentice to John Dexter at the Metropolitan Opera, former Artistic Director of The New Opera Theatre (New Orleans) and Opera Quotannis (New York City), former Programme Annotator of the New Orleans Opera Association, and former Liturgical Advisor to the New Orleans Musica da Camera. He has written on æsthetics for various publications, including Opera News, Codex (essays on Beverly Sills and Alessandro Moreschi), OnStage (an essay on Werner Torkanowsky), and The New Orleans Advocate, and his critically-acclaimed book Strange Child of Chaos: Norman Treigle, was published on March 26, 2006.
Following several years as a cloistered monk, he returned to New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina, where he was classical-music correspondent for the PBS affiliate WYES's "Stepping Out" for nine years. He is a noted musician, and is Basilica Organist at the Basilica of St Stephen in New Orleans. On facebook, Mr Morgan has created The Susanne Marsee Appreciation Society, The Herva Nelli Appreciation Society, The Norman Treigle Appreciation Society, The Giuseppe Anselmi Appreciation Society, The Gilda Dalla Rizza Appreciation Society, as well as The Society of the Holy Infant of Good Health, The Society of St Baradates, and The Society of the Infant of Prague.
On June 19, 2023, his monograph, A Cool Brilliance: The Legacy of Karan Armstrong, was published. On August 30, 2023, his book, Uttering Lamentations: Essays & Critiques on Opera, was published.
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Current Wikipedia Articles edit
- Armando Agnini, stage director
- Carlos Alexander, baritone
- Karan Armstrong, soprano
- Christian Boesch, baritone
- Elise Cambon, organist and pedagogue
- Renato Cellini, conductor
- Richard J. Clark, baritone
- William Cochran (tenor)
- Eugene Conley, tenor
- Gilda Dalla Rizza, soprano
- Michael Devlin (bass-baritone)
- John Dexter, stage director
- Zdzisława Donat, soprano
- John Duykers, tenor
- Lou Galterio, stage director
- Jon Garrison, tenor
- Marie Gutheil-Schoder, soprano
- Ronald Hamilton, tenor
- Joshua Hecht, bass
- Cyril and Libbye Hellier, sopranos
- Elvira de Hidalgo, soprano
- Betty Jones, soprano
- Frank Kelley (tenor)
- Giórgios Kokoliós-Bardi, tenor
- Anthony Laciura, tenor
- Frank Little (tenor)
- Melchiorre Luise, basso buffo
- Sir Donald McIntyre, bass-baritone
- Anne McKnight, soprano
- Susanne Marsee, mezzo-soprano
- Myra Merritt, soprano
- Marta Moretto, mezzo-soprano
- Suzy Morris (in Opera), soprano
- Nicola Moscona, bass
- Herva Nelli, soprano
- Wolfgang Neumann, tenor
- Newport Classic
- Salvador Novoa, tenor
- Kari Nurmela, baritone
- Karin Ott, soprano
- Ticho Parly, tenor
- Janet Perry, soprano
- Helga Pilarczyk, soprano
- Miriam Pirazzini, mezzo-soprano
- Henry Price (tenor)
- Sydney Rayner, tenor
- Natalia Rom, soprano
- Neil Rosenshein, tenor
- Thaïs St Julien, soprano
- Brian Salesky, conductor
- Vicente Sardinero, baritone
- Arlene Saunders, soprano
- Erik Schmedes, tenor
- Audrey Schuh, soprano
- Nancy Shade, soprano
- Al Shea, actor and critic
- Anja Silja, soprano
- Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Louisiana), religious order
- Isabel Strauß, soprano
- Harry Theyard, tenor
- Alan Titus, baritone
- Werner Torkanowsky, conductor
- Mary Tortorich, pedagogue
- Norman Treigle, bass-baritone
- Phyllis Treigle, soprano
- Leontina Vaduva, soprano
- Dunja Vejzovic, soprano
- Robert Weede, baritone
- Jayne West, soprano
- The White Scapular of Our Lady of Good Counsel, sacramental
- Gran Wilson, tenor
- He has also written the Argument for Sāvitri.
- Articles created by Mr Morgan, though superseded: Theo Adam, St Baradates, Blessed Stephen Bellesini, Wanda Brister, Tito Capobianco, Richard Cassilly, Joy Clements, Frank Corsaro, Joan Carroll Cruz, Enrico di Giuseppe, Stephen Dickson, Mignon Dunn, Ruth Falcon, Carlisle Floyd, F.A. Forbes, D'Anna Fortunato, Richard Fredricks, Marisa Galvany, Thomas Hayward, Walter Herbert (conductor), Holy Infant of Good Health, Cavada Humphrey, Jussi Jalas, Christopher Keene, the Reverend Francis Xavier Lasance, Chester Ludgin, Virginia MacWatters, John Macurdy, Nadja Michael, Tamara Milashkina, Sister Nazarena of Jesus OSBCam, Maralin Niska, Betsy Norden, Lisette Oropesa, Our Lady of Good Counsel, Aureliano Pertile, Marguerite Piazza, Kirk Redmann, the Recluse Sisters, Margaret Roggero, Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites, Rita Shane, the Right Reverend Monsignor Joseph F. Stedman, St Valérie, etc.
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