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Bridge player: as Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge, Kim Josephson has the best role of his career.(Interview)
Few new American operas have been treated to the kind of advance publicity heaped on A View from the Bridge prior to its world premiere, at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1999. Too often, the end results fail to justify all the shouting, but A View from the Bridge turned out to be a tremendous critical and popular success. The Arthur Miller play on which the opera is based is vivid and dynamic (as composer William Bolcom said at the time, "It's half an opera already"), but music succeeded in adding another dimension to the drama. Catherine Malfitano played Beatrice, Gregory Turay played Rodolpho, and Juliana Rambaldi and Isabel Bayrakdarian shared the role of Catherine. But the ...
- A View from the Bridge: Isabel Bayrakdarian (Catherine) and Kim Josephson...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Domville, Eric March 22, 2003 700+ words
...the performance. In the event, I was proved wrong, especially in the case of the main figure, Eddie Carbone. In the absence of Kim Josephson, Richard Zeller overpowered the stage, as befits a character whose disintegration and death follow...
- Doo-Wop Hits the Opera: Arthur Miller's 'View from the Bridge' in full...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Gates, David October 18, 1999 700+ words
...with the dark passions of grand opera, down to the gloriously stagy death scene. And baritone Kim Josephson makes a creepily convincing Eddie Carbone, the dockworker undone by lust for his niece. Bolcom, 61, loves talking about everyone from...
- Chicago-Based Opera Company Stages American Work.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Stryker, Mark October 13, 1999 700+ words
...operatic play, full of outsized emotions: tragedy writ large. Eddie Carbone, a pugnacious but honest Brooklyn stevedore, and his wife...and production values are almost unimpeachable. Baritone Kim Josephson's Eddie sings and acts with dignity, making his demise...
- AMERICAN DREAM, AMERICAN OPERA.
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect MIRAPAUL, MATTHEW February 14, 2000 700+ words
...the opera's action. The Italian-American stevedore Eddie Carbone is obsessed with his niece Catherine, who lives with...role conspicuously lacks a character-defining aria, Kim Josephson made an ideal Eddie, simultaneo
- MET In The Parks Series Returns To New Jersey On June 17: Five free
- Newspaper article from: Italian Voice, The Mario Fratti May 25, 1995 700+ words
...Villarroel, Vladimir Grishko, Frank Lopardo, Paolo Coni, and Kim Josephson. "Rigoletto" will be performed on Wednesday, June 28...Veronica Villarroel (Violetta), Frank Lopardo (Alfredo), Kim Josephson (Germont), Kitt Reuter-Foss (Flora) Marianne Cometti...
- CLASSICAL.(Special Section)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) September 8, 2004 700+ words
...Baroque Without Borders." Bethany Lutheran Church. $22. OCT. 16-31 Seattle Opera: Verdi's "Rigoletto," with Kim Josephson, Norah Amsellem and Frank Lopardo. McCaw Hall. $42-$129. OCT. 17 Tudor Choir: "Music of Medieval England." Doug...
- Denholtz Associates recently completed a 21,000 s/f full-floor lease with...
- Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly July 23, 2008 700+ words
...global technology company headquartered in Irvine, Calif., at the newly built Metropark South II in Old Bridge Township. Kim Josephson of Real Tech represented Broadcom. Metropark South II is located at a four-way interchange directly off Exit 120 of the...
- Kanyova floats in cast change for Lyric's `Butterfly' floats.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) March 17, 2004 700+ words
...as before, with the splendid Chinese mezzo Guang Yang stealing the show with her affecting, gorgeously sung Suzuki, and Kim Josephson portraying an exemplary Sharpless. ___ (c) 2004, Chicago Tribune. Visit the Chicago Tribune on the Internet at HYPERLINK...
