Patrick D. McCoy: “Looks like there is a 'new' Carmen on the rise,” Kendall Gladen

[Kendall Gladen in Carmen]

Patrick D. McCoy writes:

“Hello Mr. Zick,

Looks like there is a 'new' Carmen on the rise. Here is a review that I came across of Kendall Gladen's appearance in the Bizet opera in San Francisco.

http://www.examiner.com/opera-in-san-francisco/carmen-by-bizet-opened-exotically-at-sf-with-sf-s-earthy-kendall-gladen-review?CID=examiner_alerts_article

“Carmen by Bizet opened exotically at SF with SF's earthy Kendall Gladen

Cindy Warner, SF Opera Examiner”

Nov. 10, 2011

“Carmen by Bizet, one of the all-time favorite operas because of a glorious score so melodic and fun that it's as hummable as La Donna e Mobile, opened at SF Opera with former Merolini Kendall Gladen. Kendall, a statuesque mezzo, played the Basque gypsy with a sense of understated, exotic, supernatural power and earthy sensuality that thrilled particularly as she sang forebodingly and fiercely in her lower register, whether upon reading death in the cards; or facing down her fallen young lover as he draws his knife on her outside the bullfight ring.”