If you can find a DVD of Peter Sellars' Marriage of Figaro, I recall that Kelley was a delightfully oily Basilio.
I definitely want to see that. I've seen him as Fernando in Sellars' Cosi fan tutte on DVD—and we're fairly certain my mother saw him in the original production—and for the last couple of years at Opera Boston, as a tricksterish romantic lead in Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne and the world-famous magician Nika Magadoff in The Consul. He's awesome.
(He taught voice at Brandeis when I was there, although he was not my teacher. It blew my mind temporarily when I found out that the ginger-headed tenor I saw every other day in the music building was the same Narrator I'd been hearing on P.D.Q. Bach's Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities for years.)
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I definitely want to see that. I've seen him as Fernando in Sellars' Cosi fan tutte on DVD—and we're fairly certain my mother saw him in the original production—and for the last couple of years at Opera Boston, as a tricksterish romantic lead in Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne and the world-famous magician Nika Magadoff in The Consul. He's awesome.
(He taught voice at Brandeis when I was there, although he was not my teacher. It blew my mind temporarily when I found out that the ginger-headed tenor I saw every other day in the music building was the same Narrator I'd been hearing on P.D.Q. Bach's Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities for years.)