BILLEVESÉES FICTION, NON-FICTION, AND NONSENSE FROM AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (SOMETIMES)
by William V. Madison June, 24 2015
Though I first heard her in Verdi, soprano Caroline Worra has over the years earned a sterling reputation for new work, singing in premieres and near-premieres with opera companies across the United States. When Mark Adamo’s Little Women opened at Glimmerglass, there was Caroline Worra, who managed to make Amy (my least-favorite March sister) appealing and sympathetic. When Fort Worth Opera brought Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied to the stage, there was Caroline Worra again, bringing life to a modern-day Penelope whose husband’s long wartime odyssey cost them both all that they shared.
OPERA NEWS magazine
Sound Bites: Caroline Worra
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by Timothy Mangan
Caroline Worra is game. Taking the lead role in Long Beach Opera's June production of Handel's Semele, set by director Isabel Milenski in a modern-day Texas of seedy motels and big-money barbecues, the brave soprano set her eyes on Jupiter (Benjamin Brecher in a ten-gallon hat), then sneaked off with him to his parked convertible. To the strains of "Endless Pleasure, Endless Love," the couple got to know each other in the Biblical sense, Worra's silvery rendition of the da capo ornamentation coming across as an expression of her ever-increasing sensual enjoyment.
TIME OUT NEW YORK magazine
From "We got next"
by Steve Smith
TONY's favorite artists give a nod to the rising stars they're watching.
The pick: Caroline Worra, operatic soprano, seen above
The fan: Mark Adamo, composer of the operas Little Women and Lysistrata
Opera Now Magazine
Agrippina at Boston Lyric Opera
Agrippina opens tonight at Boston Lyric Opera, starring Caroline Worra as Handel's anti-heroine in a production first staged by Glimmerglass and New York City Opera.
The Grammy-nominated soprano is expected to take on Handel’s portrait of an arch female power-monger and manipulative mother with the same compelling confidence that characterised her performances as Elettra in BLO’s Idomeneo last year.
