WOODS HOLE – Paul Driscoll, the editor-in-chief of Opera News, and former stage director for the College Light Opera Company in Falmouth will present a talk titled “Defining the Diva: From Maria Callas to Adele” at the next MBL Falmouth Forum on February 3 at 7:30 PM in the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Lillie Auditorium.
The event, sponsored by the MBL Associates, is free and open to the public.
The operatic term “diva”—first used to describe the goddess-like stature of nineteenth century opera singers—is now attached to artists from the world of pop, jazz, and country music.
Who really deserves the title? Driscoll will offer a genre-busting list of albums that established ten singers as true divas.
Driscoll has been editor-in-chief of Opera News since 2003.
He began contributing to the magazine in 1990 and joined the editorial staff as managing editor in 1998.
His freelance writing on opera and music has been published in Playbill, Stagebill, Chamber Music, and Lincoln Center Ink.
Driscoll’s credits as a stage director include twenty-two musicals and operettas in his seven seasons with College Light Opera Company in Falmouth.
He also directed six Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Manhattan’s Blue Hill Troupe, as well as the group’s 75th Anniversary Gala with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall.
He made his Kennedy Center debut directing Working, conducted by Stephen Simon, for Washington Chamber Symphony at the Terrace Theater.
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