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  Interview with Randall Wong, SF Opera Staging of Harvey Milk
Q: The history of your involvement with *Harvey Milk* dates from its very
beginning. How did you first hear about it?
Randall Wong : I first met Wallace and Korie in 1988 via a double route;
the late Scott Heumann of Houston Grand Opera (who knew me from
recordings) and a friend from Stanford, Nina Gilbert, who was also a
friend of Michael Korie's. I sent them some tapes, and they invited me to
participate in the New York readings of *Where's Dick?* Because of my
involvement with Chanticleer ... [Read More] Published: 1996 |
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Randall Wong, male soprano: The Sydney Morning Herald
Randall Wong covered a range of just over three centuries and just over three octaves in his
recital for the Mardi Gras on Friday. While the implicit androgyny of a singer described as a
male soprano, who moves comfortably from baroque bel canto to baritone cabaret-kitsch, might
seem to be playing up to the cross-dressing outrageousness which the Mardi Gras cultivates,
in fact it was Wong's expertise in baroque ornamentation which was most ... [Read More] Author: Peter McCallum Published: 2000 |
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Randall Wong, male soprano: Household Opera
WE ARE AMUSED We'll never know what Queen Victoria would have thought of the use to which Randall Wong has put the toy
theater we call Victorian. These erstwhile home entertainment center seem so much more fun than modern-daymultimedia outposts, but they're very hands-on and labor-intensive. Thus it was that Wong's Household Opera, which played three nights at the Z Space, deployed several singers, musicians and stagehands to ... [Read More] Author: Erin Blackwell Published: 2000 |
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Randall Wong, male soprano: Recalling the Age of the Castrati
RECALLING THE AGE OF THE CASTRATI
CARMEL - Randall Wong is an average-looking man.with a round face and a pencil mustache. However, when he opens his mouth, he sounds like an angel - and a 200-year-old angel, at that.
Monday evening, the Carmel Bach Festival brought male soprano Wong on board for what will likely be the most unusual diversion of this 61st season. "Hommage a Farinelli: The Other Side of the H
... [Read More] Author: Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner Published: 1998 |
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