Ben Robinson: General Director of Anchorage Opera

New general director of Anchorage Opera Ben Robinson directed the recent production of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love. We talk about the bold choices he made with that production. We also discuss Anchorage Opera’s upcoming production of Scalia/Ginsburg which explores the friendship between the late US Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. In addition to serving as General Director of Anchorage Opera, Ben is also the artistic director of Opera Ithaca in New York and Raylnmor Opera in New Hampshire. He is the managing director of LyricFest in Philadelphia.   Opera News called his Julia Child inspired film version of the Humberdinck opera Hansel and Gretel, “moving, visually daring.” That film joined the Opera Philadelphia Channel and was streamed last summer in a series of outdoor events. His production of Gianni Schicchi for Opera Ithaca in 2020 was described by Opera Magazine as “the deftest use of covid-era technology as part of modern operatic reality.”

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Links to Clips in the show:

Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot sung by Luciano Pavarotti

Puccini's "Si, mi chiamano Mimì" from La Bohème sung by Martina Arroyo

Donizetti's "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore  sung by Juan Diego Florez

Wagner's "Hojotoho!" from Die Walküre sung by Alexandra Loutsion

Composer/librettist Derrick Wang's "TED Talk" on Scalia/Ginsburg

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses Scalia/Ginsburg