More blood please...

Soprano Manon Evrard is having a great year of singing. She has just finished her second opera this season for Virginia Opera, and it’s a bloody one as the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor.

Reviews were amazing including "Her singing was spectacular and she also drew the audience with her almost constant movement", and  "In the very first act, the stunning Manon Strauss Evrard makes it quite clear that she IS Lucia in every note and nuance."

The director for the opera was Dorothy Danner, who we have the great fortune at AVA to have direct La traviata, which opens tomorrow night with three sold out performances already on the books.

Manon opened the season at Virginia Opera with Les contes d’Hofmann with AVA alum bass Burak Bilgili. I’m sure going back to sing in Virginia is like going home. But this time she had her ‘Mere et Pere’ from France, and one of her sisters from Japan in to see the show. Even AVA board member Joe McGuire flew in while doing some legal work in California to see the production.

Manon always ends her emails to me with 'big bisous' (big kisses) and I’m sending that back to her.
xoxoxoxoxxoxoxo

   

                                                       

As you can see from the photos, Dad got get into the make-up Enrico, the mean brother of Lucia. Also in the photo is Manon's sister.