The Saucy Soprano: Melina Schein’s ride from being a singer stuck in lockdown to cashing in with her Jewish cooking skills
“Melina, working on a rose water and cardamom whipped cream…, ” announces Noah Cappe, doing the play-by-play for Wall of Bakers. The host of the Food Network Canada show was watching Melina Schein of Vernon, B.C., compete as one of the four contestants in the inaugural episode. While this amateur baker was whisking the soft […]
Author recalls an operatic father-son struggle in new memoir
Michael Fraiman speaks with author David Tucker, author of The Hard Bargain: Music, Medicine and My Father (Richard Tucker, Opera Legend).
Opera explores the tragic life of famed cellist
Toby Saltzman looks at Tapestry Opera’s production of Jacqueline: a portrait of virtuosity, about famed English cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
