https://www.jason-adamo.com/audio-video daily 0.75 2020-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c7b009d7fdcb87b287922d5/1556481417315-S1GP5KS0HH8G024ZX1S5/Belcore2.jpg Audio/Video Gallery - Audio & Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c7b009d7fdcb87b287922d5/1598733910526-8VRSSLLJP46I0XLVKNBR/image-asset.png Audio/Video Gallery - Dulcamara's Aria from Elixir of Love https://www.jason-adamo.com/blog daily 0.75 2019-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c7b009d7fdcb87b287922d5/1554760627781-KZ3K7D8MAM0UD4Y4B0RZ/opera-594592_1920.jpg Blog - The Blog A COLLECTION OF RANDOM THOUGHTS ON OPERA, MUSIC & ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c7b009d7fdcb87b287922d5/1556747248468-T5AQN5ZRZEZN3XN3KIM0/IMG_1852.jpg Blog - April 12, 2019 A Strong Case for Rhyming Opera Synopses: Opera Guyed When I was given a copy of Opera Guyed some time ago by a fellow opera buff, it was a curious gift. First of all, it is a very old book, first published in 1923. And its title is a bit odd too, until you understand the book’s intention: it is both a spoof and an homage to the art of opera. The book gives pithy summaries of several standard repertoire opera plots such as Rigoletto, Tosca, Das Rheingold, etc. But it does so in verse - usually, but not always, humorous - sometimes written as if by a character from Guys and Dolls who had just seen an opera for the first time - but always somehow uncannily accurate. For instance, the book tells the final scene of Samson and Dalilah like this: Then Samson grabbed the pillars of the temple on each side And with a mighty push he sent the columns flying wide The roof came tumbling on his head The Philistines were all knocked dead “Well that brought down the house,” he said, And turned around and died.” The other entries in the book are similarly tongue-in-cheek and irreverent (and often a product of 1920's humor). But it is important sometimes to appreciate and even celebrate the fact that opera plots are often rather ludicrous, especially to the layperson. It is the music that elevates these stories into art, of course. But a witty synopsis of a melodramatic opera plot can remind us to laugh at ourselves, and may even pique the curiosity of the non-operagoer. (The illustrations are also incredible.) https://www.jason-adamo.com/home daily 1.0 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c7b009d7fdcb87b287922d5/1551658824439-8A53X9107U0SACMEQRUE/despard%252Bcopy.jpg Home - Jason’s Bio Jason Adamo is a bass-baritone who has performed a wide variety of repertoire by composers from Mozart to Puccini. A specialist in Italian opera, he has performed frequently with Eastern Opera of New Jersey and with the Baroque Opera of New Jersey (conducted by Dr. Robert Butts), having sung Marcello in La Bohème, Silvio in I Pagliacci, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Bonze and Yamadori in Madama Butterfly, Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore, the Speaker, First Priest and Second Armored Man in The Magic Flute, and the title roles of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, and in 2018 he sang in the world premiere of Dr. Butts’ new opera, Auld Lang Syne. In New York City, Jason has sung Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri and the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro with New York Opera Forum as well as Marcello in La Bohème with Amore Opera. Other roles include Father in Hansel and Gretel, the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri, and Schaunard in La Bohème. Jason’s standout roles include Dr. Falke in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, which he has performed with both Eastern Opera of New Jersey as well as the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, and Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro which he performed with the Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute in San Francisco, under the baton of Matthias Kuntsch, and again with Maestro Robert Butts and the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey. Arts critic Art Ritchie of mycentraljersey.com has written: “Jason Adamo is a simply wonderful Falke” and Sheila Abrams of njartsmaven.com has this praise for Jason’s Figaro: “Adamo projects an effortless sound, his voice embracing some of opera’s most familiar arias as if they are natural speech. And his articulation (in the original Italian) is superb.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c7b009d7fdcb87b287922d5/1556641114229-E7LMEDCH3URQ5E2EVHV6/despard.jpg Home Before establishing an operatic career, Jason was a prolific interpreter of roles in plays, classic musical theatre and operetta, having performed in As You Like It and Hamlet with Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Evita (as Juan Perón) and Cyrano with the Actors’ Company of Pennsylvania at the Fulton Opera House, the Off-Broadway musical A Stoop on Orchard Street, South Pacific with the Princeton Opera Association, Brigadoon at Bristol Riverside Theatre, as well as essaying the Gilbert and Sullivan roles of Sir Despard Murgatroyd in Ruddigore and the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance, in addition to appearing in many other plays and musicals. Jason’s origins as an actor and musical theatre singer continue to inform his dramatic characterizations in operatic repertoire. Born in the city of Trenton, New Jersey and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jason has been an active performer on stages from Philadelphia to New York City since 1994. 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