{"id":1335,"date":"2020-06-18T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/18\/a-doubleheader-at-the-met\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:30:08","slug":"a-doubleheader-at-the-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-doubleheader-at-the-met\/","title":{"rendered":"A doubleheader at the Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For any opera singer, one performance can be enough to put a strain on her vocal cords. But what about performing two major roles in the same day? Betsy Bishop, a 1989 graduate of the Furman music program, did just that this past Saturday when she did double duty at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. It was an impressive enough feat that <em>The New York Times<\/em> took note in its \u201cArtBeat\u201d section.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from Furman, Bishop attended the Juilliard School of Music.\u00a0 A mezzo-soprano, she has performed with the Metropolitan Opera as Venus in \u201cTannhauser,\u201d with the Washington National Opera as Eboli in \u201cDon Carlo,\u201d and as Mere Marie in Dialogues of the \u201cCarmelites\u201d with Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Palm Beach Opera. \u00a0She also performed the role of Emilie in the world premiere of \u201cThe Dangerous Liaisons<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201d<\/span> on PBS.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/03\/a-doubleheader-at-the-met-for-a-mezzo-soprano\/\">Read more in The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For any opera singer, one performance can be enough to put a strain on her vocal cords. But what about performing two major roles in the same day? Betsy Bishop, a 1989 graduate of the\u00a0Furman\u00a0music program, did just that this past Saturday when she did double duty at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. It was an impressive enough feat that\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em> took note in its \u201cArtBeat\u201d section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}