{"id":1683,"date":"2013-10-21T21:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T01:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/21\/from-furman-to-the-metropolitan-opera\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:56:35","slug":"from-furman-to-the-metropolitan-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/from-furman-to-the-metropolitan-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Metropolitan Opera and back again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8720\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/betsy-bishop-in-costume.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8720 lazyload\" alt=\"Elizabeth Bishop\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/betsy-bishop-in-costume.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"324\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 229px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 229\/324;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Bishop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Elizabeth Bishop was a student at Furman when she decided she wanted to become an opera singer.\u00a0 A few decades later, she was singing the leading role of Fricka in \u201cDas Rheingold\u201d at Metropolitan Opera in New York. The 1989 Furman graduate\u2019s opera career has taken her far from Greenville, but she will be returning soon to perform as a featured soloist in the Greenville Chorale\u2019s concert \u201cFrom Broadway With Love\u201d at the Peace Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20131020\/ent\/310200018\/met-star-betsy-bishop-sings-hometown-crowd-chorale-s-broadway-?gcheck=1\"><strong>Read more in The Greenville News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Bishop was a student at Furman when she decided she wanted to become an opera singer.\u00a0 A few decades later, she was singing the leading role of Fricka in \u201cDas Rheingold\u201d at Metropolitan Opera in New York. The 1989 Furman graduate\u2019s opera career has taken her far from Greenville, but she will be returning soon to perform as a featured soloist in the Greenville Chorale\u2019s concert \u201cFrom Broadway With Love\u201d at the Peace Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","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=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}