As Ringmaster in Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

performed at Detroit Opera House

With Soprano Andriana Chuchman

'Carmina Burana' at MOT -- you don't want to miss this experience

All of the soloists were wonderful and received huge, well-deserved applause. But we would be remiss if we did not call out two favorites. Canadian soprano Andriana Chuchman ... Also, Romanian baritone Marian Pop is positively captivating. We fell in love with him in MOT’s productions of La Boheme and Cyrano … and he continues to serve up notes with power and clarion virtue at both ends of his impressive range.

By PATTY NOLAN -   Detroit Theater Examiner

Michigan Opera Theatre goes over the top with pair of works

Baritone soloist Marian Pop's expressive singing was the musical highlight of "Carmina."

By MARK STRYKER for Detroit Free Press

MOT's 'Carmina Burana' is an operatic circus 

Happily unaffected by the all the visual business was the splendid singing of soprano Adriana Chuchman and baritone Marian Pop. Chuchman, who made her MOT debut last season as Yum-Yum in "The Mikado," is a well-schooled artist with a warm sound and an upper register that seems to have no limit. Pop, whose white-face makeup and weathered red costume suggested the ringmaster of death, brought equal measures of character and burnished sound to each of his moments in the spotlight. 

By LAWRENCE B. JOHNSON for The Detroit News

A few pictures from Carmina Burana in Detroit

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