{"id":746,"date":"2012-07-24T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/07\/the-roots-of-an-opera-singer.html"},"modified":"2012-07-24T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T22:07:00","slug":"the-roots-of-an-opera-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/07\/the-roots-of-an-opera-singer.html","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of an Opera Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my latest Influences column, I speak to left-of-the-dial opera soprano <a href=\"http:\/\/julianasnapper.org\/\">Juliana Snapper<\/a>, who will be part of a festival of new work at REDCAT starting this Thursday.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TeQcSjFYqZ4\/UBAfAeLrcgI\/AAAAAAAABfA\/slgQwrxSsR8\/s1600\/The_Carol_Burnett_Show.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"236\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TeQcSjFYqZ4\/UBAfAeLrcgI\/AAAAAAAABfA\/slgQwrxSsR8\/s320\/The_Carol_Burnett_Show.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><br \/>Snapper&#8217;s work, some of which she&#8217;s created with LA artist Ron Athey, is pretty out there. She was part of what&#8217;s considered the world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.art21.org\/2008\/04\/09\/juliana-snappers-vocal-hysteria\/\">first underwater opera<\/a>, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>I found her down-to-earth and easy to talk to, and was pleased she took us from Carol Burnett to a 17th century composer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-cm-influences-opera-singer-juliana-snapper-20120718,0,4066899.story\">Here<\/a> it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my latest Influences column, I speak to left-of-the-dial opera soprano Juliana Snapper, who will be part of a festival of new work at REDCAT starting this Thursday.Snapper&#8217;s work, some of which she&#8217;s created with LA artist Ron Athey, is pretty out there. She was part of what&#8217;s considered the world&#8217;s first underwater opera, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,53,133,41,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-los-angeles","7":"category-opera","8":"category-performance-art","9":"category-redcat","10":"category-west-coast","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}