Ira siff biography wife

Toggle the options to the right to accept inquiries. Siff began to study voice, and made his debut as a tenor in Turning to cabaret, Ira created an act using vocal parody of opera, jazz, and other styles of music, gaining critical acclaim, and a loyal following. For the past thirty years, Mr. In , he turned to stage directing, gaining critical acclaim for his production of Tosca, starring Aprile Millo, and his semi-staged Les Huguenots at Carnegie Hall, starring Marcello Giordani.

Following Madama Butterfly in Lima, Mr. February brought a reprise of Lakme starring Eglise Gutierrez, this time in semi-staging at Carnegie Hall. For five seasons he has been the Guest Commentator on all the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.

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Gutierrez, restaged his Tanglewood production of Cosi for Naples Opera, and was a guest teacher of bel canto technique at The Royal and the Amsterdam Conservatory in The Netherlands where he returned in , and , and has now been appointed Permanent Guest Teacher. He has also given master classes in bel canto and verismo for the Metropolitan Opera Guild every season since Ira lectures on opera twenty times a season for two private classes.

He returns this season as Weekly Commentator on the Met Broadcasts for the sixth year.