Alan Goffinski appears in the following:
Aida: 100% Egyptian Cotton
Thursday, April 27, 2023
“Opera has always been not just adjacent to colonial conquest, but perhaps … quite a large part of it.” Pranathi Diwakar, Every Voice with Terrance McKnight researcher. When the US an...
Aida: Off the Chain
Thursday, April 20, 2023
At the heart of Verdi's opera “Aida” is an African love story, where an Egyptian general and an Ethiopian princess fall in love. It premiered in Cairo in 1871, but the truth is, very ...
Aida: Red Heart, White Eyes
Thursday, April 13, 2023
In Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida,” Princess Aida is torn between her homeland of Ethiopia (ruled by her father, King Amonasro) and her captor, the Egyptian leader Radamès who loves her and w...
Otello: The North Star
Thursday, April 06, 2023
As the one Black man in Shakespeare’s play and Verdi’s opera, Otello was not only tokenized, but villainized, criticized and minimized. With such an emphasis on Otello’s flaws, how is...
Otello: Black Handkerchiefs Matter
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Giuseppe Verdi's Otello rose from enslavement to the ranks of army general and marries an aristocratic Venetian woman. It’s difficult to imagine the rich cultural heritage of Otello’...
Otello: Haters
Thursday, March 23, 2023
This week on Every Voice with Terrance McKnight, we go deeper into Giuseppe Verdi's character of the “Moor of Venice." Otello is a celebrated general in the Venetian army, and as a Bl...
Otello: UNMOORED
Thursday, March 16, 2023
“Otello” debuted in Milan in 1887, just two years after European nations gathered in Berlin to agree on a campaign to carve up and colonize the African continent for their own profit....
The Magic Flute: Recycling
Thursday, March 09, 2023
The use of blackface is a dying trend, but it was fundamental to one of the most popular operas of all time, Mozart’s hit comedic opera, “The Magic Flute“. Over the last few decades a...
The Hybrid: A Miracle Mule
Thursday, October 27, 2022
A fantastical mix of two beasts comes together, thrives, and does something scientists thought it could never do
The Water Walker: One Surfer’s Epic Escape
Thursday, October 20, 2022
A muscly earthling figures out a way to stand on the waves.
The Unimaginable: How Gravitational Waves (Literally) Rocked Our World
Thursday, October 13, 2022
An invisible entity journeys to Planet Earth and literally rocks our world.
The Trio: A Bald Eagle Love Story
Thursday, October 06, 2022
Look up in the sky! It is something that scientists thought could never happen.
The Guardian: Tsetse Fly Defenders
Thursday, September 29, 2022
A winged creature frightens countless villagers but may be a kind of protector.
Terrestrials: The Mastermind
Friday, September 23, 2022
Lulu Miller, intrepid host and fearless mother of two boys, went off and put together a little something for kids. All kids: hers, yours, and the one still living inside us all.
The Mastermind: An Octopus Heist
Thursday, September 22, 2022
A color-changing creature many people assumed to be brainless outsmarts his human captors.
