DVT Divergence Vocal Theater

Exciting developments on the Everything Misha front!
 This month, I’m embarking on a major recording project a KUFH: Elliot Cole’s setting of my libretto, Selkie, a sea tale. The work is scored for voice, piano and cello, and pianist Kyle Evans and cellist Patrick Moore are joining me on the recording; expect a... Read on >

Thank you, Universe, for all the support and love of family, friends, and co-conspirators! The year squeals by fastfastfast; as gratefulness abounds, here’s my 2011 in review:

A performance piece I conceived based on French art songs, poetry and dance with Joanna Whitsett, Meg Brooker and Miranda Herbert: Voix... Read on >

“...every scene from real life and from the world...individual pictures of human life, set to the universal language of music, are never bound to it, never correspond to it with absolute necessity, but relate to it only as an example relates to a universal concept” (Nietzsche). A finger pointing to the moon, then,... Read on >

(from March 2011)

She is Wild. She is cunning, her name: “Klytemestra (‘famous cunning’)” (Komar 28). She is volatile. She is fierce. She takes a toll on my body and my voice. I am unaccustomed to using my speaking voice in performance and the stamina required of a non-singing actor is challenging. Every bit of... Read on >

A note from Misha...
I’d like to tell you a little about the strange and serendipitous circumstances whose conspiracy led to the creation of this opera. About a year ago, John Harvey, poet and playwright, asked me to portray Klytemnestra in his new translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon - and I thought, "Oh, God - I... Read on >