I watched Marie as she quietly prepared herself for the rehearsal of Iphigénie en Tauride, an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck about the tragic fate of an ancient Greek woman. I watched with amazement as she so naturally balanced, focused her body, and only after a while I took a photograph of Marie.
Marie Angel is a dramatic soprano. She sings in classical and contemporary operas by most renowned composers. Marie was a star of the Opera Factory staged performances, acting in most of their productions, singing the roles of Poppea (Monteverdi), Iphigenia (Gluck), Hell’s Angels (Nigel Osborne) and elsewhere in operas by Mauricio Kagel, Bruno Maderna, Michael Tippett, Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and John Cage.