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Linnea Leonard Kickasola

Linnea Leonard Kickasola is an opera singer who has sung with such companies as the Chattanooga Opera, Lyric Opera of Waco, Delphi Theatre and Operafestival di Roma. She has been a Resident Artist with the Opera Company of Brooklyn and the Eastern Festival Opera. She received her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory and Bachelor degrees in Voice, English and Piano from Covenant College. Kickasola is also the worship director for Astoria Community Church (PCA). She lives in New York City, with her husband, Joe, daughter, Bronwyn, and son, Matteo.

“Freud’s Last Session”

Imagining the discussion of God, death, love, and sex C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud might have shared, had these large personalities intersected.

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Linnea Leonard Kickasola Oct 1, 2010

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“Freud’s Last Session”

Imagining the discussion of God, death, love, and sex C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud might have shared, had these large personalities intersected.

Linnea Leonard Kickasola Mar 5, 2010

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Telling the truth in difficult times

Equivocation, set in 1606 London, shortly after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, suggests that history is a version of truth told by the winners.

Linnea Leonard Kickasola Dec 11, 2009

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The Royal Family

An amusing, frenetic new paean takes timely jabs at the nature of celebrity and identity in our culture.

Linnea Leonard Kickasola Oct 23, 2009

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Famously compromised

The Met’s new take on Tosca is disjointed and amateurish, and invokes scandal for scandal’s sake, fame for fame’s sake.

Linnea Leonard Kickasola Jun 26, 2009

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Meaning outside of oneself

Two successful, popular and critically acclaimed productions reaffirm that queries about human destiny and the weight of personal choices continue to be piercing and relevant.

Linnea Leonard Kickasola Apr 3, 2009

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Madama Butterfly

While the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Butterfly was a great success, it was more difficult to determine the ultimate success of the live HD transmission.

Linnea Leonard Kickasola Jan 23, 2009

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Life painted as it is

For Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, there was always a sense of hopelessness underlying his words. But at the same time he paints humanity so truly and with such a loving and specific eye that one cannot help but be drawn to his characters.

Linnea Leonard Kickasola Jul 21, 2006

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Career, faith, and family in the city

Contemplating both the costs and blessings of city neighbourhood and community, with an eye towards providence. A meditation on Cheryl Mendelson’s Morningside Heights. Linnea Leonard Kickasola is an opera singer in New York City.