An internationally acclaimed tenor from New Orleans is pairing circus acrobatics and opera, with a lot of help from his friends. That's what we feel opera is," said Bryan Hymel , who has performed with opera companies around the world. For this one, they've teamed with the owner of Fly Circus Space, a circus training center , to create vocal and visual duets, trios and larger ensembles, with a different circus performance for each aria sung by Hymel, Kyriakidou and others. Elizabeth Rose, who owns the Fly Circus Space studio in New Orleans, said that when she got Hymel's email suggesting the collaboration, her response was, "Yes! The entire Fly Circus Company will join in a spectacle for the final number.

Source: ABC News June 01, 2018 22:41 UTC