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South Asian Opera Singers

Opera singers who are from South Asia (Indian subcontinent) are incredibly rare, and in operas that are set in South Asia and have South Asian characters (Lakmé, set in India,and Les pêcheurs de perles,set in Sri Lanka), those Indian characters are almost always played by white European opera singers. However, after digging deep, I managed to find some South Asian opera singers. Of course, this list isn’t very complete, so if anyone knows about anymore, please feel free to add on!

Sean Panikkar (Sri Lankan-American): He’s an operatic tenor who has worked with the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Fort Worth Opera, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. He’s portrayed the characters of Rodolfo from Puccini’s La bohème, and Tybalt from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. The above photo is of him as Nadir from Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) with the Fort Worth Opera, and the above video is of his performance as Tamino from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) with the New Orleans Opera. He’s perhaps the first Sri Lankan tenor to play Nadir. 

Maya Kherani (Indian-American): She’s a coloratura soprano who played the role of Meera in the world premiere of Jack Perla’s River of Light with the Houston Grand Opera in 2014. Other roles include Marie from Donizetti’s La fille du régiment and Gilda from Verdi’s Rigoletto. She’s soon to star in the West Edge Opera’s production of Britomarte’s L’arbore di Diana. The above video is her recital performance of ‘Credete al mio dolore’ from Handel’s Alcina.

Kishani Jayasinghe (Sri Lankan-British): A Sri Lankan-British soprano from Colombo, she is the first South Asian soprano to sing as a soloist in the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and at Buckingham Palace, where sang at Prince Charles’ 60th birthday with the Royal Opera House, and has been awarded with the Grand Prix and Audience Prize in Marmade, France. She is also the first Sri Lankan soprano to play the role of priestess Leïla in Les pêcheurs de perles with the Nederlandse Reisopera in 2015. Other roles include Mimi from La bohème, Rusalka from Dvorak’s Rusalka, and Violetta from Verdi’s La traviata. The above video is her recital performance of the Jewel Song from Gounod’s Faust.

Nikhil Navkal (Indian-American): Hailing from Massachusetts, he is also one of the few South Asian tenors to portray Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles, this time with Opera Australia. He has also portrayed the roles of Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Tebaldo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi. The above video is of him performing a Rossini quartet along with Karin Laine, Caroline Tye, and Kofi Hayford.

Alok Kumar (Indian-American): Another Indian tenor, he performed the role of Chyavana in the world premiere of Ravi Shankar’s opera Sukanya. He’s also performed the roles of the Duke of Mantua in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Palm Beach Opera, Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata with Baltimore Concert Opera, Don José in Bizet’s Carmen with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, and Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth with the Opera Company of Middlebury. Unfortunately, I could not find any videos of his performances.

Danielle de Niese (Australian-American/Sri Lankan Burgher): A Sri Lankan Burgher lyric soprano, not only has she sung with the Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden, but she’s sung in Ridley Scott’s Hannibal, won an Emmy Award at 16 years of age, and even performed with rapper LL Cool J. She is most famous for her role as Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 2005. Other roles include Donna Elvira from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Rosina from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, and Musetta from La bohème. The above video is her performance of V’adoro pupille from Giulio Cesare.

Also, me. Pakistani-American mezzo. Super awesome.

Also, I know at least two other South Asian mezzos from LA. We’re around.

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They go all shy after they’ve crimped during the zoo times. Especially Vince. Clearly they do prefer to crimp together at night in private… 

#what the hell?#I hadn’t noticed this before#but I’d suggest it’s not exactly about the privacy#it’s the intimacy with Howard#he’s used to that by series three#but here#it’s SO personal#they connect in a very intimate way#and Vince worries that Howard will SEE him#like really see how he feels#they have to be vulnerable#that’s why Howard gets annoyed later when Vince drags him into one#it’s equivalent to giving him a big snog#only with their minds#so#yeah#they are awkward at first#but also#Howard looks so WISTFUL after?!?#like#he just shared something that he doesn’t quite understand how to contextualise#but Vince does#which is why he’s so shy#maybe he thought Howard might finally kiss him after one  (via @agarlandoffreshlycuttears)

That is absolutely it; crimping is all about their intimacy with each other, something they and they alone share. And it is romantic and revealing in that intimacy. Even the subjects of the crimps; they’re about mundane, even ridiculous little memories that the two of them share together– that time they made that soup, that time Howard had to snog a llama to get it to calm down, the mornings where they make pancakes together, the time they did that jigsaw. They’re about reaffirming and celebrating the heart of their relationship, couched in their own silly little invented song genre. They’re both very warm and very vulnerable, and afterwards they both always need to take a little moment, especially early on when they are both more open as people.

And I mean, Vince’s reaction after Howard pulls out a crimp in front of Harold Boon and Lance Dior says it all. The crimps are them, theirs, an expression of their relationship, and no-one else should have access to that. In that same episode, it’s a crimp that convinces Vince not to run away to be a junior manager at Rumbelow’s, it’s Howard reminding him– this is us, this is who we are. Which is very telling in an episode specifically about a crisis of identity– and indeed that theme runs throughout S3, as they both define themselves more and more by outside things and forget to place value on themselves and their relationship. Power of the Crimp is one of the few episodes in S3 that ends with them fully in-sync and happy together, because the crimps remind them of the intimacy that’s still there, how well they jive, everything they’ve shared.

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