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Et Diabolus incarnatus est : Horror and Paganism in Opera—An Interview with Composer Ross Crean 

Et Diabolus incarnatus est : Horror and Paganism in Opera—An Interview with Composer Ross Crean

There are not too many operatic works that call directly on the Pagan/Occultist stream of thought. Most recently perhaps, Damon Albarn and Rufus Norris’s opera Dr Deesplit critics in London. (I hated it; it seemed to demean the majesty of Dee and Kelley’s work.) Now, Ross Crean presents a masterly working of a novella by Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan. Before embarking on the meat of Pan (I’m sure Pan would…

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A Synesthete’s Guide to the Unseen: Ross Crean’s “The Great God Pan" 

A Synesthete’s Guide to the Unseen:

Creating and Recording Ross Crean’s Opera “The Great God Pan”

 

This recording concludes a three-year journey through grief and discovery. It began on July 2nd, 2014, when my mother Charleen was diagnosed with terminal stage pancreatic cancer. Exactly three weeks later, on July 23rd, she passed away. When she died, I stopped creating. The wellspring had simply run dry. I had lost one of my best friends and biggest supporters, and it seemed like nothing was going to be…

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How Writing Two Operas in a Year Helped Me to Understand Grief 

How Writing Two Operas in a Year Helped Me to Understand Grief
By Ross Crean

The best day of my life, and the worst day of my life happened in the same year. 

I married my husband William in January 2014. It was a brunch wedding in a mansion located in a suburb of Chicago called Oak Park. The one thing that every person we spoke to had noticed about that day, besides the decorations, the home-hitting homily, and the more-than-appropriate mimosa and Bloody Mary bar, was the fact that my mother was smiles from…

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Ross Crean Interview 2011 

WHY WE LOVE THE MONSTER

by Matt Lansinger

 

                 Let me say this first: Ross Crean should NOT be regarded as an enigma. For those familiar with his work, he has proven himself to be considerably brash and to-the-point about the turmoil and triumphs in his life, both personally and professionally. It makes one wonder why the once-disguised singer/pianist/guitarist has not been made an international superstar once he finally uncovered his face in 2005 with the release of his CD "This Too Shall…

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