Opera Chic

Illified Illinoisan Brewer's Illinest Illterview

The Southern Illinoisan, a local newspaper in Illinois, features Illinoisan Christine Brewer on the cover of their Flipside digest. Brewer will be singing in recital this Tuesday & Wednesday at the SIUC Campus as part of the Southern Illinois Music Festival. She'll be knocking out Schumann, Barber, Beethoven and Strauss for her hometown fans.

Brewer (who is originally from Grand Tower, IL and now lives in Lebanon, IL) is described by Ed Benyas, artistic director of the Southern Illinois Music Festival, as "a great down-home, Southern Illinois woman." OoOoOoO! That's what she wants them to think! She's a st8~up hustler! Go here for the full interview.

Christine Brewer Replaces Mattila, Voigt, Fleming; Says She's Ready to Replace Bush, Too

Christine Brewer is not only a talented singer, a tolerant woman (she didn't kill the criminally insane costume designer of this most unfortunate production, and who wouldn't have, seriously) but she can also be basically omnipresent: first she replaced Opera Chic's beloved Renèe Fleming (@ the gala of the first Festival del Sole in the Napa Valley), Deborah Voigt (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with our Jimbo Levine and the BSO) and now she's going to sub for Karita Mattila, again with Levine and the BSO, in Fidelio.

We were seriously thinking to hire an intern to sub for us during the Easter holidays (Opera Chic is going to Cortina d'Ampezzo and you're not), but we're thinking of calling La Brewer instead.