<\/p>\nA scene unfolds in a past production of\u00a0Op\u00e9ra Louisiane’s ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors.’<\/p>\n
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\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n“We’ve been rehearsing on the Manship Theatre stage (for ‘Amahl’), and tonight (Monday) we’ll be rehearsing in costumes,” he said. “I know the part, but a couple of days before coming here, I was reviewing the music, there were some things that I didn’t remember. I said, ‘Let me get this back in my brain.'”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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But things seemed to click once he joined the cast in stage rehearsals. Thomas’ rich bass-baritone immediately brought Balthazar to life in a story that’s special to him.<\/p>\n
“I’d say it’s special because of the story,” he said. “It’s the storytelling of it. When you have an opportunity on stage to tell a story as special as this one, which has all these in intricacies in this journey from the beginning, where you meet this curious little kid that just doesn’t have much, to the climax of the mother trying to take the gold just to be able to feed her family, to Amahl’s giving up the one thing he has, to the story of a miracle unfolding. It’s just one of the most beautiful stories you could tell in opera. There’s just nothing like it.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, Thomas is enjoying his time in Baton Rouge in the days leading up to the performances.<\/p>\n
“It feels so good to be back,” he said. “It’s been four years since I’ve been able to come back to Louisiana. I’ve been doing a lot of traveling and performing in other places, but coming back to Baton Rouge feels just like home. To come back as a professional singer and just seeing the old stomping grounds, it’s really a blessing to be back.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theadvocate.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua Thomas’ bass-baritone voice is as rich when he speaks as when he sings the part of Balthazar on stage. He’ll be playing that character when Op\u00e9ra Louisiane opens its Christmas production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Manship Theatre. The performance will mark the second time Thomas will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2202880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Opera-Louisiane-to-open-Christmas-opera-Amahl-on-Dec-19.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202881,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202879\/revisions\/2202881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}