
I’m always interested in what makes a storyteller a good storyteller,” says soprano Maureen Batt. “Whether we’re singing one vowel, one poem, or a whole role, there are stories to be told!” Maureen Batt has been telling musical stories professionally for the past 10 years, both through her new-works-oriented company, “Essential Opera” (co-founded with soprano Erin Bardua), and through her international recital series “Crossing Borders,” which has toured Canada, the United States and Colombia, and recently generated a new album, Breathing in the Shadows, for which Batt sings works by Iranian-Canadian composer Saman Shahi. Fireside Chat “I really hate the…