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Sunday Morning Opera: Black History Month, Part II

February 17, 2019February 16, 2019 CULTURE, Music, OPERA 0

Sorry, I can’t help it. I LOVE this music! Where possible, I have used Porgy & Bess. Next week will feature some of the

Sunday Morning Opera: Black History Month – Part I

February 10, 2019February 3, 2019 Bigotry, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, Music, OPERA, Racism 0

Once upon a time there was an episode of Bonanza about the good people of Virginia City engaging the top opera singer of the

Sunday Morning Opera: A Maltese Birthday

January 27, 2019January 26, 2019 CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo

The past week included dueling tenor birthdays. Let’s face it, as beautiful as the Maltese Tenor is, Placi is venerable.

Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday Placido Domingo

January 20, 2019January 19, 2019 Baritones, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes

In the world of opera, it is rather interesting that the most dynamic tenor-baritone duo in history celebrates birthdays about a week apart. Last

Sunday Morning Opera:Aida

December 30, 2018December 29, 2018 CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

Verdi’s masterpiece, Aida, premiered on December 24, 1871, at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo. Let’s be honest. There is only one clip that

Sunday Morning Opera: José Carreras

December 9, 2018December 8, 2018 CULTURE, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo

José Carreras, survivor, turned seventy-two on December 5. Having lost a cousin and several friends to the cancer which hit him, this is something

Sunday Morning Opera: A Recital for My Birthday

December 2, 2018November 30, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson

Today is my birthday. I’ve decided to have a recital of my favorites. One of the fun things about opera is the possibility of

Sunday Morning Opera: A Smackdown

November 25, 2018November 24, 2018 Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA

Sunday Morning Opera: Remember

November 18, 2018November 17, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

It will be a year on Thanksgiving day. We remember it for the loss of three critically important people. John F. Kennedy C. S.

Sunday Morning Opera – Sir Bryn Terfel

November 4, 2018November 3, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Music, OPERA

Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, golfer, turns fifty-three on November 9.

Sunday Morning Opera: Don Giovanni

October 28, 2018October 27, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson

My obsessive love affair with opera began on the afternoon of May 6, 1978 when Sherrill Milnes walked onto the stage in Atlanta, where

Don’t Be a Janis

October 22, 2018October 21, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CRIME, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, Sherrill Milnes

I think I angered someone on Facebook when I did not react as I should to a photo of an obviously stoned Janis Joplin.

Sunday Morning Opera: Pavarotti

October 14, 2018October 13, 2018 CULTURE, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

The Great Luciano would have been 83 on October 12. We have another operatic birthday on October 16. I can’t do it. Just thinking

Sunday Morning Opera: Montserrat Caballé

October 7, 2018October 6, 2018 CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

We’ve lost another of the all-time greats. Montserrat Caballé, 12 April 1933 – 6 October 2018, has died in her beloved Barcelona. Her bel

Sunday Morning Opera: 50 Years of Placi at the Met!

September 30, 2018September 29, 2018 CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes

Funny thing, I think I’ve seen Placido Domingo at the Met, more than any other tenor. I do think he is one of the

Sunday Morning Opera: It’s That Time of Year

September 23, 2018September 22, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

If you are an opera freak like I am, tomorrow is Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Fourth of July, and a birthday all wrapped up

Sunday Morning Opera: Shenandoah Smackdown

September 9, 2018September 8, 2018 Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Thomas Hampson

Sunday Morning Opera: Richard Tucker

August 26, 2018August 25, 2018 CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill

Sunday Morning Opera: Vissi d’arte

August 19, 2018August 18, 2018 CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

MY FAVORITE:

Sunday Morning Opera: Crazy Relatives

August 12, 2018August 11, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Luciano Pavarotti, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

Beverly Sills (Lucia) Patricia Kern (Alisa) Carlo Bergonzi (Edgardo) Piero Cappuccilli (Enrico) Justino Diaz (Raimondo) Adolf Dallapozza (Arturo) Joan Sutherland (Lucia) Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo)

Sunday Morning Opera: My Very Favorite Aria Smackdown

August 5, 2018August 4, 2018 Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson

This is the key to my heart. I love this piece of music. On Saturday, May 6, 1978 in Atlanta, with the Metropolitan Opera

Sunday Morning Opera: A Tosca Smackown!

July 16, 2018July 7, 2018 CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Luciano Pavarotti, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Richard Tucker

Sunday Morning Opera: The Handsome Baritone

July 1, 2018June 24, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Thomas Hampson

Thomas Hampson had a birthday on June 28. The man should be sainted for his Cole Porter! The man’s greatest contribution is to American

Sherrill Milnes & Beverly Sills

June 17, 2018June 14, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

Everyone who knows me knows that I have a fairly strict baritones only, philosophy in life. Once in awhile a tenor might be needed

Robert Merrill

June 10, 2018June 8, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Robert Merrill

Robert Merrill (June 4, 1917 – October 23, 2004) was my mother’s favorite. It is very difficult to find terribly dramatic moments with him,

Sunday Morning Opera: A Wedding & A Funeral

May 20, 2018May 19, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

In time for the Royal Wedding, there are weddings in opera. Very few have happy endings, obviously. There are many marriages in opera. Instead

Sunday Morning Opera: Leonard Warren

April 29, 2018April 27, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

They say he loved sea shanties!

Sunday Morning Opera: Operas Written by Women

April 15, 2018April 14, 2018 Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE, Music, OPERA

There are well over 500 operas written by women. Can you name one? I can’t. I can’t even name one of the top ten

Saturday Morning with Women Composers: Hildegard von Bingen

April 14, 2018April 20, 2018 CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA 1

On Wednesday, Metropolitan Opera superstar Jamie Barton went on a twitter storm about women composers. Because I follow her on Twitter, I decided to

SUNDAY MORNING OPERA: Singing While Ticked

April 8, 2018April 7, 2018 CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Richard Tucker

I’m extremely ticked as I do this post. Very, very ticked, to the point where someone did not advise me properly, and cost a