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Sunday Morning Opera: Wisdom, Faith, Sex & Violence

July 9, 2017July 8, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, FAITH, Faith, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

Right about now you might be wondering how I’m going to blend my Proverbs Challenge (day 3) with Sunday Morning Opera. You think that’s

Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday Thomas Hampson

July 2, 2017July 1, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Thomas Hampson 2

Thomas Hampson is proof that men are basically disgusting and there is nothing fair when it comes to men and women and aging. He

Misplaced Outrage

June 20, 2017June 19, 2017 Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Democratic Party, Historial Ignorance, Met, Opera, OPERA, POLITICAL, Republicans

Yesterday, I wrote about the ignorant idiots of the right and the left, when it comes to the humanities, Shakespeare, and a controversial version

Sunday Morning Opera: Father’s Day Smack-Down

June 18, 2017June 17, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

Let’s face it, when we go to discuss the role of fathers in opera, we automatically just fast forward to Verdi and that’s that.

Sunday Morning Opera: My Met Top 50

May 21, 2017May 20, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson

We opera fans are a strange bunch of fanatical and very insane individuals. We’re as bad as baseball fanatics. Quite often we are one

Sunday Morning Opera: Baby What a Big Surprise!

May 14, 2017May 13, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA 1

“…There are standing ovations, and there are standing ovations. Those looking for one of the superlative kind would have witnessed an example last

Sunday Morning Opera: “New” Met @ 50!

May 7, 2017May 6, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes 1

This evening the Metropolitan Opera will celebrate 50 years at Lincoln Center. When it opened, the NY Times gushed: “…On September 16, 1966, the

Sunday Morning Opera: Will She or Won’t She?

April 9, 2017April 8, 2017 Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA 2

Last week, the operatic world was shocked to hear that the greatest soprano of a generation – today’s Beverly Sills, Renée Fleming was retiring

Sunday Morning Opera: Marian Anderson

February 19, 2017February 17, 2017 Barihunks, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera

A few weeks ago it was announced that Harriet Tubman was going to be featured on the new twenty dollar bill. It received a

Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday Leontyne Price

February 12, 2017February 11, 2017 Beverly Sills, Bigotry, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

The Diva in a Turban turned ninety this week! There is no argument that she is one of the greatest voices this country has

Sunday Morning Opera: Black History Month – Part I

February 5, 2017February 4, 2017 Bigotry, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, Music, OPERA, Racism

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

Conscience of the King

January 17, 2017January 16, 2017 CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Opera, OPERA 2

As I write this, it is the national holiday celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a worthy holiday for a

Sunday Morning Opera: The Greatest – Ever!

January 8, 2017January 7, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

Tomorrow is the birthday of the greatest baritone of them all, the one who put the hunk in the word baritone and the rest

Sunday Morning Opera: National Opera Week

October 30, 2016October 29, 2016 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson

Two things are going on this week. First, it is National Opera Week. Secondly, today is annual Richard Tucker Foundation Gala. The more I

Sunday Morning Opera: Sex, Violence & Politics

October 23, 2016October 22, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Simon Keenlyside

Anyone who loves opera knows it is all about sex, violence, and politics, only very well sung. Verdi excelled in all three. Giuseppe Fortunino

Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday Dmitri Hvorostovsky!

October 16, 2016October 15, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA

Today is our favorite baritone’s birthday. It is yet another perfect excuse for completely self-indulgent wallowing in the greatest voice of a generation. Works

Sunday Morning Opera: Keenlyside’s Giovanni

October 9, 2016October 8, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside

Simon Keenlyside is back at the Met, doing Giovanni. I like his Giovanni. Heck, I like his Mozart, period. His Mozart is just plain

Sunday Morning Opera: Speedo Green

October 2, 2016October 1, 2016 CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

When you hear the name Speedo Green, opera doesn’t exactly come up as the first career choice. OMG! He is THE NEXT BIG ONE

Sunday Morning Opera: Self-Indulgent Baritone Fix

September 25, 2016September 24, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson

My favorite baritone appears to be morphing into a crooner of the Robert Goulet ilk. Some might think that is an insult, but if

Sunday Morning Opera: The New Met at 50

September 18, 2016September 17, 2016 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

This is one of those wonderful, self-indulgent posts that can be about anything. I’m loving it. I suspect I’ll just meander around Lincoln Center

Sunday Morning Opera: Il Balen Del Suo Sorriso Smackdown

August 21, 2016August 20, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson

When I was working on today’s post, I noticed something interesting. There are many great baritones, yet very few of them, have a recording

Sunday Morning Opera: Richard Tucker

August 7, 2016August 6, 2016 CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

I’m beginning to think he was the best tenor of the lot.

Verdi, Trovatore, and Marxism

July 24, 2016July 23, 2016 Baritones, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

I love Verdi. I am also a total and complete Marxist. Unfortunately, in 1935, there was an unfortunate (for me) harmonic convergence of the

Sunday Morning Opera: Vissi d’arte

July 17, 2016July 16, 2016 CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA

Maria Callas Renée Fleming Mirella Freni Kiri te Kanawa Joan Sutherland And – the best for last…

I Understand Tosca

July 12, 2016July 11, 2016 Abuse, Art, Barihunks, Baritones, CRIME, CULTURE, FAITH, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes

Like I told my cousin last night, I’m frantic. I’m terribly upset about losing my home, when it is so very simple. What has

Sunday Morning Opera: Tosca, I Need Tosca

July 10, 2016July 9, 2016 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson

I’ve had a rough week. I think everyone has. At times like these, we all need a little bit of Tosca.

Sunday Morning Opera: From Russia with Love

June 19, 2016June 18, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

Our favorite person in opera is touring Russia. He has a performance today in Prague. The important thing is a year ago, his life

Sunday Morning Opera: The Greatest Soprano There Ever Was

May 29, 2016May 25, 2016 Beverly Sills, Met, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

Wednesday would have been Beverly Sills 87th birthday. When it comes to Bubbles, where do you begin? I’ll start with my favorite and end

Sunday Morning Opera: The Best Rigoletto?

May 8, 2016May 7, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

The other day, Barihunks did a Tweet asking who was the best Rigoletto? It is quite obvious – Sherrill Milnes. Who is the best?

Sunday Morning Opera: Shakespeare in Opera

April 24, 2016April 23, 2016 Art, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

William Shakespeare died 400 years ago, yesterday. In many ways Shakespeare and opera is a match made in heaven. The greatest operatic performance I