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Sunday Morning Opera: The War to End All Wars

November 11, 2018November 9, 2018 20th Century US, Classic Hollywood, CULTURE, HISTORY, Music, OPERA, Simon Keenlyside 0

Simon Keenlyside recorded an album of song, dedicated to those who fought in World War I.

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: A Richard Tucker Gala

October 21, 2018October 20, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Jamie Barton, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA, Richard Tucker, Sherrill Milnes

Today is the annual Richard Tucker Gala. In honor of Richard Tucker, well..

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: Stormy Weather

September 16, 2018September 15, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes

My personal favorite:

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: Simon Keenlyside

September 2, 2018September 1, 2018 Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Music, OPERA, Simon Keenlyside

The only possible way to describe the voice of Simon Keenlyside, who has a birthday this week, is elegant. Nothing else works. I love

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: Sharkweek

July 22, 2018July 21, 2018 Baritones, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Music, OPERA, Thomas Hampson

Yes, you can find a way to celebrate Sharkweek via opera! Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows them pearly

To Boldly Go: STEM, the Arts & Wells Fargo, Inc.

July 18, 2018July 17, 2018 Art, Barack Obama, Classic Hollywood, Classic TV, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, ECONOMY, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE, Music, Obama Administration, OPERA, Science Fiction, Star Trek

First published on September 6, 2016. FYI: My internet service has been down all day. In the mid-1960s, the late Doug Chaffee, a very

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 Opera: Summer Pops Concert

July 8, 2018July 7, 2018 Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Erwin Schrott, Jamie Barton, Joseph Calleja, Music, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Thomas Hampson

American Voices About America

July 2, 2018June 24, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson

One of the beautiful things about opera is the fact that American singers have a tendency to belt out some incredible songs about this

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

Tosca, I Need Tosca

June 24, 2018June 23, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

It’s been a rough week.

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,

Women Composers: The Seventeenth Century – Part IV

June 9, 2018June 8, 2018 CULTURE, Music, Women Composers

Mlle Guédon de Presles (b. early 18th century – c. 1754) is the first woman to have published a book of airs. Barbara of

Sunday Morning Opera: Bubbles

June 3, 2018June 2, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, New McCarthyism, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

I’m a week late.

Women Composers: The Seventeenth Century – Part III

June 2, 2018June 1, 2018 CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Music

Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (1679 – 4 November 1745) was a French harpsichordist and composer. Maria Anna de Raschenau (fl. 18th century) was an

Women Composers: The Seventeenth Century – Part II

May 26, 2018May 24, 2018 CULTURE, Music, Opera

Isabella Leonarda 6 September 1620 – 25 February 1704) was an Ursulin nun from Novara, Italy. Mlle Bocquet (early 17th century–after 1660) was

Sunday Morning Opera: The Wagner Version

May 26, 2018May 26, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

Richard Wagner’s birthday was May 22. Even though Verdi is my favorite, I think Tannhauser might be my favorite opera, especially the Met’s legendary