Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the
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Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday to the Greatest of Them All!
Sherrill Milnes has a birthday on Wednesday. I will be honoring him, all day, on Twitter, every hour on the hour for the entire
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Sunday Morning Opera:Aida
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: Oh Holy Night
I loath Christmas music that is sung poorly and six weeks before Christmas. Today is acceptable. It is December 23. And… We
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Sunday Morning Opera: Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was born on 22 December 1858. It’s a good excuse for a little baritone festival – or…
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Sunday Morning Opera: José Carreras
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: A Recital for My Birthday
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: A Smackdown
Sunday Morning Opera: Remember
It will be a year on Thanksgiving day. We remember it for the loss of three critically important people. John F. Kennedy C. S.
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Sunday Morning Opera: The War to End All Wars
Sunday Morning Opera – Sir Bryn Terfel
Sunday Morning Opera: Don Giovanni
My obsessive love affair with opera began on the afternoon of May 6, 1978 when Sherrill Milnes walked onto the stage in Atlanta, where
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Don’t Be a Janis
I think I angered someone on Facebook when I did not react as I should to a photo of an obviously stoned Janis Joplin.
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Sunday Morning Opera: A Richard Tucker Gala
Sunday Morning Opera: Pavarotti
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: Montserrat Caballé
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: 50 Years of Placi at the Met!
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: It’s That Time of Year
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: Stormy Weather
Sunday Morning Opera: Shenandoah Smackdown
Sunday Morning 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
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Sunday Morning Opera: Richard Tucker
Sunday Morning Opera: Vissi d’arte
Sunday Morning Opera: Crazy Relatives
Beverly Sills (Lucia) Patricia Kern (Alisa) Carlo Bergonzi (Edgardo) Piero Cappuccilli (Enrico) Justino Diaz (Raimondo) Adolf Dallapozza (Arturo) Joan Sutherland (Lucia) Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo)
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Sunday Morning Opera: My Very Favorite Aria Smackdown
This is the key to my heart. I love this piece of music. On Saturday, May 6, 1978 in Atlanta, with the Metropolitan Opera
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Sunday Morning Opera: Sharkweek
Yes, you can find a way to celebrate Sharkweek via opera! Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows them pearly
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To Boldly Go: STEM, the Arts & Wells Fargo, Inc.
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: A Tosca Smackown!
Sunday Opera: Summer Pops Concert
American Voices About America
One of the beautiful things about opera is the fact that American singers have a tendency to belt out some incredible songs about this
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