
Tag: Opera


Sunday Morning Opera: Black History Month, Part II
Sorry, I can’t help it. I LOVE this music! Where possible, I have used Porgy & Bess. Next week will feature some of the
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Sunday Morning Opera: Black History Month – Part I
Once upon a time there was an episode of Bonanza about the good people of Virginia City engaging the top opera singer of the
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Sunday Morning Opera: Gerald Finley

Sunday Morning Opera: A Maltese Birthday
The past week included dueling tenor birthdays. Let’s face it, as beautiful as the Maltese Tenor is, Placi is venerable.
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Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday Placido Domingo
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: Tosca
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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