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Sunday Morning Opera: I Need a Drink

July 30, 2017July 30, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, FAITH, Music, Opera, OPERA, Proverbs Challenge, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson 0

I need a drink, badly. You will notice a crisp, new Pink Flamingo. There’s a reason for the change and my craving for something

Sunday Morning Opera: Sharkweek

July 23, 2017July 22, 2017 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

Sunday Morning Opera: Nessun dorma

July 16, 2017July 15, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Music, Opera, OPERA, Proverbs Challenge 1

Last week, one of the music magazines ran a list of their top ten Nessun dorma tenors/and or performances. Frankly, when you leave Richard

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

Sunday Morning Opera: Oh, That Wonderful Smile!

June 25, 2017June 25, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, FAITH, MAIN PAGE, Music, OPERA

Without appearing prejudicial, I think, without a doubt, Dmitri Hvorostovsky has the most wonderful smile I’ve ever seen. Like most honest people who aren’t

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: Songs for My Father

June 11, 2017June 10, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Thomas Hampson

My father, Albert P. Reidhead, would be ninety-three today. We lost him on October 17, 2014. He loved music, especially songs, having come of

Dmitri Hvorostovsky On How to Sing, When to Live Painfully

June 8, 2017June 7, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Faith, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA

I translated this from Russian. The world-famous and beloved opera singer Dmitri Hvorostovsky came to Russia – took part in a grand gala concert

Sunday Morning Opera: Summertime Smackdown

June 4, 2017June 2, 2017 CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

The night before my father died, I was watching the San Francisco Opera’s remarkable version of Porgy and Bess, starring Eric Owens. My father

American Voices About America

May 28, 2017May 27, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson

Tomorrow is Memorial Day. One of the beautiful things about opera is the fact that American singers have a tendency to belt out some

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: The Return of Our Fave

April 30, 2017April 28, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Music, OPERA 1

On Wednesday, in Toronto, Dmitri Hvorostovsky did a concert with Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov. There are some obvious things to notice. First, he

Good Friday

April 14, 2017April 11, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA

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: Take Me Out to the Ballgame

April 2, 2017April 2, 2017 Atlanta Braves, BASEBALL, CULTURE, Hank Aaron, History of the Game, Music

There are two things which go together like patriotism and hotdogs: Baseball and Opera. Please, don’t ask me to explain why. It is completely

Sunday Morning Opera: Va pensiero

March 26, 2017March 25, 2017 CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA

Anyone who knows anything about opera understands the lore and legend of Va pensiero. We also know that when it was conducted by the

Sunday Morning Opera: The Ultimate Baritone Smack-down

March 5, 2017March 5, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson

I have resisted temptation long enough. In honor of the 225th or the 56th birthday Gioachino Rossini, I’m just going to do it. Deal

Sunday Morning Opera: William Warfield

February 26, 2017February 26, 2017 Leontyne Price, Met, Opera, OPERA

William Warfield was one of the great operatic basses – period. He was also married to the legendary Leontyne Price. “…Warfield was a graduate

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

Sunday Morning Opera: He’s Home!

January 29, 2017January 28, 2017 Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Music, OPERA

Our favorite baritone, after over a month in the hospital in St. Petersburg is finally home in London. He looks pale. Please, continue to

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: Sir Bryn Terfel CBE

January 1, 2017December 31, 2016 Baritones, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA 1

Even the average operatic male – tenor, baritone, or bass, gets to play a knight at least once, onstage. Very few ever get to

Sunday Morning Opera: A Little Dmitri

December 17, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA

And – an encore. From what I gather, this is for a new album, recorded yesterday!