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Sunday Morning Opera: A Maltese Birthday

January 27, 2019January 26, 2019 CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo
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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

January 20, 2019January 19, 2019 Baritones, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes
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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

January 13, 2019January 12, 2019 Baritones, CULTURE, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes
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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: Oh Holy Night

December 23, 2018December 22, 2018 Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Jonathan Estabrooks, Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Thomas Hampson
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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: José Carreras

December 9, 2018December 8, 2018 CULTURE, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo
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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

December 2, 2018November 30, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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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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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
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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: 50 Years of Placi at the Met!

September 30, 2018September 29, 2018 CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes
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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: Stormy Weather

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

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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
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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
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SUNDAY MORNING OPERA: Singing While Ticked

April 8, 2018April 7, 2018 CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Richard Tucker
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I’m extremely ticked as I do this post.  Very, very ticked, to the point where someone did not advise me properly, and cost a

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Sunday Morning Opera: Wyatt Earp’s Birthday

March 18, 2018March 17, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, WYATT EARP
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Wyatt Earp was born 170 years old ago tomorrow.  And, yes there is an opera for that – La Fanciulla del West.  And, of

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Sunday Morning Opera: Belated Happy Birthday to Placi

February 4, 2018February 3, 2018 CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo
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Placido Domingo turned his seventy-seven on January 21.  It is a total insult to the great tenor that we are just now getting around

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Sunday Morning Opera: Back to My Roots

January 14, 2018January 13, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Yesterday was the first time I’ve been able to listen to opera, or the Met since our great loss.  It was very difficult, and

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Sunday Morning Opera: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125

December 10, 2017November 26, 2017 CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Eric Leinsdof Sherrill Milnes Placido Domingo Jane Marsh Josephine Veasey This is considered one of the finest recordings of Beethoven’s classic yet created. I

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Sunday Morning Opera: Nessun dorma

December 3, 2017November 26, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Music, Opera, OPERA, Proverbs Challenge 1
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First published on July 16, 2017. Last week, one of the music magazines ran a list of their top ten Nessun dorma tenors/and or

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Sunday Morning Opera: Celebrating Opera

November 5, 2017November 4, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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This week saw the celebration of opera as a genera, an art form, and way of life.  There are those who consider it the

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Wild West

October 22, 2017October 17, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Fortunately, there is an opera for everything, including the Wild West. La fanciulla del West, by Giacomo Puccini, directly followed his masterpiece, Madama Butterfly. 

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Sunday Morning Opera: Stormy Weather

September 3, 2017September 1, 2017 Baritones, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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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
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This evening the Metropolitan Opera will celebrate 50 years at Lincoln Center.  When it opened, the NY Times gushed: “…On September 16, 1966, the

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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
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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

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Sunday Morning Opera: I Want to Hold Your Hand (sort of)

January 15, 2017January 7, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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This is my favorite duet. Don Giovanni: There I’ll give you my hand, There you’ll say yes: See, it is not far, my love,

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Greatest – Ever!

January 8, 2017January 7, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Tomorrow is the birthday of the greatest baritone of them all, the one who put the hunk in the word baritone and the rest

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Heavy Heart Edition

December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Melanoma, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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By now you’ve heard the news about our favorite baritone.  It is heart-breaking.  Opera is like baseball.  It does break your heart.  It will

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Sunday Morning Opera: Cheesy Songs & Baritones

November 20, 2016November 19, 2016 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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The best baritone crooning is cheesy. I doesn’t matter who the baritone is, it just needs to be a little cheesy. (I’ve added 1

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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
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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

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Sunday Morning Opera: Leonard Bernstein

August 28, 2016August 27, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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I wonder how many people besides moi owe their love of classical music to Leonard Bernstein and his Sunday afternoon young people’s concerts?  I

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Sunday Morning Opera: Nessun Dorma Smackdown

June 5, 2016June 2, 2016 CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA
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To prove I am not a total bigot when it comes to tenors let’s try a little Nessum Dorman Smackdown. My favorite – the

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Sunday Morning Opera: Shakespeare in Opera

April 24, 2016April 23, 2016 Art, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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William Shakespeare died 400 years ago, yesterday. In many ways Shakespeare and opera is a match made in heaven.  The greatest operatic performance I

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

screen-shot-2016-10-29-at-10-50-47-pm SJ Reidhead (aka The Pink Flamingo) is a writer based in New Mexico. The author of two published novels, both westerns: Dust Devil and The Second Mrs. Earp and two published works of non-fictions: TRAVESTY: Frank Waters Earp Agenda Exposed and A Church for Helldorado, Endicott Peabody's 1882 Tombstone Diary. One of the leading authorities on the life of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone during the Earp years, she is writing a series of murder mysteries set in modern day Tombstone. The author is also working on a book about fashion in the Wild West. When complete, there will be over 2100 unpublished antique photographs dating from 1855-1910.

The author's work has appeared in Wild West, True West, Blogcritics, and The Tombstone Times. Recently the author has had to deal with a father who succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. This is leading to a book dealing with the frustrations of dealing with the frustrations of the disease, finance, legal, health-care, and things no one bothers telling families about it. A portion of the book will contain entries from a blog she kept, detailing the struggle with her father's AD. She is also working on a murder mystery series set in modern day Tombstone and Cochise County. Several books of essays on Christian living are currently in edits. A book of essays and revisions of articles about Wyatt Earp has been completed and will include her latest work detailing her theory about the murder of his second wife, Mattie.

SJ Reidhead has been involved in Republican politics since she was 'a little kid'. During the Reagan years she was a lobbyist working with various non-profit organizations who were attempting to salvage NASA and the American space program after the disastrous Carter years. In spite of ups and downs, and numerous disappointments, politically, it is obvious the only political hope for this country is via the Republican Party. Along with politics she is an opera fanatic, has been known to stalk baritones to the point of being a baritone junkie, and loves baseball.

The Pink Flamingo went on line on October 4, 2005.

THE PINK FLAMINGO STORY

It started out as a joke. During the seven years I worked with the girls of my parish, leading a youth group, one of the things that I stressed were manners. Part of having manners, the way I see it, is to know how to set a proper table, host a party, cater it, and clean up afterward. I was fortunate enough to have a group of very talented girls in my youth group. They learned how to plan for, and execute large church functions, very properly. During one such function I noticed there were several incredibly tacky pink flamingos sitting on the table. Knowing the girls were up to something, I said nothing. A few months later they did the same thing at a function I was hosting at my home. I said nothing. They had a birthday party for me. More pink flamingos appeared - and a joke was born.

Thanks to the girls, all of whom are now grown, I have a collection of pink flamingos. It has become an ongoing joke. When I began working on my political blog, I realized the only possibly title was The Pink Flamingo!

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