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Sunday Morning Opera: Belated Happy Birthday to Placi

February 4, 2018February 3, 2018 CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo 0

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

Sunday Morning Opera: Back to My Roots

January 14, 2018January 13, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

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

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

December 10, 2017November 26, 2017 CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

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

Sunday Morning Opera: Nessun dorma

December 3, 2017November 26, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Music, Opera, OPERA, Proverbs Challenge 1

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

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

This week saw the celebration of opera as a genera, an art form, and way of life. There are those who consider it the

Sunday Morning Opera: The Wild West

October 22, 2017October 17, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

Fortunately, there is an opera for everything, including the Wild West. La fanciulla del West, by Giacomo Puccini, directly followed his masterpiece, Madama Butterfly.

Sunday Morning Opera: Stormy Weather

September 3, 2017September 1, 2017 Baritones, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

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 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: 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

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,

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: The Heavy Heart Edition

December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Melanoma, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Opera: Nessun Dorma Smackdown

June 5, 2016June 2, 2016 CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA

To prove I am not a total bigot when it comes to tenors let’s try a little Nessum Dorman Smackdown. My favorite – the

Sunday Morning Opera: Shakespeare in Opera

April 24, 2016April 23, 2016 Art, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

William Shakespeare died 400 years ago, yesterday. In many ways Shakespeare and opera is a match made in heaven. The greatest operatic performance I

Sunday Morning Opera: Saying Good-bye to Jimmy

April 17, 2016April 16, 2016 CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

“…I really recommend the following. Before you’re going to hear a piece, any piece, for the first time, don’t do anything. Just go an

Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday Leontyne Price

February 14, 2016February 13, 2016 Beverly Sills, Met, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

In my humble opinion, the greatest voices this country has ever produced are: 1. Sherrill Milnes 2. Beverly Sills 3. Leontyne Price 4. Elvis

Sunday Morning Opera: Placi Turns 75!

January 24, 2016January 22, 2016 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

Okay, so he’s a tenor. He’s also my favorite tenor. I’ve seen him so many times at the Met: Otello, Don Carlo, Traviata, Tosca,

Sunday Morning Opera: Au Fond Du Temple Saint

January 17, 2016January 16, 2016 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson

There are times when nothing needs to be said. This is one of those.

Sunday Morning Opera: 50 Years of the Greatest of Them All

December 20, 2015December 19, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson

On December 22, 1965, the greatest Baritone there ever was and ever will be walked onto the stage of the Metropolitan Opera (at the

Sunday Morning Opera: Celebrating 50 Years of the Greatest – Ever

November 15, 2015November 14, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

December 22 will mark the 50th anniversary of Sherrill Milnes debut at the Met. He played Valentin in Faust. Montserrat Caballé also made her

Sunday Morning (Horse) Opera – On Saturday

October 24, 2015October 23, 2015 As a Christian, Barihunks, Baritones, Classic Hollywood, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Movies about Wyatt Earp, Music, OK Corral, Opera, OPERA, Senior Citizen, Sherrill Milnes, Wild West, WYATT EARP

Because tomorrow is St. Crispan’s Day, I’m doing our Sunday morning opera on Saturday. Monday is the 26th. We all know what happened at

Sunday Morning Opera: The Met, Mets, Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s Birthday & My Father

October 18, 2015October 17, 2015 Alzheimer's Disease, Baritones, BASEBALL, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Family, History of the Game, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, The Pink Flamingo's Father, Thomas Hampson

The problem with opera is that is is this big, huge sport of kings and queens, but it is also terribly intimate. You get

Sunday Morning Opera: The Pink Flamingo Is 10 Years Old Today

October 4, 2015October 3, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes

There is a reason for the white rose. It symbolizes hope, renewal, and homage to new starts, and is symbol for purity and virtue.

How The Metropolitan Opera Blew It

September 24, 2015September 23, 2015 Art, Barihunks, Baritones, Bigotry, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Racism

Ten years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the first opera company in Washington, DC was founded, in 1873 by former slaves. It was also the

Sunday Morning Opera: Otello

August 23, 2015August 20, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson 1

If you want to know why we are baritone junkies, well, um…okay, it’s about the voice, right? The Met Season opens on September 21

Sunday Morning Opera: Tosca, I Need Tosca

July 19, 2015July 18, 2015 Baritones, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Historial Ignorance, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes 5

Tosca is my very favorite opera. I’m a junkie. Let’s be honest here, the greatest Scarpia ever is Sherrill Milnes, then again he’s also

Sunday Morning Opera: The Metropolitan Opera’s Disgusting New Racism

July 12, 2015July 11, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, Bigotry, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Racism, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson 5

The world knows I’m an opera freak. I’ve been that way since 1978. I started thinking about the ‘greats’. It dawned on me that