A birthday recital from the greatest voice this nation has ever produced, and the greatest baritone in the history of opera.
Happy Birthday Sherrill Milnes
Category: Beverly Sills
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
Sunday Morning Opera: A Smackdown
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.
Sunday Morning Opera: Stormy Weather
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)
Sherrill Milnes & Beverly Sills
Everyone who knows me knows that I have a fairly strict baritones only, philosophy in life. Once in awhile a tenor might be needed
Sunday Morning Opera: Bubbles
Sunday Morning Opera: A Wedding & A Funeral
In time for the Royal Wedding, there are weddings in opera. Very few have happy endings, obviously. There are many marriages in opera. Instead
Sunday Morning Opera: The Ides of March
The Ides of March will be on Thursday, this year. On the corresponding date, in 44 BC, saw the death of Julius Caesar, and
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Sunday Morning Opera: Let’s Bubble!
Sunday Morning Opera: Thais Smackdown
Sunday Morning Opera:
I’m still hurting. The only way I know to handle it is by dealing with the greatest of them all.
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Sunday Morning Opera: Giving Thanks
Music to celebrate our country, on our unique holiday week. All voices and composers are American.
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Sunday Morning Opera: Celebrating Opera
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: Baritones and Stress
You may have noticed I’ve been on autopilot the past week or so. There are reasons. Things were so iffy last night I was
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Sunday Morning Opera: Tomorrow!
Tomorrow is the day we’ve been waiting for since early May. In just a few hours the amazing chandeliers will begin their journey upward,
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Sunday Morning Opera: American Songs
Sunday Morning Opera – Total Eclipse of the Sun
It is amazing how you can locate thematic music from opera. I was trying to find something about the sun, specifically baritone. Instead, I
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Sunday Morning Opera: Wisdom, Faith, Sex & Violence
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: My Met Top 50
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: “New” Met @ 50!
This evening the Metropolitan Opera will celebrate 50 years at Lincoln Center. When it opened, the NY Times gushed: “…On September 16, 1966, the
Read MoreSunday Morning Opera: Will She or Won’t She?
Last week, the operatic world was shocked to hear that the greatest soprano of a generation – today’s Beverly Sills, Renée Fleming was retiring
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Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday Leontyne Price
The Diva in a Turban turned ninety this week! There is no argument that she is one of the greatest voices this country has
Read MoreSunday Morning Opera: Celebrating the Greatest – Ever
Beginning at midnight on January 10, I’ll be tweeting 24 hours of music honoring the greatest baritone there ever was. There is a classic
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Sunday Morning Opera: The Greatest – Ever!
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: Cheesy Songs & Baritones
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: National Opera Week
Two things are going on this week. First, it is National Opera Week. Secondly, today is annual Richard Tucker Foundation Gala. The more I
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Sunday Morning Opera: The New Met at 50
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
Read MoreSunday Morning Opera: The Greatest Soprano There Ever Was
Wednesday would have been Beverly Sills 87th birthday. When it comes to Bubbles, where do you begin? I’ll start with my favorite and end
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