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Category: Leontyne Price

Sunday Morning Opera:Aida

December 30, 2018December 29, 2018 CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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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

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: Giacomo Puccini

December 16, 2018December 15, 2018 CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA
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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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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: A Richard Tucker Gala

October 21, 2018October 20, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Jamie Barton, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA, Richard Tucker, Sherrill Milnes
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Today is the annual Richard Tucker Gala.  In honor of Richard Tucker, well..

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Sunday Morning Opera: Vissi d’arte

August 19, 2018August 18, 2018 CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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MY FAVORITE:

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American Voices About America

July 2, 2018June 24, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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One of the beautiful things about opera is the fact that American singers have a tendency to belt out some incredible songs about this

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Good Friday

March 30, 2018March 28, 2018 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA
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Sunday Morning Opera – Vissi d´arte Smackdown

February 18, 2018February 17, 2018 CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA
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My Favorite Version:

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Greatest Voice Ever Produced in Mississippi

February 11, 2018February 10, 2018 CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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The immortal Leontyne Price turned 91 on Saturday. I’m using it twice. I think this may be the most stunning moment in the history

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Sunday Morning Opera: Giving Thanks

November 19, 2017November 18, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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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

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: Tomorrow!

September 24, 2017September 22, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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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

September 10, 2017August 30, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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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
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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

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
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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!

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: William Warfield

February 26, 2017February 26, 2017 Leontyne Price, Met, Opera, OPERA
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William Warfield was one of the great operatic basses – period.  He was also married to the legendary Leontyne Price. “…Warfield was a graduate

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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
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The Diva in a Turban turned ninety this week! There is no argument that she is one of the greatest voices this country has

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Sunday Morning Opera: National Opera Week

October 30, 2016October 29, 2016 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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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

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: Vissi d’arte

July 17, 2016July 16, 2016 CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Music, Opera, OPERA
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Maria Callas Renée Fleming Mirella Freni Kiri te Kanawa Joan Sutherland And – the best for last…

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I Understand Tosca

July 12, 2016July 11, 2016 Abuse, Art, Barihunks, Baritones, CRIME, CULTURE, FAITH, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes
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Like I told my cousin last night, I’m frantic.  I’m terribly upset about losing my home, when it is so very simple.  What has

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Willow Song

May 1, 2016April 29, 2016 Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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I rarely feature sopranos, but there are times when one must do what one must do.  The Willow Song, from Otello, by Verdi is

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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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