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
Sunday Morning Opera:Aida
Category: Leontyne Price
Sunday Morning Opera: Oh Holy Night
I loath Christmas music that is sung poorly and six weeks before Christmas. Today is acceptable. It is December 23. And… We
Sunday Morning Opera: Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was born on 22 December 1858. It’s a good excuse for a little baritone festival – or…
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: A Richard Tucker Gala
Sunday Morning Opera: Vissi d’arte
American Voices About America
One of the beautiful things about opera is the fact that American singers have a tendency to belt out some incredible songs about this
Good Friday
Sunday Morning Opera – Vissi d´arte Smackdown
Sunday Morning Opera: The Greatest Voice Ever Produced in Mississippi
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
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: The Wild West
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!
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: 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
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Sunday Morning Opera: William Warfield
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
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
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
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Sunday Morning Opera: Vissi d’arte
Maria Callas Renée Fleming Mirella Freni Kiri te Kanawa Joan Sutherland And – the best for last…
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I Understand Tosca
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
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
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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