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Sunday Morning Opera: Gerald Finley

February 3, 2019February 2, 2019 Art, Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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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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Happy Birthday Sherrill Milnes

January 10, 2019January 5, 2019 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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A birthday recital from the greatest voice this nation has ever produced, and the greatest baritone in the history of opera.

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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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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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Sunday Morning Opera: A Smackdown

November 25, 2018November 24, 2018 Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA
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Sunday Morning Opera: Remember

November 18, 2018November 17, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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It will be a year on Thanksgiving day.  We remember it for the loss of three critically important people. John F. Kennedy C. S.

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Sunday Morning Opera: Don Giovanni

October 28, 2018October 27, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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My obsessive love affair with opera began on the afternoon of May 6, 1978 when Sherrill Milnes walked onto the stage in Atlanta, where

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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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Funny How the World Is

October 19, 2018October 18, 2018 Atlanta Braves, Barihunks, BASEBALL, Boston Red Sox, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, HISTORY, History of the Game, Met, MLB Hall of Fame, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Ted Williams
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I was going to bombast about something, but then I realized I just didn’t want to be that way as I write this, in

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Sunday Morning Opera: Pavarotti

October 14, 2018October 13, 2018 CULTURE, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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The Great Luciano would have been 83 on October 12.  We have another operatic birthday on October 16.  I can’t do it.  Just thinking

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Sunday Morning Opera: Montserrat Caballé

October 7, 2018October 6, 2018 CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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We’ve lost another of the all-time greats.  Montserrat Caballé, 12 April 1933 – 6 October 2018, has died in her beloved Barcelona.  Her bel

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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: It’s That Time of Year

September 23, 2018September 22, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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If you are an opera freak like I am, tomorrow is Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Fourth of July, and a birthday all wrapped up

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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: Shenandoah Smackdown

September 9, 2018September 8, 2018 Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Thomas Hampson
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Sunday Morning Opera: Richard Tucker

August 26, 2018August 25, 2018 CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill
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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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Sunday Morning Opera: Crazy Relatives

August 12, 2018August 11, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Luciano Pavarotti, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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Beverly Sills (Lucia) Patricia Kern (Alisa) Carlo Bergonzi (Edgardo) Piero Cappuccilli (Enrico) Justino Diaz (Raimondo) Adolf Dallapozza (Arturo) Joan Sutherland (Lucia) Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo)

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Sunday Morning Opera: My Very Favorite Aria Smackdown

August 5, 2018August 4, 2018 Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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This is the key to my heart. I love this piece of music. On Saturday, May 6, 1978 in Atlanta, with the Metropolitan Opera

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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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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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Sunday Morning Opera: The Handsome Baritone

July 1, 2018June 24, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Thomas Hampson
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Thomas Hampson had a birthday on June 28. The man should be sainted for his Cole Porter! The man’s greatest contribution is to American

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Tosca, I Need Tosca

June 24, 2018June 23, 2018 Baritones, CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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It’s been a rough week.

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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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