Tag: opera
group name: operalovers
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October 29, 2006 07:57 PM EST --
If you live in or near New York City, I would definitely recommend going to New York City Opera to see the classic Donizetti Italian Opera set in a modern 50's setting.
City opera is cursed, not being . . .
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March 01, 2006 09:48 PM EST --
Check out your public radio station for programming in April. The BBC is going to broadcast all 15 hours of the Wagner Ring Cycle, on April 17th. This is good. It took Wagner 28 . . .
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February 27, 2006 11:04 AM EST --
For music lovers out there who don't think they "care very much for opera" might find themselves re-structuring their aesthetic value system ...should they avail themselves of a DVD . . .
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February 22, 2006 05:26 PM EST --
To be a opera singer means years of study----I mean years of study. Grueling study, long sessions in front of the voice coach, and a mirror, daily hours spent in the practice rooms at college or . . .
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October 17, 2007 12:19 PM EDT --
I've been told the "critics" panned the performance of the classic combination of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci . . .
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August 27, 2006 12:10 AM EDT --
So far most of my reviews have dealt with opera in comedy form, or opera buffa.
Those are pleasant, and advisable for those of us getting used to all of that opera hoopla.
This is my first review of . . .
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August 06, 2006 11:34 PM EDT --
I am behind in my opera reviews. If anyone is interested, I'll post some more reviews , and photos too.
I can guess that if you like opera, you "clicked" on the opera group - albeit, . . .
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September 06, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
Luciano Pavarotti, the most widely popular singer in opera history, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 71.
The son of a baker and a cigarette maker, he was over six feet tall, sometimes 350 pounds. . . .
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February 28, 2008 10:48 AM EST --
When the Nazi "Third Reich" took power in 1930s Germany, it wasn't only books that burned and words that were lost.
As the Nazis marched toward the Holocaust, music too was suppressed. . . .
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