Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen: A Guide to 100 Years of Films, DVDs, and Videocassettes Featuring Operas, Opera Singers, and Operettas
Gertsamtkunstwerk (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Well, not 'official', obviously, seeing as though this was advertised only on Opera-L, this blog, one small, elite private news group, and my Twitter and Facebook accounts. The raw statistics: 70 people voted for 98 singers, of whom 49 got...
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | yesterday
Actor Christopher Knight (”The Brady Bunch”) is 52. Opera singer Joan Sutherland is 83. Actor Barry Newman is 71. Singer Johnny Rivers is 67. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 66. Singer Nick Gilder is 58. Guitarist Greg Tribbett of Mudvayne is 41. Actor Jeremy London (”Party of Five”) is 37. Actor Jason London (”The Rage: Carrie Two”) [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Opera singer Joan Sutherland is 83. Singer Johnny Rivers is 67. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 66. Singer Nick Gilder is 58. Actor Christopher Knight (The Brady Bunch) is 52. Actors Jeremy London (Party of Five) and Jason London (Dazed and Confused) are 37. Actress Yunjin Kim (Lost) is 36. Guitarist Zach Myers of Shinedown is 26.
Waggish (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dinesen was Danish, moved to Africa for a spell, and, under a pseudonym, wrote fiction in English that evokes German Romanticism more than any English precedent. Dinesen admitted the willfully anachronistic quality of her writing, and yet it is still surprising just how greatly her work involves characters who are pretending to an ideal, and how they strive after a Romantic ideal analogously to how...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Review: Chris Botti (Cadogan Hall, Tuesday November 3rd by Frank Griffith) Chelsea Bridge. American trumpeter, Chris Botti, bridges Chelsea and Jazz at Cadogan Hall on 3 November. Botti's show was ticking all the right boxes. He was bringing an untypical jazz audience to a jazz-influenced programme; he was delivering plenty of lively improvisation to familiar melodies and settings. His wonderfully...
backyard disciples and one mean deus ex machina (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
where student discounts and cheap tickets at the opera are made available to people of ANY age. Montreal, how can I afford your "culture"? You need to give students a break. Even 15% off. And while I'm here, come on, stop spending your money on such bad advertising. I'm sick to death of those wide angled face shots. Opera singers were never meant to be seen that close up. They can't act "through"...
Victoria Beckham Style (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The Giral dress from Victoria's sophomore collection is by far the most popular and worn design. It comes in a choice of three colors - black, gray, and a lovely violet. The violet color has been worn the most and made it's debut on the designer herself in August at the American Idol auditions. Opera singer Katherine Jenkins was next to wear it to the GQ awards in London on September 8th. Two weeks...
HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
If you've dreamed of living in a New York penthouse but only ever get as far as flipping through the ads in the Times real estate section, you might now be closer to living your dream thanks to the Buckingham Hotel . Sitting atop the small boutique hotel near Carnegie Hall is The Martinelli Penthouse , which was once home to opera singer Giovanni Martinelli when he was performing at the Met, and also...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Rodney Charman Yaargh, the frothing 17,000 square foot vortex at Third Avenue and 40th Street has swallowed up many an ambitious restaurant, and even left jaunty Jeffrey Chodorow with nothing but an ivory stump for a leg. Some say that spot on the map is cursed by a foul wind, and no one's been fool enough to set sail for it in years, ever since that monomaniacal Captain Chodorow lost his leaky Wild...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The controversial opera singer on her split from fellow star Roberto Alagna and her return to London.
Unusual Historicals (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
By Carrie Lofty While most people know that the United States has had two presidents named Roosevelt, very few can identify how they were related. "Roosevelt" means "Rose of the Fields" in Dutch. The first Roosevelt, a Dutchman named Claes van Rosevelt, arrived in Nieuw Amsterdam in the middle of the 17th century. He bought a twenty-acre farm in mid-town Manhattan, including the...
The Fly Fishing Rabbi (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Florence Foster Jenkins was an operatic singer who performed in New York City for decades, singing her last show at Carnegie Hall in 1944. Mrs. Jenkins portrayed herself as a legitimate opera singer yet she had little sense of pitch and could not sustain a note. People came to her concerts not to appreciate her music, but to laugh at her. They called her “The Diva of Din.” What struck...
British National Party (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Birmingham is to host the finale of an international competition to find the best white opera singer in the Commonwealth.
Vancouver Opera Blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
An active tenor with Vancouver Opera Chorus, John Arsenault has appeared in minor roles in Salome and Fidelio . John recently turned heads as Pinkerton in Vancouver Island Opera's production of Madame Butterfly . JOhn will help kick off the season with his role of Flavio, a centurian, in Vancouver Opera's Norma . Guilty musical pleasure? I love lots of different music, and I don’t believe in...
Green Integer Blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Ciacosa (libretto), based on a play by Victorien Sardou, Giacomo Puccini (music) Tosca / premiere at Teatro Costanzi, Rome, January 14, 1900 / the production I saw was from The Metropolitan Opera's HD production of October 10, 2009 (the encore production I witnessed was on October 29, 2009) By coincidence, soon after seeing a filmed version of Puccini's La Bohème (see...
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