Opera
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La Fanciulla del West (Puccini), on Clubhouse.
Today, at 9:45 pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/join/opera-blood-and-te/nVKgDzAQ/M8v83b7P
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“Madame Butterfly”
Join us in listening to a performance of Madame Butterfly, from Puccini. Tonight, at 9pm EST. https://www.clubhouse.com/join/opera-blood-and-te/4EAFkcoL/PG2KWpGp
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Happy Birthday, Eric Owens! (1970)
Join us to listen on Clubhouse — TODAY, Sunday July 11, at 9:30pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/join/opera-blood-and-te/eRQiUEr7/PAaYzA87
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What are operas written for?
(Servants)That was a fine to-do! With everybody shouting at once.The Italian girl! She has eaten all the cake!Why did the director go on like that?I don’t get it!Something about reforming the theater before he dies.Next thing, they will be putting servants in their operas.The whole world is going crazy.Now everyone is an actor.But that does…
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This week’s opera streamings from the Metropolitan Opera
Pride Week (#67) Free HD streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day. Monday, June 21Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating AngelStarring Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, Frédéric Antoun, David…
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Earthly Paradise, the Art of Song Singing
On June 21 of 1868 was the world premiere of “Die Meistersänger von Nürnberg”. Join us on Clubhouse to celebrate four hours in the mastery of song singing, as Richard Wagner understood it in word and sound. https://www.clubhouse.com/event/PN6GzDJR
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There is new Musicality on Clubhouse!
https://www.clubhouse.com/join/musicality/bAPsGtNw/P0OKBy3X Join us!
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Oedipus Rex, in Celebration of the birth of Igor Stravinsky — 1882
Listen in, join us on Clubhouse, today, at 5pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/join/opera-blood-and-te/h1eX25Ql/mg6KnwpB
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Special Invitation to join “Opera, Blood, and Tears”
With the following link, you may join the club Opera, Blood, and Tears, on Clubhouse. https://www.clubhouse.com/join/opera-blood-and-te/3LQX1SRP/P9zneQ7O
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“Daphne” and “Elektra” — Happy Birthday, Richard Strauss!
Join us on June 11, at 12 midday, EST, listening to two of his operas. https://www.clubhouse.com/event/P9zneQ7O
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Tristan and Isolde premiered June 10 1865
To celebrate this masterpiece (156 years after it premiered), I will be sharing a couple of productions on Clubhouse — June 10 2021 at 1pm EST. https://www.clubhouse.com/join/opera-blood-and-te/ey3e6Z01/P0YNYdoX
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In Memory of Shirley Verrett — May 31 1931 / an Event
Shirley Verrett — the Intimate Black Callas, is a celebration of the unique Diva who was born ninety years ago today. Join a live conversation with her daughter, Francesca LoMonaco, and her nephew, Shaman Durek, as we share memories of one soul who transcended cultural barriers with her talent. https://www.clubhouse.com/join/opera-blood-and-te/IvadYlYj/myb0L0RO
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The Soul is unbound
Ever since we have been traveling this globe, our exposure to the exotic or merely to the other (individual, culture, tradition, belief), has left us impressed, influenced, at least touched. Henry F. Gilbert was born 1868 in Somerville, a town in the Boston metropolitan area where I lived in the mid 1980s. He attended the…
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Celebrating the life of Shirley Verrett
Shirley Verrett was born in New Orleans on the 31st of May in 1931. Her operatic debut was 1957 in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. Not the best choice, considering her family practiced Seventh-Day Adventism, and was not in agreement with her pursuing an opera career. In 1968 she made her New York Metropolitan…
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