Opera
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Happy Birthday, Kathleen Battle! 1948
Join us, listening to the lyric and coloratura soprano, on Clubhouse, today, August 13, at 10:30pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/join/opera-blood-and-te/XZacnF3o/m2jRoGQD
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Even a long cigar will not outlast a Wagner
Just finished listening to Parsifal, Richard Wagner’s last opera. The cigar I celebrated with — the Salomones Royal from Davidoff — lasted three hours. The opera goes for 4:30 hours. A long double pleasure.
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“Parsifal” premiered on this day of 1882
ACT I Near the sanctuary of the Holy Grail, the old knight Gurnemanz and two sentries wake and perform their morning prayers, while other knights prepare a bath for their ailing ruler Amfortas, who suffers from an incurable wound. Suddenly, Kundry—a mysterious, ageless woman who serves as the Grail’s messenger—appears. She has brought medicine for…
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The Metropolitan Opera has generously extended their opera streaming one more week…
Tuesday, July 20Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s PagliacciStarring Tatiana Troyanos, Jean Kraft, Plácido Domingo, and Vern Shinall; Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, and Allan Monk, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 5, 1978. Wednesday, July 21Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de PerlesStarring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Nicolas Testé, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Production by Penny Woolcock. From…
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Love is Everything
Love is everything!Who can live without love?Love destroys… but no one dies until they have known it. Excerpt from“Elektra” Opera by Richard Strauss
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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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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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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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