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• Best Opera Singers in the World Today – Female Persuasion

  

  As promised, here are the female artists that a discriminating, opera-loving group of Twitterers suggested as the best women performing today. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Best Opera Singers in the World Today – Male Persuasion

  

  I’m a capable researcher using electronic technology (not to mention, that I work for a College and have great resources at my disposal). Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Food for Thought . . .

  

  Did you know that some foods considered classic American cuisine you may have enjoyed in restaurants (or tried at home) were inspired by international opera... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2011 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, THEATRE & OPERA

• a Callas Remark: an Operatoonity Microtale

  

  March 6, 1853 Giuseppe Verdi: Premiere of La Traviata, in Venice, Italy. Maria Callas as Violetta in ‘La Traviata‘ On the anniversary of the premiere of La... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• COC Steps out with New York ‘Nightingale’

  

  COC's THE NIGHTINGALE at the Brooklyn Academy of Music / Photograph © 2011 Jack Vartoogian More than a year after premiering in November 2009, the Canadian Oper... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• an Opera Academy Training World-class Singers in My Backyard . . . Practically

  

  *This is an Operatoonity Encore Post which complements the North American opera theme this month. The Academy of Vocal Arts So, I have this delightful friend... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• North American Opera . . . the Answers

  

  I promised answers to yesterday’s quiz today, and here they are. True confessions time: I didn’t have to work very hard identifying them. One reader, John Gilks... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• North American Opera . . . A Quiz

  

  Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Texas March came in like a lamb today into the US Northeast where I live. And just as unobstrusively, Operatoonity’s editorial... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• A Bendel Bonnet, a Shakespeare Sonnet? No, Richard Strauss!

  

  Young Richard Strauss I just saw the AVA’s production of Arabella by Richard Strauss in the City of Brotherly Love–Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Sunday Best — Oscar Loves Opera!

  

  *This post was great fun to write last year on the day of the Academy Awards, and is applicable today. Hence, an Operatoonity Encore Post.Psssst. Wanna know a... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• No Time For Opera Snobs

  

  O, would that we could all spring from the head of Zeus, fully formed in battle armor, like the goddess Athena.  (No wonder Zeus had the mother of all... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Bari, Bari Good Baritones

  

  Walter Berry, D. Fischer-Dieskau, Hakan Hagegard, Sherrill Milnes, Hermann Prey, Bernd Weikl.  With the exception of Sherrill Milnes, the names of these great... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Opera Rules (for the Day)

  

  Don Giovanni, Verbier Festival Today, I learned that my contemporary novel with an opera backdrop (loosely mirroring Mozart’s Don Giovanni), advanced to the... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Do You Know ‘The World’s Best Way to Find Live Classical Music’?

  

  *In the last few days, several people I assumed knew about Bachtrack asked me all about it, so I thought an Operatoonity encore post was in order. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Extra! Extra! Hey, Look at the Headline!

  

  Historical news is being made. Opera news that is. While we wait for the bloom on the forsythia and for every opera lover’s favorite springtime divertissement... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Meet Bari ‘Andrew’ Stuckey

  

  I love when opera lovers recommend artists to be profiled on “Operatoonity.” Usually that means the performer has a following.Such is the case with the... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, Roles to Be Heard and Seen

  

  At the press conference last week to announce the Metropolitan Opera’s new season, I met someone from Philadelphia who has already reviewed the Opera Company... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• is Yours an Opera Weekend?

  

  This Sunday, I’m seeing Opera Company of Philadelphia‘s new production of Gounod‘s Romeo and Juliet, which sets the Capulets and the Montagues as major... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Met’s ‘Live in HD’ — Cash Cow Or Godsend?

  

  Anna Nebtrebko in Manon /Covent Garden Production photo by Bill CooperShould the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series The Met: Live in HD be considered a... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• King of the Baritones

  

  Titta RuffoTitta Ruffo was one of the greatest baritones of the 20th century. He had a resonant voice, magnificent power in the middle and upper registers, and ... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA