I'm probably going to the December 12 performance of Romeo & Juliet! One of my friends teaches an opera class at a local adult school. They focus on one opera...
Hi, I can't give much advice about dresses. But you can wear black any night of the week in New York. And you probably wouldn't want to wear a ballgown. John...
IMHO, you can wear anything you like to the opera. I'm sure that at galas and special events, there are ball gowns and tuxedos. However, there are few in...
Of course you could always behave like the Trekkies going to StarTrek conventions and dress as Juliette! This means that you have to look and dress like a 14...
Journal update posted today - he's sick with viral laryngitis. Sounds totally unpleasant. I hope he gets better soon and that it doesn't do anything to his...
I think laryngitis is a very common ailment in the singing world. I'm sure he'll recover just fine, but it's always a little scary and never fun. I hope he...
Hmm, I'll have to see what 14 year old girls are wearing these days, lol! I might be better off in a Star Trek uniform, like one of those off-the-shoulder...
Yes, it is a common ailment wherever there are humans. Sometimes is is bacterial, sometimes viral, sometimes an allergy, and sometimes it can be caused by...
Ha ha! Thanks for thinking of me, Elizabeth -- and I didn't even get to keep the free umbrella I got at the Pirates game because it was too big to fit in my...
Hi Patrick, Well, I'm glad you made the best of it and you enjoyed Billy Budd regardless. I haven't heard of David Adam Moore. It's been a while since I have ...
Hi Elizabeth, I don't always make it to the San Francisco artist-training operas either, mostly because they usually have them at a theater that is very...
WFMT is rebroadcasting the opening nights at the Lyric. The station is linked to a ton of other stations. Here is a list of radio stations, alphabetical by...
Ok, the station near me is rebroadcasting it next week, the 30th. I can swear that they said the 23rd when I heard them announce it on the air. So check your...
-In New York that was not what was broadcast on the 23rd -- it was IL TROVATORE with a really ravishing Sandra Radvanovsky. My current favorite Verdi singer. ...
I happened to be reading the NY Times yesterday (Thursday July 5) and came across this paragraph, almost at the very end of Alan Riding's article on the...
I just wanted to say how sad I am about all the losses the opera world has faced recently. Beverly Sills: One of my favorite sopranos of all time. She was ...
Beverly Sills and Jerry Hadley are certainly two of the most distinguished artists America has produced in the last half-century. Not to take anything away...
There is a short article about Nathan Gunn at Playbill Arts. http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/6798.html The new CD is listed at amazon.com, with a...
I thought it was great! Nathan was great - he looked very relaxed. At first I was annoyed b/c I thought they cut him off to feature Underdog, but they went...
... Whoa! If Susan doesn't like insipid questions, The Fans should meet her in Lincoln Center Plaza and, after alerting Homeland Security, help her burn her...