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New York’s Opera Season Ends (I)

May 30, 2014 By Guy St. Clair

  Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center We New Yorkers are fortunate to have opera year-round, as some of the smaller opera companies – upon which we are going to depend more and more – perform during the June-September months. For the most part, though, we tend to attach our opera “season” to the dates of our …

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Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Cohn (Fred), Domingo (Placido), Metropolitan Opera Association, New York City Center, New York City Opera, Opera, Ross (Alex)

New York’s Opera Season Ends (II)

May 25, 2014 By Guy St. Clair

Back to the Met: I’ll let Mr. Tommasini describe the singing (splendid – no disagreement there!). I’ll share my thoughts about several wonderful highlights, including Nico Muhly’s “Two Boys,” a fresh and very modern spooky story set to a lovely score. Muhly writes in a wide-variety of “styles” and I’m especially taken with his choral …

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Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Bellini (Vincenzo), Brownlee (Lawrence), Camarena (Javier), Florez (Juan Diego), Metropolitan Opera Association, Muhly (Nico), Strauss (Richard), Sutherland (Joan)

Farewell to Dame Joan Sutherland

May 24, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

Many thanks to the Metropolitan Opera Guild for the beautiful program in memory of Dame Joan Sutherland, presented last Tuesday night (May 17, 2011). Since her death on October 10, 2010, there had been two memorial services, including a State Memorial Service on November 9, 2010 at the Sydney Opera House and a service held …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Bonynge (Richard), Horne (Marilyn), Metropolitan Opera Association, opera singers, Sutherland (Dame Joan)

Dame Joan Sutherland: Grieve, Heart, and Rejoice in Happy Memories

October 13, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

Dame Joan Sutherland (Credit: Noosa Federation of the Arts) Dame Joan has died, and many of us are very sad. Our lives were so enriched – made so beautiful and so much happier – by that glorious sound, and while none of us is surprised about the aging process, true fans keep wanting the inevitable …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Beautiful Singing, Bel Canto, Dame Joan Sutherland, Joan Sutherland, Metropolitan Opera Association, Opera, singing

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