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Happy 76th birthday to mean, moody, mononymous Cher.
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The many faces of Perry Como
To give an idea of how well Perry Como was able to “assume” different vocal identities, here he is doing his mega #1 1953 hit, “Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes.”
The Multiverse of Morley
A Trove Thursday Mega-Post © featuring the wonderful American soprano Erin Morley in Orff’s Carmina Burana and Richard Strauss’s Brentano Lieder, plus extended live excerpts from Handel’s Orlando, Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots.
“I lost control”
Happy 74th birthday model, singer and actress Grace Jones.
Perry Como: a Postscript
In observation of the 110th birthday of Perry Como, May 18, 1912.
Resisting the recognizable
It was Matthew Jocelyn’s libretto, with its disorientingly deconstructive approach to its source text, that gave Brett Dean’s Hamlet its identity.
Room temperature
It’s maybe not a surprise that Carmen is neither a good vocal nor temperamental fit for Isabel Leonard.
The two faces of Karita
An evening with Finland’s most famous opera star.
Rachel, Rachel
It’s nice to see Sony Classical backing a serious operatic soprano and not some crossover refugee from Britain’s Got Talent or another syrupy Christmas album from the world’s reigning Heldentenor.
Your lifelong membership is free
Born on this day in 1931 actor Robert Morse.
“I sang before I could walk”
Born on this day in 1918 soprano Birgit Nilsson.
“Acting in the movies is just like ditch-digging”
Born on this day in 1909 actress Margaret Sullavan.
Songbird
Happy 86th birthday to soprano and actress Anna Maria Alberghetti.
The lady who dared
Born on this day in 1903 actress Billie Dove.
Hamlet
Brett Dean‘s operatic treatment of the Bard makes its Metropolitan Opera premiere.
Teresa Berganza 1933 – 2022
The beloved concert and opera singer died earlier today.
To Bea or not to Bea
Happy centennial to actress and activist Bea Arthur.
A deed without a name
Trove Thursday offers Ernst Bloch’s 1910 Macbeth featuring Inge Borkh and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni and Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas starring Thomas Allen with Christine Barbaux and Josephine Veasey as the women in his life.
“Be yourself; it’s a tough act to follow”
Born on this day in 1907 actress Katharine Hepburn.
Bohemian rhapsody
Tenor Yusif Eyvazov, who was scheduled to sing Rodolfo in the upcoming four performances of Puccini’s La bohème, is ill and has withdrawn.
Everything the traffic will allow
Born on this day in 1888 composer Irving Berlin.
Mainly in the plain
I wonder why many New Yorkers have been led to believe that the only Handel conductor in the world is Harry Bicket.