Opera took center stage on the final weekend of the Philadelphia Orchestra season.
Julia Bullock seems to fission herself multiple times over during the course of her newest, widely ranging recital program.
On this day in 1955 contralto Marian Anderson made her historic Metropolitan Opera debut.
After the break the ladies stepped up their game so much that it elevated the night into legendary status: definitely one for the books!
On this day in 1955 contralto Marian Anderson made her historic Metropolitan Opera debut.
Kennedy Center could not have predicted just how aptly Saturday evening’s rescheduled recital of 2020 Marian Anderson Award winner, baritone Will Liverman, would respond to the moment.
It struck me that Jamie Barton’s voice is not dissimilar to a Henry Moore sculpture: grand and monumental but never brash or ostentatious; eccentric and offbeat but always graceful and tastefully molded.
Weekends at Aura Bar on 53rd and Ninth are typically big money makers for the morons who run the place. Jonjon and Yoni.
Harry Lawrence Freeman’s Voodoo, begun sometime before 1914, was completed and first heard on radio in May, 1928, then staged on Broadway later that year—seven years before Porgy and Bess, please note.
I am certain that we Parterrians are a very literate, even literary, group.
Sony Classical, in association with The Metropolitan Opera, has begun issuing on CD a number of historic Met broadcasts, newly remastered. The first I received for review was the December 10, 1955 broadcast of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, perhaps most notable for the Ulrica of Marian Anderson, who earlier that year made her debut…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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