Exactly the kind of boy he had always wanted to be Exactly the kind of boy he had always wanted to be

UrbanArias’ recording of Paul’s Case is an antidote to the intellectual pretensions that regularly drag contemporary opera performance toward tediousness and boredom.

By February 09, 2019 at 11:03 AM
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Go away from my window Go away from my window

Hunger was the note of the night, a sentiment shared between the audience and Proving Up, a lean and hungry one-act telling a story of drought and desperation on the post-Civil War Western frontier.

By September 27, 2018 at 2:26 PM
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To each word a warbling note To each word a warbling note

“What fools these mortals be!” 

By August 01, 2016 at 10:44 AM
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Britten on the wind Britten on the wind

Ambiguity. That’s the theme of the operas of Benjamin Britten (ennobled as Baron Britten of Aldeburgh).

By November 26, 2013 at 1:38 PM
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