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something to take our minds off everything for a bit:
Opera Philadelphia’s La traviata, featuring Lisette Oropesa’s debut as Violetta Valéry, is FREE now through the 26th!
La traviata is FREE, June 24–26. Part of the Freedays on Fridays series.
A New Group for Fans of John Relyea
A New Group for Fans of John Relyea
My friend Gabriela and I have long thought that he deserved one, so why not create it ourselves? The incomparable Canadian bass John Relyea has been a favorite of ours for years. I recall first hearing his voice on the radio, and wondering: “Who is that?” Along with our dear friend and group admin extraordinaire S. Blake Duncan, we now have the beginnings of a fan group, which I will link to here.
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Who Doesn’t Like Free Opera?
Yes. Legitimately free opera. You don’t have to sign up for anything. You don’t have to download anything. You just click the button to watch the opera, and then you watch the opera! It’s like magic!
During the pandemic, the Met Opera in New York is streaming a different opera every night. These are pre-recorded performances that were done live. Each opera is available from 7:30 PM Eastern time in the United States until 6:30 PM Eastern time the following day. You can watch at any time during that twenty-three-hour window.
Tonight (04/06/2020) is Verdi’s Aida, and there are a lot of great shows coming up. See the links below.
Watch Here: https://www.metopera.org/
Weekly Schedule: https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/
The metropolitan Opera ( New York)
Will put online freely for 20 hours every day a different show.
https://www.metopera.org/
Paris Opéra :
https://www.operadeparis.fr/
1 show free online every 6 days.
Today,Carmen.At 7.30 pmEST,La Boheme
On Jonas' "L'Opéra," and Massenet's "Le Cid"
On Jonas’ “L’Opéra,” and Massenet’s “Le Cid”
Poster of Massenet’s “Le Cid,” also featured in “L’Opéra”
I have been listening rather obsessively to Jonas’ most recent album of French repertoire, L’Opéra. (That is, when I’m not obsessively relistening to passages from Don Carlos!) One can see and sample, at the previous link, the arias included in this album, from Gounod to…
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New delights, sweet pain: a week with Così fan tutte
New delights, sweet pain: a week with Così fan tutte
It was a blog post on Mozart’s Così fan tutte that finally inspired me to try seeing a production of it. (Yay for opera enablers!! Thank you Blake!!) But I didn’t stop at one. In about a week’s time, or just a little over, I’ve seen three different recordings of this extraordinarily beautiful opera–usually in time snatched far too late at night for me–and the glorious music has been in my head…
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