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CDA: Mirella Freni
The great Italian soprano, the last of her kind. Really, is there anyone else from her generation still around? She had a long,...
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Feb 10, 20203 min read
Ryan on the Runway: PR18, ep 9
Top seven! Wow, we’re closing in on the big finish. The challenge: reinvent the tuxedo in a modern, fresh way. Christian said that the...
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Feb 9, 20201 min read
CDA: Orson Bean and Robert Conrad
A double header! First, the adorable Orson Bean. Here's a clip from his extraordinary performance in *Being John Malkovich*: And Robert...
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Feb 8, 20202 min read
*Grand Horizons,* 2/5/20
I saw *Grand Horizons* on Broadway on 2/5/20. It's a new play by Bess Wohl about a couple who's recently celebrated their 50th...
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Feb 7, 20201 min read
Fabulous Friday: Mystery Guest, Kirk Douglas
My website provider is being fussy today and not letting me dump in the video, so I'll paste in the link below. He comes in at 16:00....
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Feb 6, 20201 min read
CDA: Kirk Douglas
Oh, the marvelous Kirk Douglas. 103! Pretty impressive. I read in his NY Times obit that he was good friends with Burt Lancaster,...
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Feb 5, 20201 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 2/5/20
I'm devoting the month of February to art songs and starting with the undisputed master of the genre, Franz Schubert. I've chosen two...
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Feb 4, 20203 min read
*Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice,* 2/1/20
I saw *Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice* at the New Group (off Broadway) on 2/1/20. It's a brand new musical adaptation of the...
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Feb 3, 20202 min read
Ryan on the Runway: PR18, ep 8
It was hard to see Victoria being so down on herself. I know that they’re all in a pressure cooker and everything is amped up to an 11...
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Feb 2, 20204 min read
Blythely Oratonio performance, 1/30/20
I saw Stephanie Blythe as Blythely Oratonio at the American Songbook series on 1/30/20. Blythe is an A-list opera singer, a mezzo with a...
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Jan 31, 20201 min read
Fabulous Friday: "MacArthur Park"
I'm closing out our Jimmy Webb tribute with one of his most famous (I won't say "most beloved") songs, "MacArthur Park." Who the hell...
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Jan 30, 20201 min read
CDA: Kobe Bryant
I'm not a basketball fan - - I'm not a fan of any sport actually, unless you see opera or dance as a sport (and maybe you should). I was...
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Jan 29, 20201 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 1/29/20
I'm ending the Hitchcock tribute with the greatest diva / mensch pair in the Hitchcock canon, Mrs. Danvers and the New Bride (or whatever...
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Jan 27, 20202 min read
*Wozzeck,* 1/22/20
Barbara and I saw *Wozzeck* at the Met on 1/22/20. I love this opera, it's a masterpiece by Alban Berg from 1925 about a soldier going...
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Jan 26, 20202 min read
Ryan on the Runway: PR18, ep 7
Anyone heard of Ashley Longshore? She’s allegedly the new Andy Warhol. Mm kay! Whoever she is, I love her energy and her work. The...
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Jan 25, 20202 min read
*Rev 23,* 1/18/20
I saw *Rev 23* at the Prototype Festival on 1/18/20. It’s a new opera with music by Juilan Wachner and a libretto by Cerise Lim Jacbs. It...
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Jan 24, 20201 min read
Fabulous Friday: "Up, Up, and Away"
I didn't know until recently that "Up, Up, and Away" (thank you, serial comma) was a Jimmy Webb song. Of course I'm starting with the...
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Jan 23, 20201 min read
CDA: Terry Jones
Beloved Pythonian Terry Jones died the other day. I had hoped to post the "Penguin on the Telly" sketch, but YouTube only has an audio...
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Jan 22, 20201 min read
Diva / mensch pair for 1/22/20
Leo G. Carroll is back at it again this week - - last week we had his first appearance in a Hitchcock movie, *Rebecca.* Today we have...
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Jan 21, 20203 min read
*Porgy and Bess,* 1/15/20
Barbara, Leith, Jere, Dale, Richard, and I saw *Porgy and Bess* at the Met on 1/15/20. This was a new production, the Met hadn't done...
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10 hours ago12 min read
*Ladies' Voices,* thirty years later
Today is the 30th birthday of my opera Ladies' Voices. I think of it as my Opus One. I wrote about Ladies' Voices in the context of a...
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4 days ago1 min read
Fabulous Friday: Suzanne Charny
Last week I sent out the big dance sequence from the movie of Sweet Charity. The lead female dancer was Suzanne Charny. She was damn...
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