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The Birth of a Website
Now that my dream job has come to an end with the final issue of OPERA NEWS, the World Wide Web seems like a wondrous land of opportunity for a person in search of new… Read more
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Singing from the Soul: a Tribute to Sir Donald McIntyre
McIntyre was one of those artists whose characterizations were so right that one never wanted to watch anyone else in one of his roles. Once seen, he couldn’t be replaced. Read more
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Make America Merciful Again
Deep down, we are surely kinder-hearted than to ignore the loss of a precious life and the pain of a grieving family while we politicize a human tragedy. Read more
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When Ya Gotta Glow….
For me, lightning bugs provide an instant mode of time travel back to the very best days of my childhood, when I believed in everything and never doubted that the best things in life were… Read more
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Musical Echoes for Father’s Day
My favorite radio station, WQXR, spent much of today playing listeners’ requests for music that was in some way connected with their fathers. It was rather a sweet idea, even if it yielded a lot… Read more
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The Lavender Season
Best of all, for their wafting fragrance as well as their stately beauty, are the delicately, well, lilac lilacs and the classic irises with several subtle hues blended into one glorious effect and a scent… Read more
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Great Queens in Story and Song
Before women’s history month is over, I thought it would be fun to consider a couple of women who shattered the glass ceiling in spectacular fashion long before women’s rights were even a thing. Cleopatra,… Read more
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Celestial Voice: Roberta Alexander
Though she felt some initial pangs at giving up the dream of singing dramatic Verdi and Puccini roles, she found her niche as one of the most luminous and elegant light-lyric sopranos of her time. Read more
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The Food of Love
The great thing about romance is that enjoying it vicariously can be almost as enchanting as actually being in love…. Read more
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Feliz cumpleaños, Plácido
The difference between a performer and an artist is that a performer merely acts out his role, while an artist lives it and feels it in the marrow of his bones. Today is the birthday… Read more
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Magic Dragons
The world has lost a lot of important people in the past year (not least among them my mother) — people representative of a generation that took responsibility, modeled grace under pressure and faced challenges,… Read more
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I’m Louise, an editor and writer on the arts, with a particular interest in opera. I’m also a foodie, a cat-lover, a lifelong Episcopalian and a proud bleeding-heart liberal. All of those things will no doubt make their way into my blog, which will be dedicated to my random reflections on life.
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