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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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The Irish Tenor
The sound this honorary Irishman’s soul longs for on St. Patrick’s Day is the inimitable, ineffable, indelible voice of John McCormack. Read more
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Women’s History Month: A Soldier’s Life
Though she lived a hardscrabble existence her whole life long, Sampson is proof positive that women don’t have to be confined to any one lifestyle or identity. Read more
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Women’s History in the Making: Sailing into the Record Books
What better time than Women’s History Month for a woman to make history, as Cole Brauer did when she became the first woman to race a sailboat solo and non-stop around the world? And how… Read more
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And the winner is….
The Academy Awards aren’t really about the movies for me. To begin with, I never manage to see all the pictures that are in the running, so I can’t get fully invested in whether my… Read more
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Black Voices Matter: The Spirituals
Black History Month is over, but my ears are still ringing with the sound of the great Black voices that have enriched our American musical heritage. In researching those voices, I was struck by how… Read more
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La Forza della Davidsen
If you are a lover of the human voice — or even if you’re not yet a lover of the human voice but would like to become one — run, don’t walk, to the Metropolitan… Read more
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Black Voices Matter, Pt. 4: The Lower Echelons
The first black man to sing a leading role on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera was baritone Robert McFerrin. (Yes, folks, he is related to the Bobby McFerrin of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy Fame”… Read more
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Black Voices Matter, Pt. 3: The Tenors
One of my favorite near-miss stories is that, shortly after my twin sister and I were born, my parents went shopping for a new (larger) apartment and looked at one that was right upstairs, or… Read more
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Black Voices Matter, Pt. 2 1/2: More Mezzos
Hilda Harris, a lyric mezzo from Warrenton, North Carolina, began her career as a recording-studio backup singer for the likes of Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin and Roberta Flack and juggled classical voice lessons with appearances… Read more
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Black Voices Matter: Part 2
Marian Anderson was an American icon, awarded the American Medal of Freedom by Lyndon Johnson and the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan. She will be forever known for her role in the nation’s… 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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