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an unamplified voice

Lepage follies - Well, I certainly wasn't expecting this email: We’re writing to inform you, as a ticket buyer to Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, of an important change. T...
7 years ago
Boulezian

Salzburg Festival (4) - Saint François d’Assise, 23 August 2026 - Felsenreitschule Images: © SF/Monika Rittershaus The Angel – Lauranne Oliva Saint François – Philippe Sly The Leper – Sean Panikkar Brother Léon – Rus...
1 day ago
Church of Baseball

Major League Fail - About two weeks ago, MLB Advanced Media made an update to its At Bat app. In an instant thousands of people with Android devices lost the ability to liste...
8 years ago
Definitely the Opera

Popping in to say: - Find me on Substack. Here my debut missive: https://longplay.substack.com/p/do-women-exist Society, culture and the arts — so not only opera. And when oper...
5 years ago
From Beirut to Jupiter

The Medal Is Tarnished - I don't think there's anything that sums up American moral disconnect better than tearing up for guys who bring their dead friend's daughter and son to the...
6 months ago
Intermezzo

Opera Holland Park ticket offer - All remaining tickets for the first two performances of OHP's new Adriana Lecouvreur are reduced to £30 - roughly half price. The dates are Thursday 24 and...
12 years ago
Iron Tongue of Midnight

Apply to Luna Composition Labs - Luna Composition Lab T-shirt The letters LUNA within thumbnail, half, 3/4, and full moons Not credited on their web site but I will try to find out who de...
1 day ago
Likely Impossibilities

The Gig Economy Bride - Greetings, meine Damen und Herren, I appear among you today to convey my Smetana hot takes, which were simply too spicy for social media to handle. Trust t...
7 years ago
Opera Cake

Carmen Aldrich - Carmen at Chorégie d’Orange was TV live broadcast less than two weeks ago. Contrary to the Puccini operas or the dreaded Verismo repertoire, Carmen is alwa...
11 years ago
operaramblings

Austere Maria Stuarda - Ulrich Rasche’s production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, staged in the Großesfestspielhaus at the Salzburg Festival in 2025, is austere and interesting. As...
15 hours ago
parterre box

Some filth or dementia from Sanford - This Strauss is demented in the best way possible.
19 hours ago
Superconductor

In Memoriam: Paul J. Pelkonen - by Jessie Tannenbaum Paul J. Pelkonen April 12, 1973 – June 12, 2019 It is with great sadness that we announce that Paul Pelkonen died suddenly yesterday...
7 years ago
Von heute auf morgen

Getting Anna Bolena rolling - Musikverein, 3/1/2013 Anna Bolena | Edita Gruberova Giovanna Seymour | Sonia Ganassi Enrico VIII | Riccardo Zanellato Lord Percy | José Bros Smeton | Haga...
13 years ago

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