All Entries Tagged With: "opera"
Clint Eastwood: Cowboy, Cop, Composer
From the Bureau of Breaking News That Everyone Probably Knows Already:
Clint Eastwood composes the scores for some of his films. Who knew?
According to teh intertubes, Eastwood began writing music for his own films as early as 1980, penning songs for Bronco Billy, City Heat and Heartbreak Ridge. In 1992, he wrote the main [...]
Summer iTunes Meme
Every day you chase the carrot and are about 99% certain you’ll never get to cut it into sticks and serve it along side a tuna melt and some 5-Alive. Today, fate has intervened and granted Miss Mussel a small taste of success.
Ladies and gents, boys and girls, music nerds of all genres–
The Omniscient [...]
All The Great Operas In 10 Minutes
Courtesy of Philly Markowitz at the CBC Radio 2 blog:
All The Great Operas in 10 Minutes by Kim Thompson
Tuesday Links
James Levine, 65, will be starting the 2008/09 season minus a kidney and the cyst that has been causing “pressure and discomfort”.. The six week recovery means Levine will have to miss the Elliot Carter 100th birthday celebrations at Tanglewood, something he was, “looking forward to more than I could say.” [AP | Boston [...]
I went to the opera once and didn’t like it.
Did you stop going to the movies after seeing one you didn’t like?
More brilliantly no-nonsense answers to common whinges at the Queensland Opera.
Alexander Neef New COC Director
The Canadian Opera Company have been looking for a new general director since the much-loved Richard Bradshaw died unexpectedly in August 2007. This morning, the COC announced that German-born Alexander Neef, currently the casting director at the Opera Nationale de Paris, has accepted the post.
Neef is just 34 years old but according to [...]
This Just In
Andrea Bocelli tells the Times, “I sold myself short for fame and fortune.”
In other news: eggs break when you drop them.
Note to Mr Bocelli: In case you weren’t sure, here’s how it happened.
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