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Opera - We love singing

Katia Arellano / Ricardo Ramirez

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Music, and more particularly singing is always with us. A certain day we may find ourselves moody and with a melody from La forza del destino playing over and over again in our head. Or maybe we feel like a superhero as we've doing great at work and then we feel like Calaf solving the 3 riddles that Turandot has proposed. First, we would like to build a place where we can talk about our passion for singing in a positive way. There is already too much of those toxic places where we criticize ...
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Building a Library: a guide to the best recordings of the greatest classical music. Each week an expert and enthusiast brings along a wide range of recordings of a well-known piece. They explore the music and the different ways of performing it, ending with a recommendation for your library
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An exciting new podcast by Marc Eliot Stein of Literary Kicks. Why is opera relevant today? This sometimes-lost art form hides a fascinating, vibrant world. In our first episode, we discuss whether Verdi's Otello is better than Shakespeare's Othello, whether Othello had PTSD, and what it means that Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro is an Italian opera by a German Austrian and a Venetian Jew based on a French play that takes place in Spain. Welcome to the first episode of Lost Music: Exploring Lite ...
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The Met: In Focus

The Metropolitan Opera

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In Focus, a new podcast series from the Metropolitan Opera, introduces audience members to the operatic masterpieces presented in the company’s award-winning Live in HD cinema transmissions. Hosted by Met radio commentator and staff writer William Berger, In Focus provides historical context about the works and their creators, as well as insightful commentary about the drama and the music, accompanied by excerpts from past Met performances. For more information and a Live in HD schedule, vis ...
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Opera for Everyone is a radio show and podcast that makes opera understandable, accessible, and enjoyable for all. Pat Wright hosts the show, inviting guest co-hosts to participate in the mission she and Keely Herron developed after lively discussions of operas they had enjoyed seeing together. Music soars. Epiphanies abound. Hilarity ensues. The show airs Sundays from 9.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. on 89.1 KHOL in Jackson, Wyoming. Cover artwork by illustrator Rosie Brooks (www.rosiebrooks.com)
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He Sang/She Sang is a new podcast from WQXR for the opera-curious and opera superfans who want to know what all those big voices are really singing about. The podcast follows the radio broadcast season of the Metropolitan Opera with a weekly roundtable chat that discusses the plots, characters, music, productions, social significance and great performances of that week's opera. Following the Met's radio broadcast season, He Sang/She Sang will dive into the new productions of Wagner’s Tristan ...
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The Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, from PRI, is a smart and surprising guide to what's happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Kurt introduces the people who are creating and shaping our culture. Life is busy – so let Studio 360 steer you to the must-see movie this weekend, the next book for your nightstand, or the song that will change your life. Produced in association with Slate.
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Operina is an opera podcast for kids hosted by soprano Jessica Cambio. It features children from around the world as weekly guests, free to speak in their own language, and it provides tips, language learning, quizzes, and music education about opera and classical music.
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Key Change: A COC Podcast

Canadian Opera Company

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Key Change is the COC’s new podcast, offering a fresh take on today's opera issues. Co-hosted by classical singer and culture critic Robyn Grant-Moran, a member of the COC’s Circle of Artists, alongside COC Director/Dramaturg-in-Residence Julie McIsaac, the first season of bi-weekly episodes explores the operagoing experience from a variety of perspectives, with special guests from the opera field and beyond.
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Puccini-Manon-Lescaut-Intermezzo-Danish-National-Symphony-Orchestra-Live.mp3 No, it’s not a glitch with your device and you’re not having some kind of Bill Murray-esque Groundhog Day experience. We’re doing another intermezzo, from the same compilation album as last week’s. I’m not us…
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We invite you to take singing classes pursuing your own goals. No matter your level, the country you reside or your age. The importante piece is to take care of the instrument you were born with. If you or somebody you know would like to start this journey with Katia, here's the link: Extras | Operaen1P (buymeacoffee.com) Invite to join us https://…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Belle.mp3 Any musician famous enough to amass a large fan base inevitably amasses some haters. If it’s not for their music, it might be their look, their politics, or their personas. When Jack Johnson’s fame peaked in the mid-2000s, he had plenty of hatred aimed his way, and I never f…
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Is information provided by ChatGPT 3.5 worth reading it if I wanted to learn more about a given opera composer? In the quest of answering it, this series will ask ChatGPT to provide info that when scarce, vague, just a platitude or simply wrong, new questions will be asked to guide the IA to provide more relevant information. Hope this technology d…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/A-Mirror.mp3 One of my kids’ favourite things to do is to watch videos of themselves as babies and toddlers. They love seeing how they moved, talked, interacted with each other. It always feels very wholesome when we sit together and do this, and it often makes me wonder about the eff…
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Aprile Millo | Eugenie Grunewald | Megan Monaghan | Jayoung Yoon | Aida Baligh | Kimiko Hata | Gerard Powers | Stephen Gaertner | Daniel Lee | Mark Womack | Anthony Pulgram | Young-Bok Kim | Stephen Kirchgraber | Luis Emilio Cabrera Alfredo Silipigni | Cantori New York Chorus | Teatro Grattacielo Orchestra | Alice Tully Hall | 12 November 2005 | In…
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Maria Callas, one of the greatest artist of the past 100 years will be a recurring subject starting December 2023 to celebrate the well known "La Divina". Callas is very often associated to bel canto roles and most of her works in French are unknown to most people. It is true that her later roles in this language are part of the final part of her c…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Hold-On-Magnolia-Demo.mp3 This week’s song was recommended by a reader. Thanks, Mia! Do you ever look at an old photo of yourself and wonder when that version of you became the current version of you? You can see that you look younger in the photo. Shockingly younger. But when, precis…
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This is not a content episode. We are sharing the latest changes and inviting all Opera lovers to interact with us via the Buy me a Coffee page that we have and had never used, but that is changing now. Please stop by as lots of posts are coming as well as the Membership program. Invite to join us https://www.buymeacoffee.com/operaen1p Support the …
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Where passion joins with music and poetry we find opera. In this sweet spot, we also find What We Need Is Here, the most recent project by accomplished musician and singer, Lisa Reagan. Lisa joins us to talk about creating an album of songs for classic poems that have been meaningful to her life. Lisa Reagan spent twenty years singing with the Wash…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CAVALLERIA-RUSTICANA-MASCAGNI-Intermezzo-KARAJAN.mp3 Generally speaking, I’m not really into opera. The last time I featured anything from an opera was seven years ago, and even that was closer to baroque than what is typically considered opera. Opera – and by that I mean 19th Century…
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Is information provided by ChatGPT 3.5 worth reading it if I wanted to learn more about a given opera composer? In the quest of answering it, this series will ask ChatGPT to provide info that when scarce, vague, just a platitude or simply wrong, new questions will be asked to guide the IA to provide more relevant information. Hope this technology d…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Sonny-Smith-Wolf-Like-Howls-from-the-Bathhouse.mp3 Plenty of musicians have recorded albums of covers, typically at the tail end of their careers, once the creative well has started to run dry and original material is in short supply. However, Sonny Smith’s 2013 album 100 Records, Vol…
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Maria Callas, one of the greatest artists of the past 100 years will be a recurring subject starting December 2023 to celebrate the well-known "La Divina". Sophia Lambton, author of The Callas Imprint - A centennial biography, which you can find in most of the world through Amazon. In this program we are taking a look at her Juilliard Masterclasses…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Chuva-De-Verao-Flofilz-Remix.mp3 Pedro Mizutani is a throwback whose brief whispered imagery will take you back to Ipanema. An obscenely young Brazilian singer who is Jobim for the TikTok generation. FloFilz is a German producer with a penchant for Bossa Nova-infused beats that make m…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Zero-7-In-The-Waiting-Line.mp3 Waiting in line for things is an underrated experience. Or more accurately: a lost art. Think back to your pre-phone life. What did you do while waiting in line for a train, or an amusement park ride, or anything at a government office? It’s hard to reme…
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Is information provided by ChatGPT 3.5 worth reading it if I wanted to learn more about a given opera composer? In the quest of answering it, this series will ask ChatGPT to provide info that when scarce, vague, just a platitude or simply wrong, new questions will be asked to guide the IA to provide more relevant information. Hope this technology d…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Quantic-Time-Is-The-Enemy.mp3 There’s a YouTube video for this song that I find pretty fascinating. It was uploaded in 2011, ten years after the song’s release, by an account called Transferunique. As far as I can tell, this account has nothing to do with Quantic, but since nothing la…
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