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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 16 Sep 24

Strictly Come Dancing is a dancing competition in the UK, where celebrities are teamed up with professional dancers and taught to dance, then on the Saturday they dance live on air and get critiqued by four judges, then given a...

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How to Learn an Opera in a Month

divalounger @divalounger (6182) • United States 11 Sep 22

Actually, I suppose it is more like 2 months total, but I am expected to have the music memorized by the time of the first rehearsal--an act blocked and learned each weekend--then 1 weekend of running it and voila--we will be up...

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il trovatore

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The Days are Filled

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 17 Dec 19

The kids have so many extra things to do at school that there is hardly any attempt at school work. That does not mean they are not learning though. The entire school is going over to the Performing Arts Center, where a local...

december 2019

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christmas

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A nice way to go to your final resting place

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381760) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Sep 19

Vince went into Donnybrook earlier and told me about the radio programme he was listening to in the car. They played Verdi’s March of the Hebrew Slaves from the opera Nabucco, and the announcer went on to say that, when first...

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My first Opera

John Beasley @Beaser (391) • United States 24 Jun 19

So this past weekend I attended my very first opera. Since I've never been to one before I wasn't sure what to expect but my wife, Mom, and I made the trek to Miami Beach to check out Miami Music Festivals rendition of Osvaldo...

mmf

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vettix

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Mesmerising and its origins

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381760) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Apr 19

My guess would be that we’ve all heard of the word ‘mesmerise’ but did you know that Franz Anton Mesmer was an 18th century German physician who founded a therapeutic movement which was called mesmerism? Part of his belief was...

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Movie Review The Phantom Of The Opera

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 7 Apr 19

Dario Argento’s 1998 version of the oft-told tale is different in many respects, and also quite faithful in others, and though sometimes too silly for its own good, it retains enough beauty and genuine tension to count as a worthy...

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Phantom Mode

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 26 Jan 19

I used to tell friends I always have free concerts and free operas at home. And how I enjoyed very much those piano learning days when my daughters groped Mozart's and Chopin's notes, and that time they discovered Les Miserables....

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The Tragical Farce Of The Bouncing Tosca

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 9 Sep 18

There are many great stories of embarrassing disasters in rock music live shows and blooper reels on movies gone wrong but you rarely think of such chaos disrupting something as classy as a major opera. One legendary staging...

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Movie Review Florence Foster Jenkins

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 5 Aug 18

2016 – Spoiler alerts. A true movie about the World’s worst opera singer could easily have been played for laughs throughout and though the film has a great deal of humour it is actually a very touching and even tragic tale....

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Event Review From Beat Boxing To Underwater Opera

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 22 May 18

Getting Involved I have been involved in many unusual projects and events over the years, as my philosophy on life is to try anything and everything while I can – life’s too short not to grab every opportunity presented. So a...

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Carmen on the Lake - an engaging filmed opera set on Lake Constance

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381760) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Jan 18

It’s 7am here and we've just got up. For us, this is late but we went to the first of the Summer Film Festival movies last night in Bunbury, Western Australia. The movie ‘Carmen on the Lake’ took just over 2 ½ hours but kept us...

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The BBC gets it right at last

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 26 Dec 17

Occasionally operas are transmitted on British television, which suits me because I do like opera. However, I do have a pet hate concerning the actual timing. For most of the year it would not matter, but during periods such as...

television

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seasonal

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# 14 Odd Facts

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 20 Dec 17

Here is a really ODD fact, I think. My morning reading finds all sorts of ODD facts. Enrico Caruso, a very famous opera singer, in his day, wore anchovies around his neck, supposedly to protect his singing voice from the two...

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Fall In Love With THE PHANTOM

Danna B. @db20747 (43419) • Washington, District Of Columbia 16 Nov 17

Seems so romantic even though the phantom is very scary looking. One would fall in love with his charm. One could get swept off their feet by the Phantom. Especially when he swings you around in his arms. Has anyone ever seen THE...

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The Story In The Song Keith West Excerpt From A Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 9 Feb 17

1967. One of the earliest songs I remember hearing and one of the saddest I can still recall. The song tells of a sleepy English village where the ever dependent local green-grocer, Jack, opens his shop and does door to door...

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Best performance of Nessun Dorma since Pavarotti …

Linda Cann Pearson @LindaCPearson (2240) • United States 16 Jan 17

I thought I’d take a break from all the ugly politics and news media, which bring me absolutely no pleasure, only heartburn, and share something that gives me great pleasure. Hopefully, I won’t bore too many of you. During the...

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My daughter gave me two tickets for the Opera.

marguicha @marguicha (230334) • Chile 24 Aug 16

You know that my eldest daughter is going to Europe for 3 weeks and my grandson Diego is staying with me. My daughter had 2 tickets for the Opera to see La Boheme and she was going with her BF. As she couldn´t go, she thought at...

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Movie Review – Aria

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 5 Aug 16

A film from 1987 that presents ten separate movie short stories set to, and inspired by different major film directors and each with a separate cast of highly distinguished actors. Some sequences work better than others though the...

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SophistiCATed

DianneN @DianneN (254949) • United States 2 Aug 16

While catching up on 400,000 emails, I had opera playing on my birthday gift from my brother. It's the black tower on an end table in our old family room. It's called Echo and it's from Amazon. I must remember to say, "Alexa,...

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