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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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