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Opera Can Help You to Become a Better Person
In Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal, about the search for the Holy Grail, a character sings about “enlightenment through compassion”. Wagner was the most theoretically ambitious of all opera composers...
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A Prison Opera and Digital Transformation Boost Diversity of Artistic Voices
By Emanuela Barbiroglio Four professional Portuguese singers performed the main roles in a new opera based on Homer’s “Odyssey” at a packed concert hall in Portugal’s capital Lisbon in mid-June. Also...
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Is This the Tree Which Inspired Handel?
By The Conservation Foundation “May fate prove kind to you, tender and beautiful leaves of my beloved plane / and may thunder, lightning and tempest never disturb your precious peace, / nor the...
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The Opera Singer and the Sanctions
By Dean Baker The decision of the New York Metropolitan Opera to not host Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko, unless she explicitly repudiates Vladimir Putin, has received a great deal of attention....
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A Man’s Secret Friends
Sidekick, A Column About Disability: 1960 It was the age of high fidelity and there I was in my grandmother’s attic with a Victrola. How odd it was, its needle-like the nose of an insect, the platter...
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Black Opera: Singing Over Ourselves
I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, often called “the Whitest City in America.” I’m a Black singer, dancer, actor, composer, and musician. I’m an opera singer and a contemporary, soulful artist....
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Opera Crimes
— By Susan Reed Today is the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth. Our Music Blog is marking this with news of a digitisation project, but I make no excuse for blogging on the same topic on the...
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The Day We Found Out My Daughter Is Losing Her Hearing
She’s lost half her hearing since the last time she was tested,” the doctor told me. “How long ago was that?” I asked. “About six months ago.” I looked at my daughter, who at this point curled up into...
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Nature or Nurture: Do Kids and Culture Clash?
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ~Albert Einstein In our modern society, it is a very rare and...
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Turning my Gifts and Fears into Blessings
As an empath, I live in a world of visual stories, sounds that paint emotions, a mesh of my own internal movie and the guest movies of others coming and going at will.Spinning in the maze of emotions,...
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The Mask Of Masculinity: Their traditional role under assault, modern men are...
-TO VIEW VIDEO GO TO BOTTOM OF POST-What is the biggest challenge modern men face?Some would ask, “Men have challenges?” Others would say “Men ARE a challenge.”In all seriousness though, some would...
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Aria for a Lost Weekend (The Carmen Dilemma)
Bob Varettoni had a weekend at home alone. The problem? What to do with his time. This weekend, I was home alone in New Jersey for the first time in 20 years.I’ve been away on business without my wife...
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Mark Twain, the Depth
Professor Bobkoff is not returning to campus this fall, but his daughter will never forget what he taught her.—-It is a stunning fall morning here in New England, air crisp, the leaves shot through...
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A Night at the Opera. It Might Be Nice For Some Other Guy.
Jim Mitchem makes a discovery about himself. At the opera.It’s funny how you discover things about yourself when you’re not looking. Like last week, for example, when I found out that I’m not an opera...
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Can you guess who this future star is?We got ahold of this never before seen video…guess right and you might get a private concert. The post You Are My Sunshine appeared first on The Good Men Project.
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America’s Got Talent – Don’t Judge a Goth Book by Its Cover
Andrew DeLeon.It’s a name I think we’re going to be hearing a lot in the next few months.In case you haven’t seen it, this kid comes out on stage in full Goth gear: black eyeliner, long hair, and...
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Aria for a Lost Weekend (The Carmen Dilemma)
Bob Varettoni had a weekend at home alone. The problem? What to do with his time. This weekend, I was home alone in New Jersey for the first time in 20 years. I’ve been away on business without my...
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Mark Twain, the Depth
Professor Bobkoff is not returning to campus this fall, but his daughter will never forget what he taught her. —- It is a stunning fall morning here in New England, air crisp, the leaves shot through...
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A Night at the Opera. It Might Be Nice For Some Other Guy.
Jim Mitchem makes a discovery about himself. At the opera. It’s funny how you discover things about yourself when you’re not looking. Like last week, for example, when I found out that I’m not an...
View ArticleYou Are My Sunshine
Can you guess who this future star is? We got ahold of this never before seen video…guess right and you might get a private concert. The post You Are My Sunshine appeared first on The Good Men Project.
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