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Showing posts with label opera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opera. Show all posts
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Opera Watch! We take in some culture and see "Tosca" at the Houston Grand Opera

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So, it's pretty hard to call me an opera fan.  I mean, the only opera I've seen live in the past 30 years has been Das Rheingold .  ...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

For some reason: a music-related post

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I didn't post last night, so I feel obligated to check in. I've been down in San Marcos, south of Austin by about 30 minutes, fo...
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Monday, October 1, 2012

Opera Watch: Götterdämmerung - We Wrap It Up with Opera #4

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People, let me start at the end and the advice I have for you: If you see some gold at the bottom of The Rhine, just leave it. Okay. ...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Opera Watch: Siegfried from the Met (2011)

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Again, I know absolutely nothing about opera, Germans, Norse/ Germanic mythology, etc... But we did make it through four hours of Siegfrie...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Opera Watch: The Ring Cycle Parts 1 & 2

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Again - I know absolutely nothing about opera.  Nothing.  I'm also not particularly up on my Germanic/ Norse mythology, my Wagner, or ba...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Gotter DAMN erung! We're taking a break from blogging.

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Y'all, I'm kind of not going to be posting this week. WHY? Because Wagner's The Ring Cycle is going to be playing every nig...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

And of course I got distracted and decided Germanic/ Norse Mythology by way of Opera is Really, Really Important

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Back in college my pal Bryan Manzo was a music major, and one night (I cannot remember why), he started telling me about Richard Wagner'...