opera

To be clear, I have been a fan of opera tenor Placido Domingo since at least the release of his pop album Perhaps Love in 1981. The title song, written by the late John Denver and sung as a duet with Denver, is a masterpiece of pop music writing and there are other tracks, sung solo, that use...

I went to the opera today. It was Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro done by the opera program at Western. Obviously, it was not as professional and polished as you'd get at Opera Ontario or the COC, but they do a remarkable job. The leads were good at their roles, they had some nice set pieces...

Montserrat Caballe, a powerful vocal force in opera since I was born, has passed away at 85. On the news today, they reported that the Catalan soprano was accepted into a prestigious music college in Barcelona at 9 years old and that her Carnegie Hall debut in 1965 resulted in a 20 minute...