• We start with Kalman ~ the Gypsy Princess. I’m trying hard to embrace opera. It seems like the cultual thing to do. But this album, after [...]

  For He’s Gone and Married Yum-Yum

  December 11, 2012
• Howdy record blog folks. I find myself with an hour at work this am free. Just enough time to catchup on almost a week’s worth of record [...]

  They Can’t Take That Away From Me.

  September 21, 2012
• Pavarotti’s Greatest Hits is the opera album we bring you ce soir. This double album only has the side 1 &2 in it. But it’s a [...]

  Pavarotti ~ Pagliacci Vesti la Giubba

  September 10, 2012
•    Madame Butterfly ~Puccini Essentially: An handsome marine officer is on leave in an asian town. There he meets a woman, seduce her, and she [...]

  A terrible story, sung perfectly.

  June 5, 2012

• Oh Richard Burton and Julie Andrew, eat your heart out! Epic. CAMELOT opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York City on Dec. 03, 1960. Loved it. [...]

  the way to handle a woman.. is to simply love her.

  April 23, 2012
•  Viva La Revolution! Cecilia Valdes a Cuban Operetta by Gonzalo Roig. Superb! This one is a keeper, a real vintage and cultural treat. 10 thumbs [...]

  half sister lovers & wedding assassinations.

  March 16, 2012
• “man I love opera..shit!” Kathy McIntrye (my sweety’s aunt). The Barber of Seville is March’s first entry and an awesome [...]

  a pretense of drunkenness will disarm the old doctor’s suspicions.

  March 1, 2012
•      Beethoven. Not really my thing, classical ~ but in truth I haven’t given it a real chance or had an education in it. Have you? [...]

  how do I become a classics fan?

  January 17, 2012