opera

We are tired of Election News and Racism, so how about a fun Arts & Culture story? Someone discovered a secret, previously unreleased Gilbert and Sullivan sequel to The Pirates of Penzance, and then made a music video for it. Is this another opera about goofy pirates, in two acts? No, this is a romantic [...]

Sure, that Vanity Fair piece out today was sort of poorly sourced (although still fun!), but isn’t that allegation that Sarah Palin maybe doesn’t do her own tweets kinda damning? So how does “Sarah” address this? “Media goofballs.” “Cake ink.” The end.

WAGNERIAN HILLBILLY  1:35 pm July 14, 2010

by Riley Waggaman

NEW BILL CLINTON OPERA WILL BE PARSIFAL + EPIC BLOW JOBS: “Billy Blythe features ‘a snapshot of a day of his life in Hot Springs in the 1950s,’ says the opera’s producer, Bonnie Montgomery to our Suzi Parker. ‘Clinton’s life is very operatic, over the top, the perfect operatic vision,’ says the classically trained musician [...]

Saturday, May 1 through Friday, May 7: Barack Obama’s admission that he’s anti-Real American and the Caps devastating Game Six loss weren’t the only important pieces of news on the cover of Tuesday’s second class morning read. Note the righthand corner where it’s revealed that the Washington National Opera’s Marriage of Figaro is a “delight.” [...]

As the city tries to dig itself out from mountains of snow, and the DC Tweeter snowball people try to make sense of what that mean old officer did, what’s important is that everyone’s favorite holiday when Baby Jesus came into the world is just DAYS away. The city’s all frozen, Obama’s going to get health care [...]

Barack Obama has everything he needs to take over the world (1,000 kilos of moutarde de Dijon, his mother-in-law’s crystal ball, and uh, Brookstone Tempur-Pedic Comfort-Step slippers). [TPM] In the words of Lenin: “A lie told often enough helps Jim Inhofe manage a chubby.” [Think Progress] L’Alberto, a new opera by the great Monteverdi, retells [...]

Friday, August 7: While it may not be nearly as exciting as the Air Sex Finals that were held in DC this past June, the US Air Guitar Championships at the 9:30 Club tonight should still be an entertaining evening. Watch people awkwardly strum their stomachs for a chance to be crowned Champion and the [...]

This weird and wonderful year has been packed with implausibilities and impossibilities: the Clintons losing, a black man elected president and Peggy Noonan occassionally making sense. This week’s installment of her serialized first-person novel of Manhattan Madness, Declarations, contains two well-written arguments for the current conventional wisdom — Hillary is an interesting yet troublesome choice [...]


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