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Just What Opera Was Missing: Baby Noises

by Tom Henderson, Posted May 18th 2011 11:00AM

"BabyO" combines recorded music with live singing. Credit: Getty Images Mark Twain was no fan of opera. After watching a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's "Travatore," the author quipped it contained "that sort of intense but incoherent ...British opera invites babies to babble as incomprehensibly as adults.
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Fifty years of the wabbit

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jul 9th 2007 10:29AM

It's a classic. It was voted, by those who know, as the best ever. And you probably don't even know its name. I know I didn't. Just for the record, it's called "What's Opera, Doc?" and it is the greatest cartoon of all. Furthermore, It's now fifty ...
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For your little viking

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 19th 2007 11:55AM

When I was a kid, I figured out pretty quick that all that sex and violence and other good stuff I wasn't allowed to see in movies was A-okay when presented in the form of an opera. Woohoo! Not all operas (most, in fact) consist of large women in ...
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