![]() ![]() Soprano Leontyne Price at age 90 represents what it means to be a diva. Tenor Placido Domingo one of “The Three Tenors” including Pavarotti and Jose Carreras Tenor Luciano Pavarotti (1955-2006) one of the most renowned performers in opera. Soprano Joan Sutherland (1926-2010) known for her ability to reach an F-sharp. Soprano Maria Callas(1923-77) known for breaking glass with the notes she hit. Tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) one of the first recorded stars. Opera’s stars and divas are majestic voices and people including world-renown tenors and sopranos. If you’ve listened to an artist and heard the conviction of heart and emotional commitment to imparting a life experience that’s memorable, you could become an opera aficionado. Typically, at the end of an aria, the solo performer is exhausted, lauded and applauded with the hopes of an encore, or at the very least a bow on second curtain at the end of the performance. Opera has drawn audiences worldwide and left them in tatters…like only the operatic timbre of the best tenor or the perfect pitch of the finest of soprano can do. Opera is sung in Italian, German, and French. There are wars, there are comedies, tragedies and complex tales sung for between two to four even six hours to an audience that reads subtitles shared from the stage. Opera story usually involves unrequited love where one gives his or her life for the undying love and commitment of or for another who often cannot (tragically) return that commitment. Opera can only be described as poetic, classical music, filled with romance and wrapped around the most tangled of love triangles. ![]() Opera shares stories in song where each line, every moment and emotion is performed only musically through the voice of the performer, whether a soprano, a tenor, reaches levels that can send its audience into another realm. The vibrato, the power and the range and depth and peak sound that is shared is almost surreal. Opera combines theater with vocal performance by highly trained artists whose singing voices reach and exceed levels that few can achieve. ![]() The Voice is also in season 12, Music moves us and lifts us. The show in Nielsen ratings ending last week had a 2.7 rating among adults 18-49 and had 12.53 million viewers tuning in at one time. 1 show on national television is NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” in its 12th season. Music enthralls America which is why the nation’s No. Check the schedule at the bottom of this piece. To experience opera, you can watch The Metropolitan Opera 2016-17 Season Rebroadcasts from June through September at The Enzian Theater, in Regal Cinema Theaters and on PBS. If you’ve ever listened to a song that takes you back to a moment in your life, as it touches you with a cacophony of sound like no other, you’ll understand my love for opera. ![]()
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