First Base to Primo Basso
I know of only one person who gave up an opera career for baseball, but there seem to have been many who have gone in the opposite direction. On Site […] More
I know of only one person who gave up an opera career for baseball, but there seem to have been many who have gone in the opposite direction. On Site […] More
October 2017 marks my 45th consecutive year as (freelance) engineer-in-charge at the media department at the Metropolitan Opera. That’s a long time to work for a company, but it’s not […] More
His name was Julijan Ochorowicz (though his first name was also spelled Julian or even Julien), and he was, among other things, a scientist, engineer, mathematician, inventor (credited with […] More
A long time ago, I worked on a television show featuring opera star Luciano Pavarotti singing at the Spectrum arena, home of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team. The concert […] More
A version of this was originally posted in Media-Technology and Opera History on Rossini’s 54th birthday, February 29, 2016. Gioachino Rossini, composer of such operas as Il barbiere di […] More
This one has it all, from toxic candles to quantum entanglement, the story of how opera created the modern media world, with full references. Here’s a free link to […] More
Opera has a long history of bootleg recording. The “Golden Age of Opera” label, begun in the 1950s, used unauthorized off-air recordings from Metropolitan Opera (Met) radio broadcasts. Before […] More
Opera was alive and well in New York City, again, in 2015. I have tried to compile all of the opera performances there in that year. I’ve probably missed […] More
Presented at SID: Sounds, Images, and Data 2015 (http://ocradst.org/sid2015), New York University, New York City on July 24, 2015. Direct Link (69 MB / TRT 35:36): Operatic Media Borrowings, […] More
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