
Geno Wolters Merry Christmas too all I know with The Cincinnati Opera Company and may the best of times lie ahead for all in 2010. Happiest of holidays and new years to come. Looking forward to the 2010 season. I wish all well on behalf of my beloved mother Catherine Clark Wolters. peace and joy as a star in the East is about to sh...ine. Merry Christmas too all, and too all a Good night. Geno

Cincinnati Opera Facebooking will be sparse from us over the holidays; we'll be back in full-force starting 1/4/10. Please have a safe and joyous holiday!

Cincinnati Opera Happy birthday Puccini! What's YOUR favorite Puccini opera??

The Arts | The baritone who forgot his pants, and other crazy classical music stories of 2009 | Seat
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News of the weird, from the classical music world: Conductor David Ott fell into an orchestra pit; composer Curtis Hughes wrote an opera about Sarah Palin; and baritone Bryn Terfel forgot his pants in 2009.

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The British Library has uploaded images of the draft score of Handel's "Messiah," scribbled onto 280 pages in the summer of 1741.

Music Review - James Morris - George London Foundation Pairs Vocal Talents at the Morgan - NYTimes.c
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Marjorie Owens, a 28-year-old American soprano with a big, gleaming voice shared a program with the towering bass-baritone James Morris.

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Piles of CDs surround me. I have been feeding them into my computer to suck the music out of them. And then I pack them away.

Cincinnati Opera An amazing profile on the amazingly generous Louise Nippert.
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She is known to her friends simply as 'Liesel.' But few people who see 98-year-old philanthropist Louise Dieterle Nippert realize that she and her late husband, Louis Nippert, have quietly funded many of their hometown's institutions - for hundreds of millions of dollars. ...

Cincinnati Opera ...from last night's BIG Nippert Foundation announcement on the stage of Music Hall.

Gift from Louise Nippert Called "Transformational" : Music in Cincinnati - Classical Music Journalis
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Classical music in Cincinnati will remain one of the Queen City's crown jewels, thanks to a just-announced $85 million gift from philanthropist Louise Dieterle Nippert. To be called the Louise ...

news.cincinnati.com
A deep love of classical music has prompted arts patron and philanthropist Louise Nippert to announce a gift of $85 million to preserve music at the highest possible quality in Greater Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Opera Celebrate the holidays with the VAE: Vocal Arts Ensemble this weekend. Saturday night at St. Peter in Chains downtown & Sunday afternoon at St. Boniface in Northside.
Location:St. Peter in Chains/St. Boniface
Time:8:00PM Saturday, December 12th

Cincinnati Opera
Take a stroll down memory lane with opera historian Charles Parsons as he looks back at Cincinnati Opera’s history with photos, recordings, and other memorabilia. Come for the stories. Stay for the cake!
About Charles Parsons
Charles H. Parsons, a well-known opera scholar, critic, and performer, has been involved in almo...st every facet of opera research and production. He is author of the Mellen Opera Reference Index—an on-going series on many aspects of opera (35 volumes now published)—and is a music critic for American Record Guide, Opera (London), Opera News, and the recently published A Celebration of Cincinnati Opera. Mr. Parsons is frequently engaged as lecturer for Cincinnati Opera and many other arts organizations as well as the University of Cincinnati’s College of Continuing Education and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Admission is $5
**Tickets go on-sale January 5, 2010**
Call 513.241.2742 for tickets
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, January 20th
Location:Taft Museum of Art
























