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Name

Bio

Stephen Llewellyn worked with Portland Opera for nearly four years and still produces this blog on a weekly basis. You may see him manning the Portland Opera table at the Metropolitan Opera High Definition transmissions where he enjoys chatting with like-minded Saturday morning opera fans. Do stop by and say 'hello'. He has been a barrister in Hong Kong, a professional folk singer and classically-trained tenor. He makes a mean zabaglione, and cries easily and frequently at opera performances.

Opera and Other Links

The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross of the New Yorker

Sieglinda's Diaries

Parterre Box

Opera Chic

On an Overgrown Path

Norman Lebrecht

Metropolitan Opera

Jessica Duchen

Dramma per Musica

think denk

Anne Midgette

The Omniscient Mussel

Northwest Reverb

Là ci darem la mano

Turn to the Music
 

What I Am Reading

In Patagonia (Bruce Chatwin)

Memoirs (Da Ponte)

The Librettist of Venice (Bolt)

Ship Fever (Andrea Barrett)

Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)

Beethoven. Letters, Journals and Conversations

The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll)

The Mauritius Command (O'Brian)

What I am listening to as I write this week's post...

Nixon in China (new recording)

Vanessa (Barber)

John Martyn

Leon Redbone Christmas Album

Christmas With The Yours (Elio)

Mozart Requiem (arr. for String Quartet)

Tosca (Callas)

Till Eulenspiegel (Strauss)