TRY Channel Sneaks In An Opera Reference - For Better Or Worse

The TRY Channel on YouTube feature comedians from Ireland, well, trying things. In this most recent holiday edition, they plow through advent calendar drink boxes (beer, gin, whisky) and there is one funny moment at the 18:25 mark if you need a laugh. Watch more of their videos here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTRYChannel/videos. 

Filmmaker Casey Neistat Vlog Gets Operatic Opening From Soprano

Thanks to a diva neighbor, Casey Neistat captures some soaring high notes flying around his Tribeca neighborhood office for the opening of his most recent vlog posting on YouTube. Think you can identify the soprano? Watch the video (titled "The Day I Almost Died"), and see a couple of the most famous commercials (Nike, Mercedes Benz, J Crew) Mr. Neistat has directed, after the jump. Keep up with the rest of his vlog videos by clicking here. 

Uber Driver Tries To Drown Out Pavarotti While Passenger Listens

Find out what the tune is after the jump.

Support Coloraturafan On Crowdfunding Platform GoFundMe

Known to YouTube watchers as Coloraturafan, Dillon is now starting a campaign to fund a new video venture: "I am looking to expand my video collection to include a new segment 'A chat with Coloraturafan.' With this new project includes the necessity to produce my own videos, which means I need to invest and spend. In order to expedite the process I am starting a GoFundMe account. This future venture will include video segments where I interview people in the Opera Industry (singers, directors, conductors, designers, fellow fans) in order to further explore this wonderful art that I love so much, and I hope that the videos will prove both entertaining and informative to the viewers of my channel." With over 16,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel and thousands of videos posted, this young man deserves major support. Make a donation by clicking here. Watch his video after the jump.

Tax Slayer Uses Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" In Commercial

Music underlying the advertisement is the "Walkürenritt" from the beginning of Act III in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre. No guarantee if it will help you put Ikea furniture together though.

Famous August Sings Carmen "Habanera" Video Gets Selected

The original video posted on YouTube by August Schram a year ago has garnered nearly 1 million page views. It was chosen as an "Official Selection" in the Shorts Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2014 and has won countless accolades at other festivals in other countries. From their website: "George Bizet`s 'Habanera' from Carmen has been reinterpreted and enhanced with electronic sounds for MeTube, a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, and gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet. About the Director: Daniel Moshel was born in 1976 in Offenbach am Main, Germany. During his multimedia studies, he directed the short film komA. In 2003, he founded the production company Moshel Film. In 2009, he produced the short film Der Doppelgänger, which was directed by Stephanie Winter. The film won the Excellence Award at the Busan International Short Film Festival. Login 2 Life (2011) was his first feature-length documentary. MeTube: August Sings Carmen 'Habanera' is his first music video." [Source] Cast, credits, and the video, are all after the jump. Remember, you can't un-see after you have watched it. For more information and photos, click here.

Veronika Dzhioeva Has A Voice With Bountiful Bloom

The Russian soprano Veronika Dzhioeva displays a healthy sound of great beauty in the unexpected repertoire of "Im Abendrot" from Vier Letzte Lieder of Richard Strauss. A former prize-winner in the Maria Callas International Competition, she is a regular soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, and Novosibirsk State Opera. Read more about the singer here and watch a few more videos after the jump of Mozart, Puccini, and Verdi arias.

Vintage Kathleen Battle Video Footage 1982 - 1987

At 90, Lina Vasta Sings Better Than Sopranos Half Her Age

Watch this video clip of Casa Verdi resident Lina Vasta singing "La Vergine degli Angeli" from La forza del destino of Giuseppe Verdi. Watch a wonderful documentary featuring the soprano and Casa Verdi residents by clicking here. One more video of this amazing woman, and one possible Korean contender, can be found after the jump.

Choral Fantasy: J.S. Bach and Rene Clausen

Helen Traubel Singt Brunnhildes Schlussgesang Aus Gotterdammerung

Happy Operatic Mother's Day Brought To You By Coloratura Fan

Kathleen Battle Makes Waffles and Grits with B. Smith in 1997

From the television show B. Smith With Style in 1997, Miss Kathleen Battle joins in to make a brunch of waffles and grits. Watch the clip after the jump.

Donna McRae Sings "Una Macchia è Qui Tuttora"

Vintage Clips of June Anderson Singing Music of Verdi

Mariella Devia Sings Guilietta's Aria "Oh! Quante Volte" by Bellini

Get a Taste of Damon Albarn's English Opera "Dr. Dee"

More about the work can be found here and another video featuring the composer discussing the work can be found here.

Reunited And It Feels So Good? Alagna and Gheorghiu on Video

"Santimantalist" Shares Rare Videos of Coloratura Dilbèr Yunus

Check out more videos of Dilbèr Yunus on YouTube

uploaded by user "Santimantalist" by clicking here.

"Aida" Royal Opera House (1968): High Camp AND High Quality