Sarah Coburn Chats About Motherhood in the Opera World

Soprano Sarah Coburn is interviewed in Cincinnati where she is currently singing the role of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. One of the more interesting questions:
Q: How do you prepare these days for the stress of going onstage in the leading role?
A: It is much easier than before baby...Now, instead of sitting around worrying all day on opening night, I am spending the day blowing bubbles and watching Elmo's Potty Time. How can you be a nervous wreck when you've got Grover's Accidents Happen song stuck in your head?
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Seattle Opera Promotion Could Get Bloody

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Hopefully the barbers taking part in this promotion will incorporate their skills when matched with speed, otherwise there may be a nick (or two).

"Things may get hairy at McCaw Hall on Saturday, when Seattle Opera hosts "The Barber of Seattle" competitions — a riff on its upcoming production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville. In one of the afternoon's contests baritone David Adam Moore, who will sing the role of Figaro in the Sunday & Friday performances of Barber, will sing while real

Political Theater Compliments of the Dust Bowl

At least the last responders in the Capitol finally came through and passed the Zadroga bill, providing help to the 9/11 first responders, help that should have been there as automatically as our cops and firefighters respond to 911 calls. One senator, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, made rumblings about living up to his nickname, "Dr. No," and single-handedly blocking the bill. Coburn really is a doctor, an obstetrician who delivered 4,000 babies. His opera singer daughter, Sarah, often performs in New York. He has never encountered a military allocation too large for him to support.