Opera
Angelina Jordan, Age 7, Channels Billie Holiday's "Gloomy Sunday" on 'Norway's Got Talent' Audition
Quickies: Lil Boosie Bieber Musical, New Glenn Beck, Esa-Pekka Salonen Wins Nemmers, Anne of Green Gables Beats Record, Robert Ashley Remembered
As SPIN reports, the newly freed rapper Lil Boosie "wrote over a thousand songs, a book, and a musical while in jail," and he'd like very much to collaborate with Justin Bieber on something. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Age 70, to Retire from Opera Stage After Donizetti/Puccini at Covent Garden (Or So She Says)
Kiri Te Kanawa has said in a British television interview that she will retire from the opera stage. She's currently giving a cameo as the Duchess of Crackentorp in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment at Covent Garden--and the staging has been massaged to give her an aria (from Puccini's Edgar, since you ask, as the Duchess is written as a speaking role). And that, she expects, will be it as far as the opera stage goes.
