Theater
Prima Ballerina Janet Sassoon Releases 'Reverence' Memoir via XLibris Books
Home Sweet Home: Adelina Patti, the Soprano Who Sang for President Abraham Lincoln
In 1862, during the American Civil War, soprano Adelina Patti visited the White House and sang for Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary. Patti--then only 19, yet already well known in the U.S.--sang a number of songs, ending with "Home Sweet Home," a song requested by Lincoln himself. Classicalite's Five Best: Opera Films
A dying art? James Inverne picks five of the best cinematic opera adaptations. It's not easy putting opera on the big screen. Oh, you'd think it would be fine--that the scale of the screen would match and even elevate the scale of the operatic form.
