{"id":955,"date":"2006-01-03T00:19:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T00:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:31","slug":"dead_white_male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"Dead White Males Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a shameless advertisement (sorry, fellow WoC’ers…).<\/p>\n

I’m a fan of all kinds of music – as long as it’s interesting and well-performed. I’m a big fan (disclosure: also a board member) of the Long Beach Opera, a regional avant-garde company that has done some incredible work in the last few years.<\/p>\n

This year, they are putting on a “chamber Ring” – as in “Wagner’s Ring” not “the-VCR-that-kills-people-Ring.” This is the Birmingham Opera version, and it’s ten hours over two days (as opposed to fifteen hours over five days).<\/p>\n

I’ve been to some rehearsals, and it looks and sounds damn cool. Our Siegmund stood in for Placido Domingo in the L.A. Opera’s Parsifal a few weeks ago, and got some great reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a full weekend of music – an immersion in fantasy – and you can read about it (and, more important, order tickets) at the LBO website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a shameless advertisement (sorry, fellow WoC’ers…). I’m a fan of all kinds of music – as long as it’s interesting and well-performed. I’m a big fan (disclosure: also a board member) of the Long Beach Opera, a regional avant-garde company that has done some incredible work in the last few years. This year, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}