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	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Carmen - synopsis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carmen is an opera about sex and violence and racism. It&#8217;s probably the best known opera of all time.
Micaela, a peasant girl,  is in love with Don Jose. Don Jose falls for the gypsy Carmen, who works in the cigarette factory. When Carmen get into it at the factory with another woman, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Betty strikes again - episode 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radio Betty covered The Merry Widow, Turandot, Carmen and Madama Butterfly this month. It was richly informative and sure to enrage listeners who know anything at all about opera.
Here&#8217;s the playlist:

 Nessun Dorma - Three Redneck Tenors
 Merry Widow Waltz - Kings of Dixieland
 Meet Me at Maxims - Lisette Verea
 Non piangere, Liu - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Widow - synopsis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been worried about telling you about Franz Lehar&#8217;s The Merry Widow because it takes place at the Pontevedrian Embassy and, having never been to Pontevedro, I didn&#8217;t know how to pronounce it. Imagine my delight at discovering that it&#8217;s a fictitious Balkan state – so I can&#8217;t possibly pronounce it wrong. I don&#8217;t remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hockey opera</title>
		<link>http://operabetty.com/?p=323</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>opera betty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well no one got fired for our pilot radio program, or our post pilot radio program, so we&#8217;re going to keep trying until heads roll. Radio Betty is officially in the 12pm slot, second Sunday of the month. Which is coming right up.
(breathes into paper bag)
You can listen to it online at womr.org.
Between the radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Betty - episode 2</title>
		<link>http://operabetty.com/?p=308</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do feel like I&#8217;m having an episode here.
Here&#8217;s what we played on WOMR today (June 27, 2010):
Soul Meets Body - Renee Fleming
Waltz from Eugene Onegin - Moscow State Symphony
Lensky&#8217;s Aria - Placido Domingo
Che Gelida Manina - Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Karajan
Quando Men Vo - Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Karajan
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Coming - David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Betty</title>
		<link>http://operabetty.com/?p=288</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>opera betty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Opera Betty was on WOMR 92.1 in Provincetown (and on the net at womr.org) for a whole glorious hour of opera-ishness. It may or may not ever happen again.
We started off with Please Kind Sir by Three Redneck Tenors and then charged straight into the world&#8217;s most puzzling synopsis of Verdi&#8217;s Aida ever heard on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Opera, Summer Encore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What says summer like watching people suffer in love? Go ahead and spend your day being all happy at the beach, and then go watch six Very Sad, Tragic Operas! It&#8217;s the stuff summer memories are made of.
The Metropolitan Opera has taken pity on those of us who need to stay out of the sun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aida - synopsis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Aida is set in Egypt because people like seeing exotic things without getting off their couches. That&#8217;s why there are so many operas about hookers. This one&#8217;s not about a hooker. It&#8217;s about the captain of the Egyptian guard, Radames, who is in love with an Ethiopian slave, Aida. Aida is the slave of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Opera Betty</title>
		<link>http://operabetty.com/?p=285</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 12:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Feature! We&#8217;re starting a new Ask Opera Betty column. Please send your (vaguely) opera-related questions to:
opera (dot) betty at gmail (dot) com.
We&#8217;ll make up an answer.
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		<title>Armida - synopsis</title>
		<link>http://operabetty.com/?p=281</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 23:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>opera betty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Armida is one of those operas you don&#8217;t see very much because it&#8217;s really, really hard to perform. There are 6 tenor parts - all of which are for good tenors, not sucky tenors. It&#8217;s a bel canto opera and the role of Armida is written for a coloratura soprano (check the glossary).
Armida is a [...]]]></description>
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