{"id":1384,"date":"2007-02-01T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1384"},"modified":"2007-02-01T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T13:47:00","slug":"tune-in-to-cbc-radio-2-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1384","title":{"rendered":"Tune In To CBC Radio 2 NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tune into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/index.html#\">CBC Radio Two<\/a> at noon today (ie. RIGHT THIS MINUTE!) to listen to my friend Jim sing in the world premiere of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/story\/2006\/07\/13\/frobisher-opera.html\">&#8216;Frobisher&#8217;<\/a> a new opera from composer John Estacio and librettist John Murrell. Directed by Kelly Robinson at the Calgary Opera, it features an all-Canadian cast under conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni.<\/p>\n<p><i>**EDITED TO ADD** If you still want to listen, 12-1pm was just the &#8220;making of the opera&#8221; show, but the entire opera is being played from 1pm &#8211; 3:30pm, so you can tune in anytime before then (sampling of lyrics so far include: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to make tea!&#8221;, and &#8220;Don&#8217;t make a face, I promise I&#8217;ll grow on you. We&#8217;re going to blend like fine wine and old cheese&#8221; &#8220;Oh God, give me a break&#8221; &#8220;Only if you say please&#8221; &#8211; sometimes I wish all Canadian opera could just use our other official language, because things just sound better sung in French than in English)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tune into CBC Radio Two at noon today (ie. RIGHT THIS MINUTE!) to listen to my friend Jim sing in the world premiere of &#8216;Frobisher&#8217; a new opera from composer John Estacio and librettist John Murrell. Directed by Kelly Robinson at the Calgary Opera, it features an all-Canadian cast under conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni. **EDITED TO <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1384\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}