http://idyllist.idyllspress.com Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:01:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...is now up on GodSpy. The book, by David Lebedoff, is a surprising dual biography of (!) George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh. http://idyllist.idyllspress.com/2008/09/30/debras-mini-review-of-the-same-man/ Great news for opera fans: The Metropolitan Opera will begin a subscription-based online broadcasting service beginning October 22. Read about it here from the New York Times. In the meantime, there are several other great ways to see/hear the Met, even if you live on the Left Coast, as we do. ... http://idyllist.idyllspress.com/2008/09/25/metropolitan-opera-to-broadcast-online/ For those of you who got a bang out of the Michael Bolton/Pavarotti Nessun Dorma duet, here's another, and perhaps even better example of classic/popular pairings: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atoF1fpGK2o[/youtube] http://idyllist.idyllspress.com/2008/09/17/one-more-time/ In the "Beauty" category... My girls just came back from a trip to our old stomping grounds in Salem---a five hour drive each way---gushing about a version of Puccini's incomparable Nessun Dorma they'd been listening to en route on Maire's iPod. The song was sung by---wait for it---Michael Bolton! Granted, my all-time favorite ... http://idyllist.idyllspress.com/2008/09/13/nessun-dormaem-as-youve-never-heard-it-before/ After a nearly summer-long hiatus, while editor Angelo Matera worked to further upgrade GodSpy into a first class "Web 2.0" Catholic online magazine and intellectual forum, new posts, articles and links are now coming on daily, and many will be contributed by our own John Murphy.  John's latest is a review of ... http://idyllist.idyllspress.com/2008/09/09/john-on-hansens-exiles-on-godspy/