Dziedu stipro repertuāru. Intervija ar Dmitro Popovu

Thanks to each of you for your comments. I agree that my tone here is a liltte flip and I regret that. I wrote the post in the heat of the moment (immediately after the AZ decision) and my personal experience with immigrant communities in North Carolina has made me quite passionate about all of this.But I guess I would push back a liltte on the interpretation of my criticism of the Tea Party. I did not say that its members were emotional, empty-headed, irrational, or racist. My point was to make a rather lame joke about the incongruity of the term Tea Party (which we've always associated with white-glove civility) and much of the very uncivil rhetoric that's been associated with this new political group.I also don't think that the immigration problem is fundamentally about borders. I agree that there are real issues to be dealt with like crime, as Mr. Sutton points out; but those are matters of lawlessless and should be dealt with as such. The immigration problem at root is that U.S. immigration law is completely broken outdated, unworkable, and grossly unfair.And, finally, I do think that Christians must think about these matters in ways that see immigrants not as aliens nor criminals, but as neighbors, persons to whom we are called to love and be in relationship with. I'm not being naive or romantic; it's just that the way of Jesus troublesome and inconvenient as it is invites us to this work. And I can say from experience that it is holy, joyful work.

Popovs Lucia di Lammermoor bija lielisks, arī Rebeka, Apeinis un Banniks. Piedodiet, bet ko uz operas skatuvas dara Jansons? Ja pārskata kora problēmas, varbūt pārskatīt arī viena otra solista problēmas. Jansons ir viens no tiem. Kad programmā rakstīts, ka dziedās viņš, skaidrs, ka tuvojas katastrofa. Laikam šī iemesla pēc briesmīgs likās Il barbiere di Siviglia, arī pavasarī Jāņa baznīcā izpildītais Mocarta Rekviēms.

"Decembrī un janvārī dziedāšu Rūdolfa lomu Bohēmā Koventgārdena operā, uz pusēm ar Rolando Viljasonu decembrī un janvārī." Un Mimī tur visās šīs ziemas izrādēs ganpartnerībā ar Viljasonu, gan ar Dmitro Popovu dziedās mūsu Maija Kovaļevska - vēl viens brīnišķīgs soprāns no Latvijas, kuru daudzi opermīļi uzskata par šībrīža operas pasaules Mimī etalonu.