What Are You Listening To This Weekend?

A special National Opera Week Friday is upon us, which means it is time to ask: what are you listening to this weekend?

Here at the Aria Serious Tower we're going to take it all the way back to the first opera recording we ever owned, Puccini's Turandot.

Sure, there were records and other recordings before this one, but this is the first opera cd we ever purchased - a rainy Saturday back in 1990 at Tower Records on El Cajon Blvd. It even beat out such 90's staples as Nine Inch Nails, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and Depeche Mode (which haven't aged as well as Puccini's masterpiece I might add - well OK, "Pretty Hate Machine" pretty much still rules).

So what are your listening plans this weekend? Share them in the comment section below.

And oh, for those of you in Southern California, our friends at Amoeba Records in Hollywood are having a big classical/music opera sale this weekend. In honor of National Opera Week? Probably not, but everything is 20% off so that's reason to celebrate enough.

Make it a great one!

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Smorg said…
Went to the premier of Hansel und Gretel (in English) at the Lyric Opera San Diego. Now I'm spending the weekend watching a recording of the La Traviata that Zurich Opera staged at the Hauptbahnhof in 2008 and wishing the same sort of thing would fly here in the USA. :o)

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