New On The Bookshelf
Here at the Aria Serious tower the lab is dominated by a large bookshelf filled with reference material (we try to look it up as opposed to make it up when we can). Dominated by 4 volumes of The Grove Dictionary of Opera we're pleased to announce a new book has been added to the shelf: Weep, Shudder, Die: A Guide to Loving Opera by Robert Levine . While we don't need a guide to loving opera we think the book serves as an excellent, non-threatening, introduction to the opera curious as well as the opera crazy. Less a straight narrative, we find ourselves using the book more as a reference guide to pull little factoids and tidbits that we can use in our otherwise incredibly dry press releases or to impress Dr. Nic Reveles , our Education Director, while in the break room since he knows everything. Really, everything. Mr. Levine clearly loves opera, passionately, but does not approach the art form with that extreme hushed reverence of many books – instead his take on opera is o