Fred Plotkin
Pleasure activist and egalitarian. Italy, opera, author, speaker, food, wine
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2 months ago |
playbill.com | Fred Plotkin
Over the coming months, New Yorkers can revel in remarkably different facets of the artistry of Renée Fleming. The American soprano — who received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2023 for her career achievements — first arrives on February 14, when Fleming joins pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, her longtime musical partner, on an Artist Spotlight recital that includes songs by Gabriel Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Olivier Messiaen, Richard Strauss, and Alan Fletcher.
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2 months ago |
playbill.com | Fred Plotkin
Over the coming months, New Yorkers can revel in remarkably different facets of the artistry of Renée Fleming. The American soprano — who received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2023 for her career achievements — first arrives on February 14, when Fleming joins pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, her longtime musical partner, on an Artist Spotlight recital that includes songs by Gabriel Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Olivier Messiaen, Richard Strauss, and Alan Fletcher.
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Jul 24, 2023 |
theinsider1.com | Fred Plotkin
By Fred Plotkin / New YorkIt has been a pleasure to be a weekly contributor to The Insider since its inception at the beginning of the Covid-19 plague that swept the world. I am grateful to Andrea Sachs and her team for the opportunity. The name applied to the disease that became a pandemic reminds us that it was described in autumn 2019. It seems to have first appeared in China and most people elsewhere chose to think of it as someone else’s problem. I never did.
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Jul 22, 2023 |
iitaly.org | Fred Plotkin
Andrea Purgatori (February 1,1953-July 19, 2023). Members of the talented, ambitious and idiosyncratic class of 1980 of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University are mourning the death—after a short fight with cancer—of our beloved friend and colleague. Andrea and I met on the first day of school. I had just returned to my native New York after years of living in Italy and, frankly, my language skills in Italian were better than my English.
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Feb 23, 2022 |
wqxr.org | Fred Plotkin
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Dead Man Walking (Heggie/McNally) opened the Metropolitan Opera season magnificently. Do try to see it in the house or on HD Oct. 21. I will do the pre-performance lecture at BAM. Tickets here: https://t.co/s2C8TUk73t
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