Opera Chic

Who is the Twitterer Behind the Tweet?

Amanda Ameer of Life's A Pitch breaks twitter down and tells us how to (and how not to) make it happen for classical music peeps.

The Ugly Business Of Trying To Make Classical Music Cool: Paula Mlyn Talks To Amanda Ameer

How do you make Naxos (aka the Hyundai of classical music) cool?

The woman in charge of this insanely difficult mission, Paula Mlyn, just spake to Amanda Ameer (of Life's A Pitch) about everything you might possibly want to know about the impossible business of pitching classical music to a mostly unwilling public and media.

"Amanda, are you really going to ask me that old question about Naxos cover art?"

(Which is a bit like George W. Bush saying, "are you really going to ask me that old question about Iraq"?). Defensive statements about the superlame cover art aside, the interview is really really interesting. OC's two cents? Might as well go (link not safe for work) the Calvin Klein, NSFW way (link not safe for work).

Vote Early And Often For Opera Chic

The readers of cool-as-Fonzie Amanda Ameer from ArtsJournal's "Life's a Pitch" have been so generous as to nominate Opera Chic for "Best Overall Classical Music Coverage in a Blog or Newspaper".

Now go over there and overall vote for operachic.typepad.com

Opera Chic -- who has much, much better hair than that awful Illinois man -- is also raising funds to buy this thing outright; OC takes PayPal. Email for more info.