All Time Coloratura

As pointed out in her latest post, “sometimes blogs lead to good things.” This in reference to All Time Coloratura (alltimecoloratura.wordpress.com) blogger Cecily’s recent hiring as Social and Interactive Media Coordinator for the Canadian Opera Company, but the principle passes both ways: a good blog opens doors onto unfamiliar subjects and brimming dialogues of alien vocabularies. Words like “libretto” and, erm, “Coloratura,” begging for an afternoon spent on Wikipedia.

Opera is not a genre we spend much (read: any) time with here at CMG, but it is one about which I spent a few engrossed hours reading once stumbling across this blog. That’s because All Time Coloratura is written with the same infatuation and humor to which we’ve become accustomed while trolling the blog rolls. I find particularly refreshing how the writing possesses the same self-awareness—a willingness to examine every facet of the discussion itself—so common to the blog format. There are posts about the joys of opera on vinyl, about the maddening longevity of the notion of an “opera crowd” and accessibility (or lack thereof), about the blog writer’s own credibility in relation to that accessibility (or lack thereof), about how best to experience watching opera, a hilarious post about what dangerous ninnies romantic male leads tend to be, and, of course, as in every other facet of our culture, Lady Gaga.

If a good blog infuses a vacuum with the personal, documents and examines mistakes as much as expertise, then All Time Coloratura is a very good blog. To be enjoyed on its own merits as much as the material with which it is itself fascinated.