Tag: Oscar Wilde

Opera By The Book: UNC Opera Theater Presents Literary Season

UNC Opera Theatre presents its annual fall Chamber Opera Festival of two one-act operas, The Happy Prince by Malcolm Williamson and The Little Prince by Rachel Portman. Based on the children’s fables by Oscar Wilde and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the stories capture your heart! There are three performance days, October 13th and 14th at 7:30pm …

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Ready to Grow a Little?

Steve Goodier writes Your Life Support column in 50 Plus Marketplace News for northern Colorado seniors

“The trouble with resisting temptation,” says one woman, “is that it may never come again.” Hmmm…. Mark Twain noted that “there are several good precautions against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.” And poet W. B. Yeats said this about those ever-present allurements: “My temptation is quiet.” It’s true. They so often sneak up on …

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Ready to Grow a Little?

Steve Goodier writes Your Life Support column in 50 Plus Marketplace News for northern Colorado seniors

“The trouble with resisting temptation,” says one woman, “is that it may never come again.” Hmmm…. Mark Twain noted that “there are several good precautions against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.” And poet W. B. Yeats said this about those ever-present allurements: “My temptation is quiet.” It’s true. They so often sneak up on …

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