In our next instalment of Dawn Marten's series "Best in Show", we meet a baritone’s long lineup of feathers and fur and two opera-loving dogs that drop everything to listen—they even like to sing along. If you have missed previous chapters of the series, you can read...
In the third instalment of Best in Show: Opera Pets, we meet a yodeling Chisenji, a pair of rambunctious Siberian Huskies and a gentle Tabby who can still defend her turf. If you missed the first or second chapters of "Best in Show: Canada's Opera Pets", you can read...
In this next instalment of her encounters with opera people and their pets, Dawn Martens meets dogs with a keen sense of fashion and looking good, hears tales of heritage chickens that came to a violent end, and ponders the reason why otherwise music-loving animals...
Mozart owned a horse, dogs and a flock of birds, including a starling that reputedly could sing a line from one of the composer’s piano concertos. Verdi shared his rural estate in Sant’Agata with dogs, peacocks, cats, parrots, pheasants and chickens; and the...