When friends and family told operatic soprano Rose Guccione how much they loved hearing her diva voice sing “Happy Birthday” – just for them – she founded OperaGram.com™ with the idea of bringing joy to more people.
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When friends and family told operatic soprano Rose Guccione how much they loved hearing her diva voice sing “Happy Birthday” – just for them – she founded OperaGram.com™ with the idea of bringing joy to more people.
Surprise that special someone with a personalized greeting from an opera singer. Messages can be sent by phone, e-mail [...]
Don Woolf was a father, grandfather, therapist, cyclist and enthusiastically devoted member of The Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus.
Don came to me for voice lessons in February, 2004. We worked on vocal technique, musicianship, auditions, etc. But my favorite voice lesson was when he arrived dressed as Loretta Lynn to psych himself up for the talent show [...]
Howard, Happy Birthday!
from Rhoda, your dear wife,
Josh and Gabriel, your two sons.
Seems to me you’ve got quite a life.
You are turning seventy
And Gabe is twenty three
I’m not Mensa caliber
But see you’re virile, tee hee!
Maybe it’s your worldly tastes, let see:
You love your cigars Cuban, your drink Scotch
And travel, and travel the world.
Now you go to [...]
Josh is shy about birthdays, often erasing the event from the company calendar every year. This makes him a PERFECT candidate for an OperaGram.com™ in Person!
Josh’s colleagues held a little birthday breakfast and had me show up. With a really bad Nordic accent, my intro went kind-a like this:
“Well… Happy Birthday, Josh. You don’t call, [...]
Shortly after Robert K. Elder’s article was published in the Trib a couple of months ago, I was contacted by an administrator at a retirement community. While presenting recitals doesn’t fall under the scope of what OperaGram.com™ does, it does fall under what I’ve done over the course of most of my life: [...]
The Northeastern Illinois Norwegian Elkhound Association (http://www.neaa.net – search for NEINEA) hired OperaGram.com™ to sing the Canadian and American national anthems to open the Norwegian Elkhound Show at the DuPage County Fairgrounds!
Although I was prepared to sing the Québécois verse of “O Canada,” the organizers thought the English verse alone would suffice as most Canadian [...]
Oh! Happy Birthday Anthony!
from mother, who gave birth to thee.
Determined, hard-working and fun:
Oh, Tony you’re the perfect son!
From Ferris State you’ve come full circle.
Business degree in hand
you took job in New York-le
to work with Donna Karan.
This year you came back to the Midwest…
Columbus, yes, in Ohio.
To work with Ambercrombie and Fitch, the best
catalog I know.
And, [...]
Today “Carmencota” (meaning “Big Carmen” in Spanish) made her debut for Dr. “X.” The volunteer holding the camera was so excited we got wonderful video coverage of the water cooler, filing cabinets and carpeting. So, sorry, no real video is available to X. However, an excellent still was extracted from the video. Here is a [...]