Donald K. Barbieri (born 18 November 1945), American businessman and politician, is Chairman of Red Lion Hotels Corporation, a position he has held since 1996. In 2004 he was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, running as a Democrat in the Fifth Congressional District of Washington. In the General Election, Barbieri lost to Republican Cathy McMorris, 39.98% to 60.1.%
Since 2004 Barbieri has served as chairman of the Spokane County Democratic Election Committee. A past Trustee of Gonzaga University, he lives in Spokane, Washington.
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“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)