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110 comments

• rysanekfreak says:

  Dearest Mrs Claggart,

  Your Mara Z entry is beyond FABulous. We need a new adjective for it.

  I am looking forward to your next novel…”Mawrdew Czgowchwz Gets Gorgeouser.”

  on September 4, 2006 at 11:18 AM
• John says:

  If singers would sing as if they knew what the individual words mean, I think that that would be great progress. The libretto and the music should tell the singers what they need to know about a character. Singers might benefit from a little bit of historical research, but I don’t think that they really need to do much (or that many of them would do much research). Sets and costumes often bear little connection to historical accuracy, and many productions are “updated” to different centuries. An opera has to succeed on its own terms, not as a recreation of a novel or of history.

  on September 4, 2006 at 3:04 PM
• paddypig says:

  some other nick names for singers (in addition to Montsterfat Cowbelly)(I did not make these up)

  Drone Slumberland
  Lemontyne Pledge
  Dame Granite Baker
  Pigarotti
  Anna Tomato Sandwich
  Sylvester (troyanos)
  Frick and Frack (Caballe and Carreras)

  on September 5, 2006 at 12:12 PM
• Michael Farris says:

  “Sylvester (troyanos)”

  Okay, I’m stupid. I get the rest but I don’t understnad this one.

  on September 5, 2006 at 1:32 PM
• NYCOQ says:

  Sylvester was a black gay disco singer who sang in falsetto. I guess the reference has to do with the whole trouser role thing. He was a gender illusionist as well.

  on September 5, 2006 at 3:30 PM
• Michael Farris says:

  Okay, I actually (just barely) remember that Sylvester (I think I may have even had an album by him which I played exactly once) but thought it couldn’t be a reference to him.

  My favorite nickname on the list are Granite Baker (she’s just that exciting!) but Anna Tomato Sandwich is pretty funny too.

  on September 5, 2006 at 4:41 PM
• Daniel says:

  What about our own Maury d’onato – that one always makes me laugh- and the pic is perfect- deserves an award

  on September 6, 2006 at 6:43 AM
• Yniold says:

  Leonie Riesenshriek?

  on September 6, 2006 at 7:47 AM
• Greg White says:

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  Greg White

  on September 6, 2006 at 4:01 PM
• ljc says:

  All those singers on the pun list sang the music of Big Joe Green too.

  on September 6, 2006 at 5:19 PM