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  • Belfagor: Bizarre. Rimsky’s rather underwhelming ‘Tsar’ s Bride’, hopefully given a... 8:01 AM
  • Buster: A Traviata with Mara Zampieri. 8:00 AM
  • bang_bang_bang: Scala’s new season. As we all know, Traviata will open. Can’t believe they bought... 7:50 AM
  • Cocky Kurwenal: Very pleased to hear it re Nagelstad! I think she’s really excellent. 7:37 AM
  • Cocky Kurwenal: Noel, if I may stick my oar in, I would just like to say that I found Behrens’s voice to be... 7:27 AM
  • Cocky Kurwenal: Why is the knee jerk reaction to anything positive about Voigt the accusation that whoever wrote... 7:11 AM
  • Baltsamic Vinaigrette: shoegirl, did you pop along to the 600-seater RDS Library on Sunday evening to see the Met... 6:16 AM
  • Buster: Thanks, glad you got in without problems. 6:10 AM

to bis or not to bis

Who else but “Frantic” Franco Bonisolli?

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44 comments

  • Lucky Pierre says:

    speaking of vulgar, you guys are aware that the word comes from the volga river, and its barbaric tribe, the vulgar/bulgars, from which we got the word bugger (originally to imply a heretic, later, a sexual heretic). today, the country of bulgaria…

  • Keithmc says:

    What a wanker.

  • Thackeray Nomi says:

    Stella Barbare -- Barbara Hendricks was by far the most amusing and quick-minded soprano I ever met professionally.

    Behind that reserved exterior is a sharp brain and a quick, even sassy wit. Not the world’s greatest voice or interpreter, perhaps (though her Liu with Karajan is rather lovely), but one can understand why journalists who met her were so taken with her.

  • armerjacquino says:

    I think you mean ‘criterion’, harry, love.