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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.