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- operalover9001: Eva-Maria Westbroek is also singing Fanciulla next season in Frankfurt. So excited to see it. 7:55 PM
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Cassandra: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Maybe they could get the delightful soprano Perez (as in Ailyn) instead.
At the end of Aknaten, wiating on line with the mother of a prominent diva, I asked what she thought.
She said “The man is a genius, a genius I tell you.
four notes and he made an opera.”
Them old girl stage mammas Knew from what they spoke.
>—-still laulghing!!!
Oh, Cassandra, your one-liner has cheered me up after the bile from a respected author on another thread.
So far Glass has given us operas about Gandhi, Colombus, and Akhnaton, so a Glass Disney could be a long thing with Scrooge McDuck sitting on his cash in his money bin and singing minimally about Values, while the Beagle Boys, Huey Dewey and Louie, and Magica deSpell explore the meaning of it all in C-E-A flat over and over.