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  • Camille: Blue–just so you know you are not the only one– my husband had some reservations about... 12:40 AM
  • mrmyster: Good God, Gertie! It sounds like the cast of Charles Busch’s “Die Mommie, Die” has... 12:40 AM
  • WindyCityOperaman: Born on this day in 1929 soprano Beverly Sills httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=zxBW r6GbqE0... 12:17 AM
  • parpignol: huge New York success for Stemme who is clearly going to be the great Straussian and Wagnerian soprano... 11:59 PM
  • Andie Musique: I kept thinking Welzer-Moet had just read Strauss’ injunction to the orchestra If you can... 11:43 PM
  • bluecabochon: CAST: Nina Stemme, Salome Jane Henschel, Herodias Rudolf Schasching, Herod Garrett Sorenson,... 11:35 PM
  • A. Poggia Turra: They should have gotten this one: httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=2bH8 q1SEHvQ 11:31 PM
  • Signor Bruschino: I was down in the orchestra and was surprised how well behaved the elderly set were this... 11:20 PM

rebirth of the regie

Those tiny Czech flags served as red flags for the keen-eyed public, several of whom correctly surmised that last week’s Regie quiz was a production of Prodana nevesta. (The “Mrs. Slocombe from Are You Being Served?” character is Kecal the marriage broker, in this production sung by a bass in drag.)

And what, my dears, is going on here?

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