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  • Henry Holland: Hahahaha. 12:58 PM
  • Enzo Bordello: Bill: Thank you for your tribute to DFD’s Rigoletto. I listened to it again a day or two... 12:55 PM
  • arepo: Mighty impressive. Bravo! 12:54 PM
  • Cocky Kurwenal: Ghena Dimitrova in Roberto Devereux – remarkable: httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=P... 12:35 PM
  • Hans Lick: … p.s. Very Eurovision, that Tannhauser, eh what? 12:33 PM
  • willym: Bill: They just announced next year’s Whitsun Festival opera will be Norma and Ceci is also singing... 12:32 PM
  • Hans Lick: … unless it’s Tannhauser: 1) Landgraf Hermann judges the song contest. Tannhauser k.o. in... 12:32 PM
  • Hans Lick: So obvious: Parsifal! 1) As wounded Amfortas listens, Parsifal (or is it Gurnemanz?) looks over the... 12:30 PM

What happens in San Francisco stays in San Francisco

brewer_isolde“It is in the Wagner repertory that Ms. Brewer has truly frustrated her fans. She has sung Isolde magnificently, though so far only in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s ‘Tristan Project,’ which used Bill Viola’s videos, while Ms. Brewer and the other lead singers performed as in a concert, with music stands and vocal scores.” [NYT]

116 comments

  • Clita del Toro says:

    On the other hand, who would drink a can of Coke or other soft drink knowing that it contains fifteen teaspoons of sugar. YUCH! Pas moi!

  • Clita del Toro says:

    Oops, sorry, it’s more like 10 teaspoons–my math was off, but I think there is a lot of the high fructose stuff in there. Still who would want to eat 10 teaspoons of sugar of any kind.