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  • CruzSF: The Underground City tour is interesting and fun, too. Might be overpriced at this point, but you’ll... 9:22 PM
  • Bianca Castafiore: When I visited Victoria, BC, I enjoyed it very much. It’s a very pretty place, but on... 9:22 PM
  • Bianca Castafiore: Is a Ring over 6 nights real tough on the orchestra, performers and audience? The Ring at the... 9:20 PM
  • derschatzgabber: I think the production team bears a lot of blame for over inflating expectations. Do you remember... 9:18 PM
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  • oedipe: Le grand maréchal? Il n’y avait aucun maréchal vivant en 1967. 9:08 PM
  • ducadiposa: Fiset got great reviews when she sang Manon recently at the Paris Opera in a production (first cast... 9:01 PM

Even smiling makes my face ache

Call it brio, joie de vivre, zest, élan vital, perhaps Lebenslust. You might even call it “fun.” But no matter what you call it, that’s not the mood Renée Fleming was in when she dropped in for lunch with Muse at Bloomberg.

So what’s the deal with the Dew Fairy?

And so in fact Renée Fleming, celebrated soprano, musical ambassador and riffmeister (known among the cognoscenti as “La Esilarante”) has followed through with her announced plan to collaborate with Chicago’s celebrated Second City comedy troupe, all in the name of opera reach-around, uh, outreach. Read more »