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  • Clita del Toro: OT: Riccardo Massi, tenor. This tenor will sing Rhadames lat...
  • Feldmarschallin: Here more in todays paper on the ongoing Gruberova saga. Ai...
  • Ilka Saro: Thank you so much! I am going to get it.
  • brooklynpunk: uh oh.... this doesn't sound very promising.....http://...
  • oedipe: Indiana,Thanks for the link to The Atlantic artic...
  • phoenix: I only saw Indra Thomas once -- in an opera I don't care for...
  • Often admonished: She's more than promising, it seemshttp://www.theartsde...
  • Often admonished: How many should just stick to Leporello?
  • oedipe: P.S. Better yet:“Ceci n’est pas une pipe; c’est une bra...
  • Iphigénie: According on a post on a french forum, Natalie Dessay said o...

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That is what fiction means

scotto_thumb“As beautiful as her singing was, [Renata Scotto] never was much of an actress.” — Lotfi Mansouri: An Operatic Journey

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Out of ordure

Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera, via Fresno BeeRay Dull of Fresno, who recalls in the 1940s hauling manure as a teenager on his family’s Ohio farm as he listened to the Met’s Saturday radio broadcasts, understands the appeal of being up close in the movie theater.” [The Fresno Bee]

And then La Cieca clicked “close tab”

“The answer, he decided, was obvious: an opera. In typical Burning Man fashion, as he was standing in line at the port-a-potties, describing this epiphany to…” [CNET]