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  • Buster: Our Vienna correspondent writes on the 11th of this month: Our compatriot Elisabeth Ohms, currently... 1:00 AM
  • zinka: Pour moi, the jaded one, this season I was pleased to welcome into my mind some new sopranos, heard for... 12:56 AM
  • marshiemarkII: My darlings manoucita and Bianchisssima, la Duquesa’s word is as good as gold, so the prize... 12:49 AM
  • marshiemarkII: My adored CammiB, and don’t you think we cause enough trouble already here with the pair... 12:45 AM
  • Camille: That Les Adieux de Marie Stuart is one of Meyerbeer’s best arias, QPFster! Thanks for posting it. 12:25 AM
  • Buster: Thanks a lot, Cocky, had not seen any of those! 12:13 AM
  • Camille: Bianca, is that not from Munich from last year or so? I am not really sure so you’d best ask... 12:07 AM
  • zinka: I enjoy the repartee..By the way, some elements of singing bother certain of us..For me the... 11:18 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.

Evil mutants

“Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today that the respected stage, film and television actor Patrick Stewart will co-host The Second City Guide to the Opera on Saturday, January 5 with internationally renowned soprano and Lyric Opera creative consultant Renée Fleming…. Fleming will perform with live musical accompaniment, and both she and Stewart [pictured] will share emcee duties and appear in satirical vignettes.” [Broadway World]