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  • marshiemarkII: OK caro Noel, now that we have addressed the issue of size/volume, we should discuss dramatic vs... 1:26 AM
  • 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

A boozy short leave

After 23 years, the Queen of Carthage has finally made it to Manhattan. On Wednesday night, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival hosted the Mark Morris Dance Group’s acclaimed 1989 production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Rose Theater, and Morris who created the double role of Dido and the Sorceress for himself and danced it exclusively for over a decade was there–this time as conductor–with Stephanie Blythe singing the two roles from the pit as she had done last fall in Berkeley.   Read more »