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  • willym: well I just talked to the spouse – we looked at the programme again and decided this was a not to be... 2:18 PM
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  • Bill: Willym – the critics say 5 hours – apparently Bartoli sang all 8 of Cleopatra’s arias and... 1:55 PM
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Mystery? Science?

by | 7:25 pm | Apr 25, 2010

mst3kThis is post number 3,000 on parterre.com.

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Blue movie

by | 6:39 pm | Nov 21, 2009

ritter_blaubartFor those of us newly accustomed to watching The Met: Live in HD cinecasts and similar events in our neighborhood theaters, it is easy to forget that opera as cinema was once a very different experience. Ritter Blaubart, one in a series of seven films by Walter Felsenstein recently released on DVD, shows us the way it used to be — low-budget sets, highly managed direction, and the challenge of pairing up recording-studio singing with on-screen acting. Read more »

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method in the madness?

by | 6:19 pm | Apr 14, 2008

Dear Addison DeWitt once said, “You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point.” Actually he didn’t say it to La Cieca, but that’s neither here nor there. Since your doyenne is what you might call pathologically determined to see both sides of every questions, she’s going to reopen the can of worms here on the “disgusting” Ballo production that just opened in Erfurt. Read more »

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