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  • Camille: That reminds me; an old (boy)friend was a member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. He was there at rehearsal... 3:56 PM
  • Camille: I took a little nap during your cuppa tea, oolong of course, O mighty principe di Persia! 3:38 PM
  • luvtennis: My dearest Amneris/Clita: Been missing you and your sacro fuoco of feistiness! 3:37 PM
  • Bianca Castafiore: poopy, please mind your own kwebekwa politicos, and stop making stupid off-topic comments. 3:36 PM
  • luvtennis: “fernem̶ 1;??? 3:35 PM
  • luvtennis: Excuse me, Papopera. What exactly do you think our President can do? You realize that the littel song... 3:34 PM
  • DonCarloFanatic: Yes, as others have mentioned, it’s time for Anna to move away from the young girls’... 3:28 PM
  • kashania: I quite liked Levine’s reading of the Schubert “Great” ;. He really emphasized the... 3:27 PM

When you’re good to Fabio

A press release reads, in part: “The preeminent Italian conductor Fabio Luisi [not pictured], who holds top posts at the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna Symphony, begins his appointment as music director of the Zurich Opera at the start of the 2012-13 season. . . . Among conductors on the roster whom Luisi personally invited to be part of his first Zurich season are Marc Albrecht (Tannhäuser), Ivor Bolton (Rinaldo), Teodor Currentzis (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Riccardo Frizza (La scala di seta), Eivind Gullberg Jensen (Rusalka), Patrick Lange (Abduction from the Seraglio), Thomas Rösner (Così fan tutte), Ulf Schirmer (Parsifal), Robin Ticciati (Don Giovanni), and Keri-Lynn Wilson (La traviata).”