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  • marshiemarkII: My carisssssissimo Cocky your comments are not only always welcome, but actually we miss them as... 4:16 PM
  • Batty Masetto: And I loved it in the HD when she jumped his bones in the wheat field. Funny and sweet. 3:56 PM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor: Don’t cry Camille. Leonie is locked in our hearts and the joy she gave us is eternal. We... 3:36 PM
  • oedipe: Oh, there is no embarrassment or convoluted story here, just the way living languages tend to evolve.... 3:35 PM
  • alejandro: I had no real problems with Elisir … yeah, some of the Risorgimento stuff was wrong. As well as... 3:14 PM
  • Camille: Well, thank you so much QPF, so that others may witness that final love feast but I am once more crying... 3:13 PM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor: The future is now! The first horn player is really into it. httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v... 2:59 PM
  • marshiemarkII: CammiB, in fact the stories do not refute each other at all. It’s perfectly plausible that... 2:53 PM

Point and shoot

Meet parterre’s new tutelary spirit, tenor August Schram, star of Metube. Read more »

Glücklich zu sehen, je suis enchanté!

Tenor Nikolai Schukoff (recently Parsifal in the Lyon production) displays so much furry semi-nudity on his web site that the page should be called “Otter Space.”

boots and saddles

It’s the Brokeback Ballet from Krzysztof Warlikowski‘s production of Yevgeny Onegin! Read more »

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retro regie

Some commenters are more perceptive than others when it comes to the game of Name That Regie. In our previous competition, the quick-witted keithmc and the more cautious Ginevera were both correct: the opera is Cherubini’s Medée, in a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski for La Monnaie. The “Amy Winehouse” sorceress in the black pleather sheath is Nadja Michael. (La Cieca is sure you will recall that M. Warlikowski was also the auteur of one of our first and most puzzling Regiequizzes last year.) Now, on to new business. What’s this opera?

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