All these years La Cieca has complained that nobody would write an operatic version of Valley of the Dolls, and what do you know? Monteverdi already did it almost 400 years ago. The controversial “Voglio una bambola! Voglio una bambola!” scena follows the jump.
Alternate explanation: Deutsche Grammonphon and Anna Prohaska have lost their fucking minds.
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