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- H_Badger
  still reading - this just keeps getting more insane!
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  Change my mind about Jerome Hines · 15 minutes ago
- Don_Dan0
  WOW! Thank you for posting.
  
  Change my mind about Jerome Hines · 52 minutes ago
- oedipe
  Thank you for your report. Maybe I would have liked the performance more had I seen Breth’s staging, but over the air waves both leads and the conducting sounded leaden and uninspired. I agree that...
  
  Old wife’s tale · 52 minutes ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  Shaw is right but it's not that Wagner regressed. He had started out to write a single opera called Siegfrieds Tod that eventually became Götterdämmerung. But he realized that...
  
  Siegfried · 55 minutes ago
- grimoaldo2
  G B Shaw in his book The Perfect Wagnerite says that Wagner regressed to Grand Opera and abondened his reforms after his long break in composing the Ring. That is where he started composing the...
  
  Siegfried · 1 hour ago
- Satisfied
  Lovely review! Thank you!
  
  Sing of happy, not sad · 2 hours ago
- chicagoing
  Ana Maria Martinez's program of Spanish language classical song at the Ravinia Festival tomorrow night has been moved to a smaller venue and remaining balcony tickets are on offer for half...
  
  Change my mind about Jerome Hines · 2 hours ago
- Cornelia
  He’s sung there a few times. This was discussed previously but it sounds like he was upset when some starrier tenors were prioritized at Bayreuth and he didn’t want to sing Erik there. Frankly, I...
  
  Siegfried · 2 hours ago
- H_Badger
  no one meaningfully questioned his wealth. Until this May, when the first tranche of his largest gift yet, a $15 million donation to the Met Opera, didn’t go through. Forty-eight hours...
  
  Change my mind about Jerome Hines · 2 hours ago
- Matthew Byrd
  https://youtu.be/iPlKBzuNrbw?feature=shared
  Its time for The Met to bring back Il Trittico with Asmik pronto presto
  
  Change my mind about Jerome Hines · 2 hours ago
- DC K
  IMHO Wil Wheaton somewhat redeemed his appearances on Star Trek through his cameos on The Big Bang Theory.
  
  Change my mind about Jerome Hines · 2 hours ago
- Nothungs revenge
  Oh, nice were you at the concertgebouw as well (I was in the front row)? I tried to find it earlier and I think they removed it from youtube. And why is Clay Hilley not invited to Bayreuth?
  
  Siegfried · 3 hours ago
- H_Badger
  i'd need to think more about why the section after he discovers Brunnhilde doesn't work for me - mainly it just goes on and on without really going anywhere. Like he didn't know how...
  
  Siegfried · 3 hours ago
- Mr. Portafiori
  Looks great. Andrew Scott is an incredible actor.
  
  Change my mind about Jerome Hines · 3 hours ago
- Ask a librarian
  Thanks for your review! Happy Breth had a success with this - I love how she thinks and works.
  
  Old wife’s tale · 3 hours ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  I did not listen to this but I first heard the Mime, Ya-Chung Huang, in the concert Siegfried with Hilley, which is on yt. He’s very good in this role.
  
  Siegfried · 3 hours ago
- MisterSnow
  And Leontyne’s English has a definite hint of what I would call “upper class Southern black woman”. You could hear it in her interviews as well as when she sang spirituals as well as the Knoxvillle...
  
  Change my mind about Jerome Hines · 3 hours ago
- Ask a librarian
  Loved reading this, and I your research project sounds great too. Hope to read more about that here some time soon.
  
  Sing of happy, not sad · 3 hours ago
- irontongue
  which is to say, I'm glad you liked it!
  
  Change my mind about Regietheater · 3 hours ago
- irontongue
  Joshua was the SF Chronicle's classical reviewer from 1988 until he retired last year.
  
  Change my mind about Regietheater · 3 hours ago