Our Own Betsy (seen at left in an “unretouched” photo) declares, “Good evening, horror-lovers, and welcome to Tales from the Box.  This is your Olde Box-Keeper with a gruesome fewsome to feed your screamin’ Mimìs.  Tonight we pay tribute to the upcoming prima at the Met of Fausit, in which an old man pays for a roll in the hay with the village virgin by spending eternity listening to a drippy tap in the next apartment.”  

11:00-2:15 LRT KLASIKA: MITRIDENTALDATE from Munich — 3 F.K. — Listen to Barry Banks without novocaine!

11:00-1:00 NRK KLASSISK : A Gerald Finley rectal — 2 F.K. Amateur proctology is all the rage in the Home Counties, right, Vicar?

1:00-3:00 CONCERTZENDER: Wilhelm de Fesch’s JOSEPH — No data to rate.  Potiphar’s wife wouldn’t be so bad if she had a little less phar in her pot.

1:00-5:00 FRANCE MUSIQUE: DECAPULETI E I MONTECCHI from Lyon — 3 F.K. Any more of Evelino Pido’s conducting and you’ll be praying for the blade to fall.

1:00-4:00 NRK KLASSIK and NRK P2: Tchaikovsly’s VOYEVODA — No data to rate.  Voy has lost his Voda, and must face the hostility in the village toward the vodaless.

1:00-5:00 RADIO CLASSICA DE ESPANA: Glinka’s RUSTMAN AND CAMILLA – No data to rate.  A dedicated Parterre-poster and her never-ending struggle against deteriorating metal.

1:00-5:00 RTP ANTENA 2: MAN AND LET’S GO – Met, March 23, 1968 — 1 F.K. Marriage to a restless wife proves to be Hell on Earth for a terminal tarrier.

1:00-5:00 VPR, WCLV: PETER GRINDER from Houston — 3 F.K. Not content with ball-busting, Ellen Orford ratchets it up a notch.

1:00-4:30 WETA: TANNHOWSER from Bayreuth, 2011 — 4 F.K. Neil Patrick “Doogie” Harris will never live this one down.

1:00-4:30 WCFL, KBIAZ, WABE: THE FLAYING DUTCHMAN from ROH — 4 F.K. A serial hog-butcher in old New York.
1:00-4:30 WFMT Network: TOSSCAP from Houston — 2 F.K. Annapolis graduates have to assume the identity of the person whose hat they get back.

2:00-4:30 CESKY ROZHLAS VLTAVA: MOSCA – Met, 1962 — 1 F.K.  The tempestuous Roman diva is replaced by the servant guy from Volpone, causing great consternation in the Super Str8 Baron Scarpia.

2:00-4:30 DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR: THE TURN OF THE THUMBSCREW — 2 F.K. The conductor chooses rrreeeaallll ssllllooowww tempi so that you have to listen to eeevvvrrryyyy note.

2:00-6:00 ESPACE 2: THE MIKADO from Chicago — 3 F.K. “Elliptical billiard balls” says it all.

2:00-6:00 KLARA: L’INFLUENZA DI TITO — 3 F.K. Colin Davis leads this production from Orange, arranged for theorbo and catarrh.

2:00-7:00 LYRIC FM: WHETHER from ROH — 4 F.K.   “Will Villazon make it through it, or will he explode?”

2:00-5:00 RADIO CLOVENIA TRETJI: THE MAKROPULOS CASKET from Florence — 2 F.K. Cooped up in a very small place with Angela Denoke.

2:00-5:30 RADIO STEPHANSDOM: WILLIAM TAIL — 3 F.K.  An arrow in the ass is a helluva way for a father to behave.

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