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Shaggy weltstar tenor murmurs the haunting love theme from Gladiator.
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I can’t say it’s precisely my idea of Handel, but I’ve watched this clip at least a half dozen times!
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From the Vienna State Opera, featuring Olga Borodina in the title role.
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Just when you think opera has reached its peak and has nowhere else left to go, here is Anna Netrebko stabbing Scarpia in the dick with a crucifix.
Live video of Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov in the riddle scene from Turandot, as seen and heard recently in Munich.
In preparation for her much-awaited Met debut, Lise Davidsen sings the arioso from Queen of Spades.
Countertenor sensation Jakub Jozef Orlinski sings “Pena tiranna” from Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula.
Here’s a look at the genuinely sensational performance by Asmik Grigorian in a new Manon Lescaut in Frankfurt.
La Cieca has discovered a document of Plácido Domingo‘s faute de mieux Metropolitan Opera farewell performance.
The expression “gayer than eight guys fucking nine guys” gets thrown around a lot these days…
Jakub Józef Orlinski as Harry Potter!
She makes it into a mash-up of Cours-la-Reine and “A Great Lady Has An Interview.”
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