Separated at smirk: base George Sanders and bass René Pape.
And all this time we’ve thought it was only Thomas Hampson‘s elevated opinion of his talent that led him to call himself “Mr. Fantastic.”
“Acciaio Azzurro, Ferrari, La Tigre: sono tutti la stessa faccia!”
Nicely readable profile of Jonas Kaufmann in the Wall Street Journal today, but how come it’s illustrated with a drawing of Neil Diamond?
“Hans Sachs was a shoe- / Maker and a Wainwright too?”
No, there never was an answer to that celebrated Lewis Carroll conundrum, but its inexplicability pales into insignificance next to the query sent in by loyal reader S.A.: why is Jack Black covering Bryn Terfel in the Met’s Ring?
Juan Diego Flórez and Jerry Seinfeld compete to decide who has the puffiest shirt of them all.
Achim Freyer‘s concept for the Wälsung twins in his LA Ring looks oddly familiar. Or is that Frank Gorshin doing his celebrated impression of Placido Domingo?