Sneer and sneer again
Separated at smirk: base George Sanders and bass René Pape.
this divo looks like that divo
Separated at the Baxter Building
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.”
Separated at smirk
“Acciaio Azzurro, Ferrari, La Tigre: sono tutti la stessa faccia!”
I separated… I said
Nicely readable profile of Jonas Kaufmann in the Wall Street Journal today, but how come it’s illustrated with a drawing of Neil Diamond?
Separated at scruff
“Hans Sachs was a shoe- / Maker and a Wainwright too?”
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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?
Separated at cuff
Juan Diego Flórez and Jerry Seinfeld compete to decide who has the puffiest shirt of them all.
to boldly go where many have gone before
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?
smokin’!
Erogenous Erwin Schrott is the subject of a newly-launched Decca artist site publicizing his new CD, due for release July 22. And speaking of twins, did La Cieca mention that Mr. Schrott was separated at birth from Jonathan Rhys-Meyers? Though, of course, the always independent OperaChic has her own ideas of who’s the Doppelgänger.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).