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Thursday 28 June 2007 | I like a cookie
Is Callas a ham or what. Still. This isn’t the recording of her “Una voce poco fá” with which I grew up (which is here, and worth watching just to see Callas acting like a blushing schoolgirl as she answers the curtain call, all “Oh my goodness, what was them sounds coming out my mouth?!”)—it’s [...]
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Thursday 28 June 2007 | I like a cookie
Last night the Brujo and I drove up to Tesuque in a fabulous thunderstorm to take in La bohème—the first time I’ve ever been to the SF Opera, the second time I’ve seen that particular opera, and the only opera I’ve ever seen live. What is it with me and Puccini? But I preferred this [...]
