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11:32 pm Motss Con XVI

09:54 pm Faking it on TLC - 1 comment

11:50 am Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - 1 comment

02:19 pm The invention of a dehumidifier - 1 comment

04:25 pm View North to Ipswich Bay from Sunset Hill

08:01 pm The first cherry tomato was ready to eat - it's a Sungold - 6 comments

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quemadmodum
19 May 2020, 21:41
Met Opera Broadcasts
I remember seeing (television) Sellars's take on Nozze di Figaro and I was so angry that I had to walk out of the room. The truly disgusting staging of Cherubino's "Non so più" with him/her in hockey…
rsc
19 May 2020, 19:26
Met Opera Broadcasts
Peter Sellars is responsible for that as he is for so much of what's wrong with operatic staging nowadays.

I hadn't thought about it that way, but I'm glad to find somebody who hates Sellars' opera…
quemadmodum
19 May 2020, 18:33
Met Opera Broadcasts
Don't recall the cast for this Lohengrin--Oh, just checked. Not a big fan of Peter Hoffmann although visually he's always nice....
I am a big fan of opera seria but I know it's not everyone's…
rsc
19 May 2020, 18:23
Met Opera Broadcasts
We skipped Werther; I frankly don't care for it much. Yes, we did Idomeneo, which I really don't know (unlike the da Ponte operas). Some other staging oddities: I suspect that a lot of the time…
quemadmodum
19 May 2020, 17:33
Met Opera Broadcasts
Bartoli is a horror no matter what she does. I hope you got to see the "Werther" with my beloved Simon K. in the title role and "Idomeneo" yesterday...even with some really stupid staging that made…