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11:57 am A few more beasts near Victoria Falls

04:59 pm International Driving Permit pictures - 5 comments

11:27 am Birds along the Zambezi River - 1 comment

05:27 pm International Trips I have taken

12:03 pm Some Hippos in the Zambezi River - 2 comments

04:43 pm Met Opera Broadcasts - 7 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…