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The organisers were very explicit in their promotional sales and marketing paraphernalia that this was not a full opera production but a concert performance ( Read more... )

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Tomorrow evening, one can only wish for an ensemble as such of this Don Giovanni at the 50th Anniversary of the re-opening of the Vienna State Opera. Ildiko Raimondi is supposedly on the cards, would it be too much to ask for Soile Isokoski too? After all, she will be here in November. And Edita Gruberova? Living proof that singing the Queen of ( Read more... )

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"I have no idea to this day what them two Italian ladies were singin' about... Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singin' about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared. Higher and farther than ( Read more... )

What's a wedding without a bridesmaid to share in the memories of the special day? Just confirmed ryanfoster as my bridesmaid for the 26th, albeit after some persuasion and not without some coercion. He can't complain... I'm only making him give a $50 ang-pow...

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Some people sit for hours in front of the fruit machines, feeding their dollar coins into the one-armed bandit, hopefully to hit the jackpot, only to realise the damage done at the end of the evening, with nothing to show for their time and effort ( Read more... )

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The nuptials are on Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 7:30pm.

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