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Is it just me, or is Daniel Barenboim looking more and more like Gollum every day?


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If I may be so bold, asshole: contemporary opera with an out-of-left-field sense of humor.

She makes a double life.  She makes two from one and one.  She makes a perfect system of her day.  She makes it work…

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Je marche sur tous les chemins
Aussi bien qu'une souveraine
On s'incline, on baise ma main,
Car par la beauté je suis reine!
Je suis reine!
Mes chevaux courent à grands pas.
Devant ma vie aventureuse,
Les grands s'avancent chapeau bas…
Je suis belle, je suis heureuse!
Je suis belle!
Autour de moi tout doit fleurir!
Je vais à tout ce qui m'attire!
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It’s been a while (like, thirteen years) since I’ve seriously listened to any Wuorinen, so I’m not sure how I feel about this yet.  The extension of the trend of turning films into musicals/operas is getting a bit old.  Of course, this particular bit of news hits the press on Wuorinen’s eightieth birthday…

From Reuters via Queerty:
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How can Netflix call something that wasn’t even recorded until this year a 2006 release?

I’m renting it tomorrow even though I’m watching it on TV right now and Dory’s recording it on the DVR, because I’m geeky that way.

Audra McDonald’s top octave is not something I hear much.  Strange sounds.  Not bad, just unfamiliar.

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