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It has finally occured to me that the thought of complete strangers (or, even worse, family!) reading this journal somewhat frightens me.

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R I P Rostropovich

4 Anna Netrebko recording
4 Rolando Villazón recording
1 Figaro & Susanna


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...is that Le nozze di Figaro is actually 220 years old. This had not occured to me. I am slow like that. This morning I woke up and realized, zomg! Figaro and company have been confusing characters and audience alike for 220 years! Now who would've thought of that!


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16 Le nozze di Figaro from the Salzburger Festspiele 2006
{because I still cannot grasp how much I love this Ibsen/Strindberg-esque production.}


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1 Maria Callas
2 Vintage fashions
2 Vivien Leigh as Anna Karenina
1 Anna Moffo as Violetta
1 Anna Netrebko as Musetta
3 Don Giovanni
6 Lucia di Lammermoor
1 Villazón/Netrebko
2 Roméo et Juliette


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