[Can the Count please not come knocking. ‘kay? – Golda Schultz (Contessa) and Samantha Hankey (Cherubino) in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”, Zurich 2019. – Photo Credit: Toni Suter, T+T Fotografie, for Zurich Opera]
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Are there even other characters in this opera. Right now, there aren’t.
Queer Lorgnette 
there never were other characters 😉 Except Susanna, for the obvious threesome that even DaPonte and Mozart acknowledged.
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Obviously!!
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This is all I need today THANK YOU
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9.6 out of 10. On the Richter scale. I may not breathe for a long time.
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Almost enough to distract me from the Zurich invitation to a very special Nabucco gala performance with Domingo. Well, I will not be posting photos of that.
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Wikipedia notes that “some scholars believe that Nebuchadnezzar may be a derogatory pun used by the Israelites, meaning ‘Nabu, protect my jackass.'” Or perhaps,
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Assyriology never gets enough credit.
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