[One of these dudes is not like the others. – Michael Spyres (Hoffmann), Michèle Losier (Nicklausse) and members of the Liceu choir in Offenbach’s “Les contes d’Hoffmann”, Barcelona 2013. – Photo Credit: Liceu Barcelona]
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I can tell my level of gayness by the nanosecond timeframe it took me to to answer to the question “which of these dudes would you take out to dinner?” because obviously it is the dude who is a) no dude at all or b) not the cis kind of dude and c) The Mezzo ™ with The Stance ™.
In rather the way that a single face will leap out of a Dutch group portrait, yes indeed – That One.
Hoffmann looks to be giving Dr. Tulp’s Anatomy Lesson to a somewhat uninterested set of auditors. Have they perhaps heard this tale before? Or, by the postures, perhaps they are stuck at home together and are playing tour bus.
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Klein Zach as a bus driver: now there is a concept (not as good as the Dutch group portrait, thought).
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or as I should have said, following your snappy title, not tour bus, rather: Magic Schoolbus
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