White Shirt Monday: Line-Up

[This month, it has been five years since this (and five years and three months since the other one) and I have not forgotten about it. – Lenneke Ruiten (Aspasia), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Sifare) and Simona Šaturová (Ismene) in Mozart’s “Mitridate, ré di Ponto”, Brussels 2016.]

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White Shirt Monday: Smetux

[Now *that* is a tux to go with this aria. – Cythia Clarey (Smeton) in Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena”, New York City Opera, 1985.]

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White Shirt Monday: das weiß niemand / das ahnt keiner

[Things that will never get old, even if Marie-Theres’ is in a funk today: mezzos in tanktops. – Samantha Hankey (Octavian) in Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier”, Munich/Staatsoper 2021]

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White Shirt Monday: Musings

[Don’t mess with the muses, or one will smirk at you from atop a wine barrel, channeling von Otter ca. 1992: Alexandra Katurina (Nicklausse) and Lindorf (Andrew Foster-Williams) at the end of the new Homoki staging of Offenbach’s”Les contes d’HOffmann”, Zurich 2021]

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White Shirt Monday: Flower Delivery

[On the Street Where You Live Tobias Kratzer clearly said Trans Rights: Michèle Losier (Siebel) in Tobias Kratzer’s new staging of Gounod’s “Faust”, Paris/Opéra Bastille 2021]

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White Shirt Monday: Love is in the Air

[Springtime! April! Also: how to make an entrance. Emmanuelle de Negri (Amour) in Rameau’s “Platée”, Vienna/TADW 2020]

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