[“Hello, tenors, I have come to take away your swashbuckle rep and your swagger. Also I have brought three likewise female pageboys in frills with questionable haircuts just because I can.” – Daniela Barcellona (Falliero) in Rossini’s “Bianca e Falliero”, Prague 2005]
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Continue reading “White Shirt Monday: Camp-a-nile”[Stop the clocks, Admiral Barcellona has entered the building. Or the ship. Or the collective consciousness of White Shirtery at large. – Daniela Barcellona (Tancredi) in Rossini’s “Tancred”, Valencia 2017 – Photo Credit: Tato Baeza]
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[Daniela Barcellona, singing “Gemo in un punto e fremo” from Pergolesi’s “Olimpiade”, wiht Concerto De’ Cavalieri & Marcello de Lisa, 2012. – Provided by YT’s auto-aggregate alogrithms]
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[kultur24 TV about the new Berlin/UDL “Falstaff”, March 2018 – in which we all are (or can empathize with) Barcellona’s/Quickly’s facepalm at straight romance as of 0:30]
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…so, about that new Berlin Staatsoper “Falstaff”.
(which seems to be situated around a Berlin Mitte club? At least the night-in-the-woods scene?)
[God, that grin, I swear. Also the uniform. All the uniforms on Barcellona. And all the coloratura and all the low notes and all the swaggerdoccio. Send help. Only please don’t send help. – Daniela Barcellona (Arsace) in Rossini’s “Semiramide”, Munich/Staatsoper 2017.]
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On the fifth Day of Christmas, the White Shirts sent to me:
One Butch Babylonian
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Continue reading “The Twelve White Shirts of Christmas, 2017 (5)”
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