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: Original Garden Knight

[FORMATIVE EMO GLARE. Also: the shirt-vest-sword combo.- Annika Skoglund (Ramiro) in Mozart’s “La finta giardiniera”, Drottningholm 1988]

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White Shirt Monday: French Garden Knight

[White Knight: Marie-Claude Chappuis (Ramiro) and Marie-Adeline Henry (Arminda) in Mozart’s “La finta giardiniera”, Lille 2014]

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White Shirt Monday: Goth Garden Knight

[Iconic Emo Knight: Ruxandre Donose (Ramiro) in Doris Dörrie’s DIY Garden Section staging for the Salzburg Festival, Salzburg 2006]

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White Shirt Monday: Butch Glory

[“Now is the month of Maying, it’s time to start a bar fight…” – Charlotte Hellekant (Oreste) and Maria Streijffert (Filotete) in Handel’s “Oreste”, Berlin/KOB 2006.]

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White Shirt Monday: Sole-Searching

[I case you’ve ever wished for young Annick Massis and Julie Andews Diana Montague to fall in love over some misplaced shoes to a Rossini score, search no more. (You have, you just didn’t know it yet). – Annick Massis (Adèle) and Diana Montague (Isolier) in Rossini’s “Le Comte Ory”, Glyndebourne 1995]