Welcome to the White Shirt live comment thread for Handel’s “Alcina”, staged by Jossi Wieler & Sergio Morabito and conducted by Alan Hacker.
Cast Listing:
Alcina – Catherine Naglestad
Ruggiero – Alice Coote
Bradamante – Helene Schneiderman
Morgana – Catrona Smith
Oberto – Claudia Mahnke
Oronte – Rolf Romei
Melisso – Michael Ebbecke
Continue reading “The Stuttgart 1999 “Alcina” Liveblogging Thread”
The TCE season reveal 17/18 starts in twenty minutes!
I am abandoning all plans of a productive morning and am settling down in front of the screen with a glass of Scotch because I don’t have any French wine in the office.
Continue reading “The 2017/18 Season at Théâtre du Champs-Elysées”
I’ve been lowkey screaming about this since Dumaux mentioned he’d be Polinesso in a new Ariodante in Vienna in 2018.
This morning, I saw it in the Jeneusse opera season ticket plans annoucements.
Oh. My.
towanda just alerted me to the fact that Bayerische Staatsoper has as taken pity on our in some cases severely hiccuped Sunday night and is offering their “Semiramide” again, once more as a free stream (now on demand), all weekend long.
Exact time window: Sat., 9 a.m. (UTC+1) to Sun., midnight.
[Anja Harteros, “Ah, mio cor” – Handel’s “Alcina”, Vienna 2010. Clip with thanks to musicalpunchlines’s channel]
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It’s 3 p.m., and I’m still at the office, looking out into a decidedly gray afternoon. Yet in less than three hours, I’ll already be at the opera and will probably pinch myself and wonder how I got to be so lucky: The 2016 Vienna “Alcina” is finally upon us.
One of my favorite things to do is to make pasta. I like it better than watching TV or drinking tea or – well, not better than opera, but it comes close.
And right now is the perfect time to do it because the herbs are still standing high in their balcony flower boxes, yet the temperatures have cooled down enough to have “a batch of herb pasta with butter and parmesan to ward off the early autumn chill” sound really appealing.
Continue reading “From Anik’s Kitchen: Tagliatelle alle erbette”
Queer Lorgnette 