Me, snoozing through the Liceu season announcement: TurandotCavPAgAida CarmenLohengrinGODhowadventurous WaitDidAnnaNewlyGoBlondForThatPhoto OhIt’sNotHer IThink BarbiereAndAlcioneOkayzzzzzzzzz…
And then! “Choose your 2020 ticket – JDD/Iervolino or Papatanasiu/d’Oustrac?”
Okay, Epidaurus Festival of 2019, you have my attention – Papatanasiu singing Alcina again! July 6th & 7th. And Petrou conducting and…staging, apparently?
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[Curtain Call: Adrian Timpau (Nardo), Rebeca Olvera (Serpetta), Kenneth Tarver (Il Podestà), Margarita Gritskova (Ramiro), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Arminda), Mauro Peter (Belfiore) and Rosa Feola (Sandrina). Also, a whole lot of foam. – Feb 24th, 2019, Opera Zurich]
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[It’s late February. Even on stage, there is not enough sun or even daylight. But then again, there is this instead. – Myrtò Papatanasiu (Sifare) and Patrica Petibon (Aspasia) in Mozart’s “Mitridate, re di ponto”, Paris/TCE 2016.]
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[I sense a #TeamElvira theme here. And just in time for Pride Month! Also, this dress has been bodily lifted off of Eleonora Buratto’s Amsterdam Contessa, more or less. – Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Elvira) in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”, Geneva 2018. — Photo Credit: Carole Parodi for the Grand Théâtre Genève]
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#screaming.
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(somewhere, someplace, the universe is cackling evilly)
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