Artaserse isn’t La Cage aux Folles. At all.
By now, I think every review about Artaserse and the performance in Nancy has been published, and to my knowledge, there wasn’t a single reviewer who really picked on one specific aspect of the production. This either means that what I am about to write is hilariously far-fetched, or others shared my own concerns: I wanted … Read more
Stage presence, or what’s the BMI got to do with it?
This post on tumblr was too good to not comment on it, and, as usually, my reply got a little longer. How to summarize? “Do appearances matter in a singer, or would Netrebko be yet better with a thigh gap?” auntiespaz: donna-elvira: Let’s just get this away with first: Anna Netrebko is one of my … Read more
The Bechdel Test, Baiting, Or Why I Hate “Sex and the City”
Firstly, let me say how proud I am, and a little intimidated as well by Lydia’s great interview of Margarethe von Trotta. (Proud for the sole reason that I feel deeply satisfied when good people get an opportunity. It fills me with hope, for mankind, and I want to explicitely include females here in the … Read more
Rape, Gilda, or what’s in a name
I just had a very thoughtful post on my Tumblr dash, with the taunting title “Was Gilda Legitimately Raped: What We Talk About When We Talk About Operatic Relevancy.” So I will just toss in my two cents there. Give the original post a read; it is highly recommendable. I may quote: If we recognize that … Read more
Books are sexy
I feel I toyed enough with the trigger to the apocalypse already over at a Facebook page I manage, so I will post this here: We were balancing along the topic of sex toys, having found an article that indicated they could be used for relaxing singers’ vocal cords – and now I found this. … Read more
Listen to Händel – You know you want it
What do stage hypnosis performances, motivational coachings, BDSM-scenes and music have in common? It might be more than you think. (Just to state this in advance: By no means do I consider myself an expert on any of those fields. Only in music does my knowledge exceed the basics.) I hit on the idea that … Read more
PHP is not sexy
Remember the “Unix is sexy” t-shirt? Legend – a friend of mine had it. However, of course it has a double meaning, because Unix is somehow … concise? It has a certain charm, I have to admit. And then, there’s PHP. Maybe it’s just my lack of programming skills that cause me to fail to … Read more
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 27,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 6 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.
Care Selve
The “Care selve” is one of the sweetest, even cheesiest pieces Händel ever wrote. Yet, because it is Händel, and he was a genius, it is far more than Kitsch, even if pulls every string to cause a piece to go straight to one’s heart. It is part of the Pastorale “Atalanta”, written for a … Read more
D’un sventurato amante …
I wanted to do some normal stuff tonight, really, like watching a few episodes of “Castle,” maybe, or indulge in NSFW-material – but no, I got stuck on music. Händel’s “Pena tiranna,” most specifically. I fell in love with that aria long ago; my first recording of it was James Bowman’s version with the King’s … Read more
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