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One down, three to go
Is tonight the night Fricka backs off? The night Sieglinde stops asking questions which will get Siegmund killed? The night the Wälsungs live happily ever after? Probably not, and I guess that would...
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Waffenlos in Seattle
Photo: Elisa Bakketun/Seattle OperaWe need to talk about Wotan. Yes, again. Hey, it might be years until I have another chance to see the mighty Greer Grimsley in action (as usual, the scheduling...
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Seattle: The Second Half
I have no excuse for waiting a whole month to blog about Seattle Opera's Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. I don't delude myself that the whole interwebs pining for my excited take on things; but yapping...
View ArticleThe Ring in 2.5 Minutes
Please forgive the self promotion. I recently supplied the words for this video from the Sydney Symphony: a two-and-a-half minute summary of the Ring, narrated at warp speed by Matthew Backer,...
View ArticleGod, the darkest hour
Another day, another shameless plug, this time for my other half. Here he is singing the first half of Florestan's "Gott! Welch' Dunkel hier"in English translation for the ENO, whose season of Fidelio...
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21 Reasons You Should Book for An Evening With Stuart Skelton & Friends in...
Read about the concert here, and about Stuart's reasons for making it happen here. If you've already booked, then I salute you! If you haven't, and you're in London and free this Thursday, this is my...
View ArticleOtello
Trading the grey and wet of Melbourne for twenty-four blessed hours of warmth and sunshine would, frankly, be reason enough for a flight to Brisbane, but you know me: I travel for singers, and I went...
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Now We Are Ten
Neither Carmen nor Manon would feature prominently, or indeed at all, in any of my operatic programming fantasies, and yet, until Peter Grimes opens (a couple of hours from now) they are the only...
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The Art of the Pick-Up
This is not dating advice. If you have designs on an opera singer, you're on your own. Sorry about that. (But good luck!) The kind of pick-up I have in mind is far more mundane, although, as it turns...
View ArticleWigmore Hallelujah
In truth, even I know that musical guilt is unnecessary – that rules are for fools – but I can't always prevent my scathing inner voice from reproaching me for not quite loving art song as much, or as...
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