Wagnerian Wednesday

[Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Elektra), Manuela Uhl (Chrysothemis), Berlin 2007. - Photo Credit: Barbara Aumüller/DOB]

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Tosca Tuesday

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White Nightshirt Monday: Munich – Madrid

[Anja Harteros as Elisabetta in the old, old Munich "Don Carlo" reading by Jürgen Rose, Munich 2012 (scroll down for queering)]

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White Shirt Monday: Foreign Affairs, II

[UFA star of the 1930s and 1940s, Zarah Leander, channeling a bit of Marlene D. - Photo Credit: unknown]

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Radio & Video Alert: Cesare vs. L’Elisir tonight

[Marie-Nicole Lemieux, clearly working up the fury for "Empio, dirò, tu sei". - Photo Credit: Naive/Virgin Classics, via forumopera]

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux strutting her stuff or Pavol Breslik strutting his?

18th or 19th century?

Tough questions for a Saturday night, as Radio France Music airs last year’s vocal feast of a “Giulio Cesare” from Paris, starting 7.08 p. m. GMT+1 (livestream access here), while the Bayerische Staatsoper, starting at 7 p.m. (GMT+1) video livestreams their “Elisir d’amore” in the David Bösch production with Pavol Breslik as Nemorino and Adriana Kucerová – last seen inexplicably not succumbing to the charms and arms of Malena Ernman’s Serse at Theater an der Wien – as Adina.

From Anik’s Kitchen: “Bolognesa” della casa (sugo al ragù)

With another weekend of uninterrupted cold rain ahead, there’s nothing more heartwarming and delicious than a big pot of sugo al ragù simmering on the stove, known everywhere but in Italy as “typically Italian” bolognese sauce, a supposed standard and classic of Italian cuisine.

White Shirt Monday: Foreign Affairs

[Angela Denoke channeling Fritzi Massary (and Zarah Leander!) with the Oscar Straus classic "Why shouldn't a woman have an affair?" at the 2011 Semperoper Year's End concert, Dresden 2011.]

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