White Shirt Diva

[I believe the appropriate comment would be "Hnnnnggg!". - Greta Garbo, photographed by Nickolaus Muray at MGM in summer of 1929. (click to enlarge) - Photo Credit: Greta Garbo - Das private Album. Berlin 2005, p. 87]

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Wagnerian Wednesday: “Das ist kein Mezzo!”

[Catherine Naglestad (Brünnhilde) in Wagner's "Siegfried", upon realizing a glitch in the waberlohe matrix - why did a tenor get through and not a mezzo, despite the description reading that only someone of bravery and defying convention (duh, obviously  a White Shirt mezzo) could break through the ring of fire?! - Munich 2012]

Regarding “Troubled Passage”, Chapter 31

[artwork by Rykoe]

Chapter 31 was supposed to be done Saturday night, then Sunday, then Monday… Ugh. Now it’s Wednesday already and while I manage to write a bit every night, I don’t think I’ll be done before Friday. So this chapter sort of auto-delayed itself by a week. I didn’t think it would, hence the lack of an earlier reader service announcement.

White Shirt Monday: Double Suit

[BROTP: Franziska Gottwald (Sesto) and Adriana Bastidis Gamboa (Annio) in Uwe-Eric Laufenberg's production of Mozart's "La clemenza di Tito" for Opera Cologne, Cologne 2011]

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Once More, With Feeling

[campaign version of the "black shirt sleeves" Bartoli Norma shot (for a bigger version, click the image) - Photo Credit: the WhiteShirt friendly Marketing Dpt. of Decca]

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