Consideration, planning ahead and even looking ahead are as relevant to Boston driving as classical opera training is to singing Karaoke. Here's where I should put in a disclaimer, except that I shouldn't. ...
blimix: Behind the wheel Buddhism

Venice, Classical Pursuits. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, plus the film Luchino Visconti made from the short novel and Benjamin Britten's opera, sets the stage for visiting the Italian city. The spellbinding city of Venice has ...
Mann's, Visconti's and Britten's Venice: Classical Pursuits Theme ...

I saw it at the Washington Opera and, while it is a beautifully staged production, the ending is very strange, not what Puccini intended. Marta Domingo has the heroine commit suicide by walking into the sea at the end of the opera. ...
Puccini: La Rondine | Classical Za

Jessica Duchen's classical music blog. Music and writing, with ginger, in London, UK; "It is very rarely that I find a new writer whose work I love so much." Katie Fforde on Hungarian Dances; "Everything she writes is worth reading" ...
Jessica Duchen's classical music blog: Namaste!