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[tornamiadir]

Jonas Kaufmann, Sherrill Milnes, Rockwell Blake.

Get drunk with Rockwell Blake because he seems like a dark horse, marry Sherrill? Do Jonas? 

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them. No tag back. ( ´ ▽ ` )

Gosh, I know I once made a post saying I hadn't forgotten about this, but the fact is it did... get pushed to the back of my mind.  Here we go:

1.  My eyes are blue.

2. These eyes require glasses.

3. Despite the glasses, I still frequently walk into things.

4. I am currently...  what's the water equivalent of landlocked?  It's not cockblocked... I'm just going to put waterlogged.

5. I once confounded a small clot of tweens into thinking I briefly dated Yul Bryner.

6. When I was a child, I found what I thought was a sleeve of candy in the couch.  They turned out to the tablets of pigment used for dying easter eggs.  They are not palatable.

7. Do not eat crepe paper.  The results are similar to the dye tablets.

8. My nickname is Biggles, as in Cardinal Biggles, a Monty Python "Spanish inquisition" reference.  Bet you didn't expect that. Ha. Anyway. It's mostly for the "lulz", but as far as he's an ineffectual walking disaster, it is appropo.  Though I could as easily stake claim to Dennis Moore.  Moore's philosophical bent, his preference for horse travel, his vested interest in lupines, and general awkwardness.  However, I'm with Biggles as far as never having shot anyone.  So there's that.  Basically:  I go by Biggles, but you can call me Dennis if you want.

I need ten of these?  Are you sure?  Alright, here you go.

9. I'm a high ranking member of the western hemisphere chapter of the Illuminati

10.  I host the Biannual Illuminati bake sale.

As far as tagging people, if you are reading this consider yourself tagged -double finger guns in all directions-.  I can't bring myself to select and go to the asks of ten people, because I'm lazy.  LAY-ZE.  Oh, that could have been one of the ten.  Oh well, not going back now.  Because lazy.  And I couldn't possibly choose or slight.  That one is because I'm nice.  

[tornamiadir]

Do you possibly have a link to a good version of the flying dutchman? Thank you. =].

OK I wasn't sure whether you meant video or recording or what so here's EVERYTHING I COULD FIND 

 - This is a playlist of a production from Bayreuth with Matti Salminen (and take a look at the rest of this guy's channel, he has a lot of other full productions of Wagner)

 - This is the audio from Bayreuth in 1942 *vintage*

 - This is a full production video by the Prague Touring Opera Company...i dunno

 - Here's a nice studio recording with Wunderlich and Fischer-Dieskau

 - aaaaand here's a load of bootlegs with various casts:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 

 - and some videos, I don't know how well they'll work once you download them but the casts look quite good

1 2 3 4

enjoy :D

[confessionsofahistorygeek]

This Dandy would have loved to go back in time to the era of classical music, meet Mozart and play a Sonata for four hands with him on piano.

[opera-a-week]

Bryn Terfel week!

This week we're featuring the very brilliant, very Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel (suggestion from thebardisapoet, thank you)!

Please submit videos or pictures if there's anything you don't want missed out :)