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Happy birthday, darling Oscar.
I tried very hard to think of something wonderful, witty, and worthy of you, but all I came up with that seems to fit is;
I LOVE YOU.
I tried very hard to think of something wonderful, witty, and worthy of you, but all I came up with that seems to fit is;
I LOVE YOU.
Opera Tastes
Opera I Hate: Literally anything by Puccini. Pick one. I hate them all.
Opera I think is overrated: I think Das Rheingold is overrated and is a stepping stone to the absolutely wonderful Die Walküre.
Opera I think is underrated: Von Weber's
Der Freischütz
Opera I Love: Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea
Opera I Cherish: Mozart's Don Giovanni
Guilty Pleasure: Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie or Charpentier's David et Jonathas because apparently it's not cool to like French Baroque?
Opera I want to see revived: Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers or Zandonai's Francesca di Rimini
Opera that I first saw: Mozart's Die Zauber
Lyric's La Clemenza di Tito
I just got back from seeing Sir David McVicar's production of "La Clemenza di Tito" at the Lyric.
http://www.lyricopera.org/clemenza/
I'm a little incoherent so forgive me if my thoughts seem jumbled but here we go...
While "La Clemenza" doesn't hold nearly the special place in my heart that "Don Giovanni" (best music ever written imho) or Mozart's other operas do, I must say this was so worth seeing.
First off, what inconsistencies and difficulties there are with the plot and flow of the piece were more than made up for by the fact that there was not a weak link among the entire cast.
As Tito, Matthew Polenzani was indeed a joy, his ten
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Happy Birthday Oscar!
Happy birthday, Oscar. I love you as much today as I did when I first discovered your writing in high school. I always will. <3 <3 <3 <3
I'm celebrating with homemade absinthe cupcakes and champagne.
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I tried for an hour to write my feelings and just ended up writing "I adore your writing, Oscar, you're amazing <3"