Alleluia! He is risen! I can’t give you darkness and candles being lit one by one to light the darkness, but I did find a lovely version of the Exsultet online. It’s a little more elaborate than the ones I’ve…
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New favourite mezzo soprano
I’ve been mainlining Shakespeare-themed operas all weekend, and have had the Chanson de Stéphano from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette in the brain all evening. I figured I’d find a proper version to listen to, and found this one, which is…
Friday Fun: Rude Mozart
… because even I have certain qualms about putting rude words in German into the title of my page. I have a rather wonderful picture book called Faithfully Mozart (currently buried behind stacks of boxes), which is more or less his…