Sunday, June 07, 2020

Natalie Dessay-very fresh and lovely soprano--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spS4v6guHHc

But this version is over-staged and I don't understand some of the props, not sure the "body doubles" add anything.

Anyway, you can decide for yourself.

6-7-2020

Special Friday Night post--Robert Graves' I Claudius--just beautiful--poetic--because written by a poet

who needed money. Derrick Jacobi as Claudius, the Roman Emperor. The Voice--narrated in the first person, is unmistakeably Graves'--has ...