Back from a beautiful performance of Puccini’s heart-wrenching and wonderfully passionate Tosca at the Royal Opera House in London. Couldn’t help myself from sharing a piece of this musical treasure.
Pavarotti singing ‘E lucevan le stelle’ as Mario Cavaradossi.

Wallenberg – Legendary (ft. Leila K)

Found via the always astonishing Decida, this new video has me ready for the ball. WORK!

Only three more performances left of Berlioz’ The Damnation of Faust at the ENO. A spectacular new production – in all respects – ingeniously directed by Terry Gilliam. Tickets are only £12 on the door if you buy them before 10 o’clock on the day. Elitist? If you’re an opera skeptic let yourself be proved wrong. Humility is triumph!

Lindsay has an incredible emotional and physical presence on screen that holds an existential vulnerability, while harnessing the power of the transcendental—the moment in transition. She is able to connect with us past all of our memory and projection, expressing our own inner eminence.
Richard Phillips

LINDSAY LOHAN
A Richard Phillips Film
Directed by: Richard Phillips and Taylor Steele
Director of Photography: Todd Heater
Costume Designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Creative Director: Dominic Sidhu
Art Director: Kyra Griffin
Editor: Haines Hall
Color mastering: Pascal Dangin for Boxmotion

Novel was published in 1957.
Music below was released Michael Mantler’s wonderful 1976 LP The Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories, a collection of children’s verse by Edward Gorey set to music by a stellar cast including Wyatt, Carla Bley, Jack Dejohnette and Terje Rypdal.