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Andrea Bocelli tells the Times, “I sold myself short for fame and fortune.”
In other news: eggs break when you drop them.
Note to Mr Bocelli: In case you weren’t sure, here’s how it happened.

Quiz #11 Clue One

A few answers have trickled in but since it’s a draw this week, there is still plenty of time to send in your guess.
Here are a few clues:
1) The opera was first performed in Russia.
2) One of the singers died less than a year ago.
3) The composer wrote more than 25 operas over the course [...]

Quiz #11

The OM Quiz is heading deep into Operaland this week and adding an extra twist to double the fun.
Here’s what’s needed to be crowned this week’s Super Brain:
1) Name of Aria
2) Name of Opera
3) Composer
4) Date of composition
Extra special mention will go to anyone who can also name the singers.
Instead of a first past the [...]

Thursday Links

Loads of fresh links to get you through Thursday, which is nearly Friday, which is nearly the weekend. Hurrah!

Colin Holter @ The New Music Box asks, “Why would a quartet learn and present my piece when they could be learning and presenting the Grosse Fuge?”

Over at Dial M, Phil Ford brings to our attention [...]

Circle The Wagons, We Have An Opera Emergency.

Ok everybody, Miss Mussel has moved out of opera infancy into the wild world of….well…whatever the next level is called. There is a stack of DVDs in the corner freshly pilfered from Frere Mussel’s collection. The question is, what to start with?
Here’s the situation:
Operas Seen Live:
The Flying Dutchmen
Lohengrin
Lulu
The House Of The Dead
Pelleas et [...]

Linkity Links

Last night Miss Mussel was crafting a post on why horn players screw up so often. It was supposed to be a quick, light-hearted explanation of where the horn sits on the harmonic series. Somehow during the course of the writing she was overtaken by a giant curiosity monster and the next thing [...]

Review: Nota Bene Period Orchestra

Nota Bene Period Orchestra 30/11/07 in today’s Record
If Saturday evening was any indication, its looks as though Dr Who isn’t the only one in possession of time warp technology. Those sitting in the pews of Parkminster United Church in Waterloo were treated by the Nota Bene Period Orchestra to a 150-minute sojourn to the early [...]