Trip to NYC - Day 3 - Shopping / Cosi Fan Tutte

Hey guys! First I’d like to apologize, I didn’t post yesterday right after I came back from the opera because of a very simple reason. My mum forbade me to turn on the laptop because I needed to get some sleep for today, but anyways, here I am now so let’s get down to it.

My mum made me wake up early and we had breakfast at a not so good place. After breakfast we went back to the Hotel and I vocalized a bit just not to be completely out of shape when I go back home. Then we decided that it was high time we went to Times Square since this is like one of the first things people do when they get to NYC. We walked there, it was a nice walk and it was as busy as can be. We went to Forever 21 and I don’t even need to say that we spent the entire morning and noon looking for cheap clothes and succeeding. We got a lot of cheap great stuff for me and my sister (who made quite the list that little devil!).

me and Patrick at Rockefeller Center

Then we had lunch at Oliver Garden and I basically spent my entire meal talking to Luis Otavio (aka my opera bff) on the phone and telling him about everything that had happened on Friday at the Met. Then me and my mum just walked around, went to Rockefeller center, the Lego store, the works and I got something really cute, PATRICK! I’m taking him everywhere I go now, I’m retarded, I know. Gosh we walked so much, we went to this fancy cult bookstore that had this GIGANTIC opera encyclopedia that had this:

Yeah, this is a pic of a production of L'incoronazione di Poppea with Jonas Kaufmann and Vesselina Kasarova, but it says that Poppea is another singer. Anyways, the shop is pretty awesome, but the books are pretty expensive. By then it was 5 in the afternoon and we went back to our Hotel to get ready for the opera.

Around 7 we left the hotel and went to the Met. I met Kelsey and we talked about everything opera until the last second we could possibly talk. This girl is the absolute best, do follow her on tumblr everybody!

Me and Kelsey before the performance

Then I went to my fabulous orchestra seat, I picked my seat quite well, row P to the right, great view of the stage and close enough to see facial expressions! I took Patrick with me, he was excited to see Danielle DeNiese.

View from my seat done by Patrick

Something was off though. The chandeliers weren’t lowered, they were already up when I went to the auditorium and they didn’t come down at intermission.

Well, let’s get down to the opera. James Levine takes the podium and there’s a huge ovation. About 1/3 of the audience (including me) gave him a standing ovation, it was an amazing feeling. To actually see a LEGEND conduct something he loves thoroughly. After the clapping was done some people screamed “THANK YOU” and “YOU GO JIMMY”, the whole audience laughed.

Now, seeing James Levine conduct was insane, I feel like I just ticked one of those “things I have to see before I die” item off the list. The production was so adorable. First scene the boys are boasting over the fact that their lovers fidelity and Don Alfonso is so not buying it. Now, I didn’t know this, but the bass playing Don Alfonso was in the Adriana Lecouvreur ROH dvd I bought, he was the Prince, Maurizio Murano. This first scene already set the tone of the whole opera, light hearted and funny.

Scene changes and the loveliest scenery of a peaceful beach is revealed, they even have a ship! The girls sing the lovely “Ah guarda sorella” with ease and lively. But along comes Don Alfonso to disrupt everybody’s happiness.

I really loved the way they decided to not go with the obvious interpretations of these characters, because quite frankly, they are rather boring. Of course, Dorabella is still wilder while Fiordiligi is resolute in her faithfulness. But both girls played with their character’s personalities in a way that made them more human, likable, and yes, funny. Isabel played a rather curious jolly Dorabella, which I think goes back to the essence of the character but was extremely fresh. Then Susanna played Fiordiligi ever so faithful and sometimes serious girl, but who also had a twinge of curiosity as to what lies beyond her horizons.

When they find out their lovers are leaving and are forced to say goodbye they throw the most hilarious tantrum in which they sometimes even opted to ‘whine’ the music instead of singing it, which I thought was beautiful. Well after much tears and Please Don’t Go comes forward one of the people I have been looking forward the most of seeing in this trip, Danielle DeNiese. Now, you guys read my blog and you know she’s my baroque soprano queen, so when she came in literally pulling her house by a rope I couldn’t help but smile. Dani is absolutely amazing in this role, she’s probably the best Despina I’ve ever seen, she gives the character her very special spice, which is quite wonderful!

The girls come back and there is more drama and whining done fantastically by Isabel and Susanna. One other real nice aspect of the work they did was that the whining wasn’t irritating, it was actually quite funny. We wanted them to whine, they whined funny and now with the addition of Dani’s fiery Despina and her ironic comments it was really a treat!

Now, when the guys came up dressed as some sort of Arabic princes I had to control myself not to laugh too loud. Everybody’s acting in this production was superb and more importantly the exchange was incredible because they were all at the same level of energy. As they try to woo the girls Susanna slaps them back her a powerful and resolute rendition of “Come Scoglio”, she got quite a big ovation for that. And although Dorabella is without a doubt on her side it’s interesting to see how she’s already looking at them with curious eyes.

The boys think Don Alfonso has lost the bet and commemorate of their lovers fidelity but Despina and Alfonso have other plans. The guys pretend to drink poison because the girls have denied their love. Their spasms of death intercalated with their laughing at their lovers’ reaction is quite funny. But when Despina comes back dressed up like some oriental doctor I couldn’t help but simply burst. As she waved around her magnet the boys would toss and turn and the girls were in change of keeping them quite. That gave them the perfect opportunity to grab and hug them as much as they wanted while the ‘doctor’ would them it was the effect of the poison.

Everybody in the audience was having a blast, loads of laughter and cheers! As the act ended almost everybody in the auditorium had a smile of their face. I went to the Grand Tier to meet Kelsey and there we talked as much as we could about what we had just seen. But good times go by so fast it’s such a shame. Back in my seat and second act begins.

Despina is trying to convince the girls to loosen up and have some fun and flirt with the two strangers since they like them all so very much. This scene is quite funny and as Dani sang “Una donna” and danced I was suddenly brought back to Giulio Cesare! The girls FINALLY loosen up and go to meet the new comers. The four of them sit on a bench and there’s the scene that I would like to call “Awkward silence”. Eventually they head off, each in a different direction with a different girl.

It takes a lot more to persuade Fiordiligi than Dorabella but eventually both girls are head over heels in love with the strangers. Plus, they totally agree to marry them! The last part, which involves the false marriage, the lovers return and etc was true hilarious. The girls’ desperation, the boys’ fervent acting and Despina and Don Alfonso pretending like they knew nothing. Ah, it was incredible!

As the curtain went down thunderous applause came from the audience. It was really a triumphant closing night for Cosi Fan Tutte!

Right after the curtain call ended I rushed down to the stage door because I wanted to talk to the three girls! My mum was, to put it nicely, pissed off. She had her reasons though, it was cold, it was midnight and she was tired. Kelsey met me down there and I noticed there was the same group of 5 odd looking people who had been there the night before taking pictures and getting autographs and stuff. My mum was on the verge, she would tell me, in Portuguese obviously, “Look at these people waiting, they are all crazy and the singers will think you are crazy too. What’s the point of that? They won’t give you the time of day!”. My mum was right in one thing, those people were indeed crazy. When Matthew came out and tried to explain he had to be up at 5 am the next so he couldn’t sign anything but promised to sign whenever he came back, it was scary. They really started shoving stuff up in Matthew’s direction for him to sign as me and Kelsey stood there dumbfounded. I was like “Oh man, these people are crazy!”. Matthew did go away but gave me and Kelsey a very polite and nice good night.

Every single person who came out they would, for loss of better word, harass with their thousand of things they had for them to sign. It was very creepy. But eventually Dani came out and I suddenly saw her a few feet away from me and was very scared. I mustered up my courage and went to talk to her, she was super nice but told me she had to be somewhere and was super late. While we were talking one of those insane asylum fugitives simply came up between me and her asking for a picture. Seriously, I wanted to KILL HIM. Dani was very gracious and said yes, but asked him to excuse her because she wanted to sign my cd. I seriously did not have the lack of manners he did to ask for a picture with her since she was in such a rush. But she was very sweet and told me it had been such a pleasure to meet me. I was happy, but pissed at the old fat guy wished he’d trip and drown in his own fat. Ah well, that’s life.

Then Susanna Phillips came out and she was also so very nice. We told her we’d been tweeting her and we chatted quite a bit about the opera and the take they had in it. She was so thrilled that we had enjoyed ourselves thoroughly with their performance, she was truly so very nice!

Then Isabel Leonard came out and she also was very sweet and nice. We also discussed with her their new comic take on the piece and she was very kind while talking to us.

At the end of the day I was very happy, I’d gotten to see so many people I adore doing music from one of my favorite composers. But I was kind of shaken by those creepy people at the stage door, what they do is truly sick. Stuff like that does not happen in my country, at least not to my knowledge, or at least not to opera singers.

Well, I’m not going to write a whole on today because I didn’t do anyway opera related, just massive amounts of shopping and walking. I’ll write a little something later, bye everyone!

Cesare Adventure

PS* before I even begin, let me point out that I’m writing this at the sound of Vesselina Kasarova’s
Moscow concert, which is awesome and everyone should watch, it’s on YouTube

 

I must admit I’ve been postponing writing another post since my “Vesselina Kasarova” adventures were such a tough act of follow. But it’s been more than a week and I’m kind of still under the effects of the concert. Sometimes I start laughing out of joy remembering how she extended her hand to me and how she so magnificently sang. Ok, too much information.

First of all I’d like to say a BIG GIGANT Thank You to everybody who read, commented, sent me messages. And most especially to Rob, Smorg, Thadieu and The Eyes Have it, , who went the extra mile to recommend my blog in their own blogs, I was extremely touched and very happy you guys enjoyed my writing so much!

Not much has happened this past week in regards to my musical life, no exciting new concerts, or operas (we unfortunately do not get as much of these as we should). But I did do that test I was absolutely terrified of, and believe it or not, it went pretty well. I was petrified as I entered the classroom, so very scared, but I tried to think about the wonderful moments of my past week and I managed to walk in with a warm smile. The teacher was really nice to me, I sang what I had to sing and he told me I had done pretty well. Then I told him I was sorry for the things that had happened between us, and he told me that what’s in the past is in the past and we shouldn’t dwell on that and that, if it depended on him, it was all right between us. I was, I must admit, at first stunned, but then said that I absolutely agreed with him and we ended up having a quite nice chat about the new building.

But back to opera, I’d like to tackle a subject I haven’t talked about before and that I most appreciate that exists. Audio Streams, more specifically the Met’s Live Streams that brighten up a couple of evenings of my week. This past Tuesday we’ve had quite a surprisingly wonderful stream of Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Look, I’m not going to lie, I’m just gonna say it that, in my opinion, it was just so great that Danielle De Niese filled in for Natalie Dessay. Now, some say that she hadn’t rehearsed any of the material of that production in a long time, and yet others say the director had secretly been rehearsing with her just in case something went wrong. Anyway, she did the most amazing job!

Danielle De Niese as Cleopatra

I was actually at the gym when I heard (saw on twitter actually) that Danielle was going in as Cleopatra that day and immediately regretted the class schedule I had prepared for myself that day which would keep me there until 8pm (7pm Eastern Time). The opera started at 6:55 and as I rushed out of my spinning class I desperately tried to get the Met player on my phone. But those guys in my gym are smart, in order for us not to be distracted by our buzzing phones they’ve done something in there and the signal is almost inexistent! So as I showered and changed I tried to listen to the broadcast, without any success, as I left the gym (cursing all involved in the signal shield) my bars went up and I was in, listening just in time to hear Dani sing, Non Disperar, chi sà? Her first aria, there was still hope, but then the obvious happened, since I’m such a lucky person, my phone died.

It was quite obvious that was going to happen, since I spend most of my battery trying to get signal. Well, I had a silent trip home, and as I am crazy, crazy I decided I wanted to only take one bus and one train, instead of having to change trains. So I took the bus to one of the most dangerous places in town, at night, and there I walked, alone. Yes, I’m insane, I’m not doing that again, rest assured, I just really wanted to get home soon! I did have an opera moment then though, a what I call Micaela moment, third act Micaela moment, when she enters the gypsies camp and is scared half to death for her life, that’s exactly what I felt.

David Daniels as Cesare and Danielle De Niese as Cleopatra

Got home and immediately tuned in and the first act had just ended. I was upset, since most of my favorite arias are in the first act. But then we had trivia, a tricky one I could never get: What characters in opera can be played by both men and women? Operas that are less than 150 years old, I must add. Well all my baroque dreams went to the dumps with that 150 years old thing. I had no idea, but my dear friend Melanie Spector did, she’s also known as the queen of trivia, and it was quite funny because when William Berger said the first answer was Melanie’s the presenter, Margareth, said “Why, of course!” and William went on to saying “But wasn’t she watching the Met’s game today?” and I was like, “Holy shot, my friend is famous on the Met Radio!”.

Well, trivia aside, the performance was wonderful, I can attest for the music at least. I was live tweeting with my usual international opera buddies, but to my delight I was also commenting the performance with my new opera bff on facebook in Portuguese. Which is, I think, so good, because there are some things I think about that only are funny and witty when said in Portuguese and I could finally share them with someone who knows what he’s talking about and who is actually also listening.

There was a pretty awesome plus in the whole performance, the fact that one of my favorite mezzo sopranos was singing, Alice Coote. Unfortunately she wasn’t playing Cesare, which I do prefer when is sung by a mezzo instead of a countertenor, she was playing Sesto, but she nailed it.

Alice Coote as Sesto and Patricia Barton as Cornelia

When Da Tempesta was up everyone in their little corner of the world seemed to be doing the Bollywood dance of this production and Danielle sounded so enthusiastic and amazing. And her Piangero La Sorte Mia was heart breaking, I love this aria, it’s one of my favorites of the whole opera! I was so very lucky because my cousin wasn’t home so I could sing along to everything I knew, which was about 60% of the opera so you can imagine it wouldn’t be possible to have my fun with the cousin home.

The opera ended around 1:30 in the morning in my local time and I knew I was doomed the next day, but again, I didn’t care, I somehow had gotten yet another great day at the opera listening to top notch singers, so I was cool. The next day I was a wreck, because I’ve also contracted a flu, but did get a great day of study.

AAAH, and I got today my DON’T SMOKE, SING BAROQUE (OPERA IT’S COOL: YOU CANT HANDEL US) shirt and wore it in college and none of my ‘musician’ friends thought much about it (I say ‘musician’ because you can’t be a real musician and not thing that shirt is FREAKING AWESOME), but what do they know? My cousin liked it!

Gotta go! Peace all!

Confessions of a Shopaholic!

Where do I start? First by saying, holy cow, I haven’t posted in a while hun… I’m still in my never ending Orlando trip here in the US. But I’m getting back to Brasil tomorrow and actually getting there on Saturday and going straight to the movie theatre to watch Rigoletto. Everything you can imagine went wrong in regards to my dreamy trip to NY this weekend, as you may know, it didn’t happen. Yeah, damn snow that cancelled my flight on Friday and made me lose my Rigoletto and my mum’s mind. She got real upset about it, and I decided that for her sake I wouldn’t go, I was sure that she would get real sick if I went. So as you may imagine, I’m very upset and have been compulsively shopping ever since (in Amazon and Macy’s, oh credit card bill).

I have never been this upset before; I’m seriously feeling very broken. I had been planning and paying for this trip to NY myself for months now and I was so looking forward to meeting some of the terrific people I’ve befriended on twitter. What really got to me the most apart from not seeing my friends was not being able to watch Rigoletto. You see, two of my favorite opera singers are in this production. Piotr Beczala was my first tenor crush and it was in last year’s production of Manon, in which he was playing De Chevalier de Griex, that I feel in love with opera. And Diana Damrau is hands down my favorite soprano, I could listen to her sing any part, do anything, she’s the coloratura light of my life (SOPRANO coloratura light of my life, the coloratura light of my life is Joyce!). And plus I was gonna get to meet them on Monday, actually talk to them and have Diana sign all my cds! That I think was what I was most looking forward to.

And of course seeing the HOT Mariusz in Elisir wouldn’t be bad eighter, all of the cast of Elisir is very dear to me, Matthew Polenzani, Anna Netrebko and Erwin Shrott all hold a very dear place in my heart. So yeah, I was very and continue to be UTTERLY upset about everything that happened.

THANK GOD I decided to order on Amazon most of the things I planned to buy at the Met store! And that was actually what I wanted to talk about, I’m sorry if the beginning of this post is sort of depressing but I had to let it out somehow.

Well I got in total 16 cds, 4 books and 1 DVD! Yeah, a lot of stuff, but all very much necessary, let’s start with the cds, shall we?

So Joyce DiDonato is like my idol and favorite singer of all time, so I bought 5 of her CDS! I was most craving to get my hands on the so well acclaimed Drama Queens and Furore. I was most hooked on Diva Divo, the idea is already very intriguing but the different colors she brings to the table with this recording is just out of this world! I also got Rossini: Colbran, the muse, because well, I love Rossini and the Songs by Fauré, Hahn and Head Arias by Rossini and Handel. Very pleased with all of them for sure!

Then my second diva, I got 2 Diana Damrau CDS. Coloraturas for obvious reasons that have already been brought up in this post and the Mozart Arias one, because Mozart rocks my world and so does Diana!

I also got stuff from my favorite barihunks ;) Simon Keenlyside’s Tales of Opera and Erwin Schrott’s Opera Arias cds. Alongside with the baritones I also got some things from some of my favorite tenors, Juan Diego Florez’s Rossini Arias for again obvious reasons and Joseph Calleja’s The Maltese Tenor because I find his voice’s color so different and intriguing I can’t get enough of it!

Other two sopranos that hold a very dear place in my heart and in my opera CD collection have completely different voices. First we have Danielle DeNiece’s Handel Arias cd that is Dani doing what does best, baroque, baroque, baroque! And then we have Sondra Radvanovsky also doing what she does best, Verdi in her Verdi Arias cd.

And to end my perfect cd collection, at least for now, the amazing recording of Don Giovanni with Ildebrando D’Arcangelo as Don Giovanni, Diana Damrau as Donna Anna, Joyce DiDonato as Donna Elvira, Luca Pisaroni as Leporello, Rolando Villazon as Don Ottavio, Konstantin Wolff as Masetto and Vitalij Kowaljow as Zerlina. This is truly an opera treasure and a dream cast, although I would have picked another Ottavio, but that’s another story.

Then on to the books I didn’t get all the one I wanted but elas!

These three books give you an idea of how the opera singer life is, from three very different points of view with three very different enphasis, the point of view of a successful opera singer, the point of view of a jornalist and the point of view of a teacher

This one I actually started reading yesterday, right after I opened the box containing it. It’s Renée Fleming’s The Inner Voice that is absolutely amazing and it is a MUST have for anyone who is aspiring to be an opera singer. I’m not gonna talk a lot about it right now because when I finish reading it I want to do post only on it. But it’s GOOOOOOD!

Then I got something I thought I would enjoy reading thoroughly, Joshua Jampol’s Living Opera, a series of interviews with many opera singers, young ones and old in many stages of their operatic careers.

This one I got because of Joyce’s first or second vlog in which she recommends this said book that was written by her vocal instructor called The Naked Voice by W. Stephen Smith.

Something that I saw in a book store in Brasil last year that got me salivating with Mozart hunger but was like R$150,00, which would be $70,00, I got on Amazon for $30! The Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation, this is every Mozart fan’s dream come true! And the pages are all aged and the ends are made as if they’ve been sort of eaten by time, it’s a gorgeous gigantic book and I LOVE IT!

And finally a book one of my good friend and most faithful silent reader of this blog recommended to have as a quick answer go to book The Eyewitness Companion of Opera by Alan Riding and Leslie Dunton Downer.

Now finally, for the one and only DVD I got. CENDRILLON my all time favorite French opera EVER, the Royal Opera House production with Joyce DiDonato as Cendrillon, Alice Coote as Prince Charmant, Eglise Gutirrrez as La Fée and Ewa Podles as Madame de la Haltiere. Just bliss!

Apart from the fact I bought so many clothes I had to buy myself an extra bag to take them back home with me to Brasil, and I spend the little that was left of my money in Slytherin themed stuff in the Harry Potter park (where I cried, a lot). But in my own defense, the things here are so much cheaper than in Brasil, I had to make to most of it ;)

Ok, I’m gonna stop now! You all have a good one and wish me a safe journey back to my culturally undeveloped country! ;) Cheers! Oh and Happy Valantines Day everyone, it's not Valentine's Day in Brasil though, ours is on the 12th of June.

AND HAPPY BDAY TO JOYCE DIDONATO AND RENEE FLEMING THAT GET MORE FABULOUS ONE RIGHT AFTER THE OTHER :)

Double Baroque Trouble

Is the title too Harry Potterish? Ah well, this has been a week of studying languages (Italian and French mostly, I’m kinda running away from the German), talking a lot about opera (I really had a blast at the #operarox live show, really, those people are awesome, they get me! It’s so difficult to find people who are willing to talk about opera nonstop), and watching new stuff (new to me, this stuff is ancient actually).



Sarah Connolly as Cesare and Danielle De Niese as Cleopatra

Well, I’m gonna talk about the two last operas that I saw, Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Monteverdi’s L'incoronazzione de Poppea both productions from the Glyndebourne Opera and also staring Danielle De Niese as the leading lady. What I think is super cool about these baroque operas is that gender isn’t really an issue, I mean, you have women playing man and man playing women and it’s ok. And it works, and that for me is awesome, especially since I came from a very theatrical background where gender sometimes really doesn’t matter.



Danielle De Niese as Poppea

and Alice Coote as Nero

 

Well I automatically feel in love with the two leading couples! I love this more fiery kind of love that both have as opposed to sweet and tender one, I like love with action! Also I think it’s so cool how both ladies start off maybe not really in love with the guys, but then fall helplessly for them (especially Cleopatra, she turns out to be so devoted to Cesare!). And really, I don’t blame them because, those guys are really something! I don’t know if it’s the fact that they are Emperors, they have that power allure, although the power doesn’t attract me, what does it’s the attitude and the posture one has when it has absolute power. Does that even make sense?

Well, I loved both productions, I thought they were very well done, and it was my first time seeing both and they were both staged in a nontraditional setting. But as I’ve said before, these stories live through so many years because they are timeless. So you get it when Cleopatra wears a little black dress to seduce Cesare and then does the victory dance when she’s successful! I absolutely adored the guy who was the lady in waiting for Cleopatra (his character is a guy) so funny, like the sassy gay friend! Who would have thought there were sassy gay friends in Ancient Egypt! Again TIMELESS stuff!

While watching Poppea I made sure my bedroom door was locked, the last thing I needed was my parents walking into one of those spicy scenes. The opera itself kinda shocked me a little bit because I kept going back to something Tony Pappano said in a documentary about Italian opera, that Monteverdi was 70 something years old in the 17^th century holding the most important church musician position when he wrote this opera. And it’s pretty steamy; it’s one of the fieriest things I’ve seen so far in the world of opera.



Danielle De Niese as Cleopatra



I love Danielle De Niesse, I think she’s so fresh and she brings something so hers to the pieces. She’s a very physical performer, which I like very much, she can move, she can dance while singing and that I think adds so much to the whole interpretation of the operas. Sarah Connolly stole my heart as Cesare, she’s one of those women that just KNOW how to play man, she’s got the man swag, and I felt a lot of attraction toward her Cesare, she looked really hot. But to me, you really can't tell that she's a woman in that costume or whenever she plays guys really. Just to be sure, I asked my sister (expert cross-dressing cosplayer that she is) if she looked like a real man or not, and she told me she definitely did. Another mezzo who has got the man swag up her sleeve is Alice Coote who was playing the ever scary Nero (he scares me because he’s kinda like a serial killer). I’ve said before on the Cendrillon post that she is such a marvelous pants role performer and in this that the character is so different from Prince Charmant, she also nails.



Sarah Connolly as Cesare

I particularly like the scene in the second act where Nero is singing a duet with one of his senate companions (I really don’t know who that guy is actually) and they are talking about ruby red lips, delicious, irresistible, and it’s just so sexy! The music, Alice’s face changes with every passing phrase, Nero seems to at first be talking about Poppea’s lips, but then he looks at his fellow differently, and at first it’s an odd feeling for him, but then he kinda surrenders to it and just enjoys singing about the guy’s lips. And then singing about it isn’t enough, he has to kiss him, so he does and it’s a very “hold your breath” moment, he seems to enjoy it and but then he can’t do that, so with all his absolute power and grace he drowns the guy, still singing about the red lips! For me that was unbelievable, it was so intense, I loved it! 

But to me one of the most moving piece of music in Poppea is the final duet, oh God, it's so beautiful and the way they end in unison, they are one! And even though this opera is about power, sex and passion, with that duet it ends up being a piece about love and about two people who adore each other. Even though historically Nero kills Poppea one year after with a kick on her pregnant stomach, but let’s just pretend they lived happily ever after :)



 Alice Coote as Nero

Well, I don’t care about what other people say baroque opera rocks!