ateolf | Operettas

Got some cds in the mail: Anne Gillis: Archives Box 1983-2005 and Anne Gillis: Vhoysee (and I think they even came late the day before and were missed until the next day). Also a little later I got a package with a Diamanda Galás shirt with the cover of You Must Be Certain of the Devil. Alright! Then in the evening Mary Beth and I went to UofM to see a night of some Italian operettas. The first was Il Segreto di Susanna by Wolf-Ferrari and it was my favorite. The other two were both by Puccini: Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi (of those, the latter was my preference...classic comic-opera stuff of identity switching but with more of a base of black humor...the former was religious and sappily melodramatic). But it was a fun night with a lot of opera and now we're about to go out and possibly get an even bigger dose of opera!