Kosky’s production in London was disruptive but way nicer too look at, better enacted and more coherent.

Yeah!!!

Seeing that production I understand him…

I won’t know, I left at interval. Would have left earlier but was in the middle of a row.

I suspect Bernheim pulled out because tonight was filmed for TV and he didn’t want to be filmed in that production.

I like her very much but I’m afraid I agree…

She’s a Paris favourite.

It isn’t but she’s moving towards a heavier rep that her voice is now better suited for, like Leonora of Trovatore. But Tosca? Erm…

Which Putinfreundin?

In Salomé it’s brief and it’s in the libretto (don’t know Akhenaten). In Iphigénie it’s not, and it was not a brief moment it was almost all of act 2, whilst singing a big aria, facing the audience and in a relatively small house.

Another « agency » recording ?