Wait,
focus ...
FOCUS ...
Ah!
Hier
sie
ist!
During a break I mauled Richard Wagner, who sits legless and proud at the bottom of an extremely long, very European-aristocratic staircase at the rear of the Deutsche Oper rehearsal hall, next to the fire extinguisher. The forgotten quarry of German composers of ill repute! Where is Strauss? Pfizner! Buried beneath the Proberaum where against opera singers' better judgment Christopher Alden today refashioned the Aida Temple Scene (classic vessel for the the serious operatic onanist) into an American Evangelical revival (what?!). It's an exciting time to be hanging out and subbing in for the temple priestess who, fortunately for me, has a cold ...
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