This is a scene from a new Richard Strauss production in Berlin.
I will confine my criticism to the singer’s ironing technique: that is not how you do men’s collars, darling.
I can just about put up with the lack of taste displayed by German dictator/directors. But the absence of observation trumps all.
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The singer-songwriter posted this reminiscence four years ago: Fun fact, the titular line for “You Can Call Me Al” was inspired by an amusing misunderstanding at a party. One evening in the early 1970s, French […]
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