Time to tell the truth—this blogger took the day off.
It started when I heard the remarkable countertenor, David Daniels, a year ago singing via CD a concert of art songs. And it ended today, when I spent four and a half hours listening to one gorgeous aria after another, all presented by the Metropolitan Opera, coming to me via live feed from New York.
The Saturday afternoon live broadcast from the Met on radio is a thing of the past. So I was happy to pluck down the fifty bucks to get Mr. Fernández and me to a movie house, where we heard four and a half hours of stellar singing, saw Renée Fleming interview the singers, and most, heard what may be the most beautiful Baroque opera ever written.
Readers, I have failed you. Listeners, I give you this, from a blogger still soaring on what may be the most beautiful Baroque opera ever written, Guilio Cesare, by Handel.
