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I had the best dream.

Author: Aeryn Send a noteboard

Posted: 26/03/2013 04:57:51 PM

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I had a dream I was hanging out with Anna Netrebko somehow, and the something very bad happened in the world. Like she was going to die soon, or there was a war about to start. She was very upset and 2 hours late to the performance (which I realize is impossible in opera, because it involves hundreds of other people), but then she started singing, and it was the best thing in the world. It was so good it made the end of the world worthwhile. It was La Traviata, and she didn't hold anything back, didn't conserve or protect her voice at all, and it was an absolutely unreal sound. Tears were streaming down my face. In the middle, she had to stop bbecause she strained her vocal cords, and then other things happened, but it all pales in comparison with the singing.

This is all because I'm excited to be seeing La Traviata in two weeks with Placido Domingo singing the father, and Diana Damrau as Violetta. The reviews say she was spectacular, and got one of the most sustained standing ovations in recent Met history. And I'll be seeing Anna Netrebko next year in Eugene Onegin. The dream was an impossible scenario, but I still remember the feeling of undiluted aural pleasure.

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