Grab my attention, why don't you?

One of my favorite opera scenes occurs at the end of Mozart's Don Giovanni, when the Commendatore (whom Don Giovanni killed early in Act I) enters Don Giovanni's house and exhorts him to repent of his wickedness. A few years ago, I found a YouTube clip of a performance in which the Commendators enters through the back door of the auditorium, after which the scene is played out with the participation of the audience. The concept was interesting without being over-the-top (I wonder what Mozart would've thought of it), and the performance was very good.

The other day, I went looking for that clip and couldn't find it, but then again, I didn't look too hard after finding a truly gripping performance of the scene that just about took my breath away.

Don Giovanni! a cenar teco m'invitasti!

Indeed.

Cheers...

Found on an index card of indeterminate age...

– Baudelaire ne te plaît pas ?
– Oh, tu sais, je n'ai jamais eu vraiment l'occasion de le lire.
– Tu ne connais pas, alors, ses pièces condamnées ?
– Non.
– Alors, je comprends maintenant pourquoi Baudelaire ne te plaît pas !

The pendulum swings...

The job I had tentatively tagged as Limbo has emerged as a no-go. According to my long-lost-but-now-found correspondent, the end client suffered terminal sticker-shock upon finding out what it would cost to translate the job.
* * *I made an offhand remark in an email yesterday, about how our little corner of Colorado has escaped the brunt of the major winter storms that have passed by, and although I am well aware of the fallacy of post hoc reasoning, it still feels funny for it to have snowed last night and today, with no sign of stopping.

Just sayin'.
* * *A fortuitous slip of my fingers while searching for "Dil Se" on iTunes led to the display of a number of podcasts in French, which eventually led to a small epiphany regarding iTunes searches: Instead of "French" one might readily (and fruitfully) search for "français" or other non-obvious words.

Mon bonheur est complet. <grin>

Cheers...