Celebrating May 4th! Before you overdose on Franz Lehár, my bonny conductor, I want you to keep in your thoughts the woman who longs for the taste of you and the touch of you and the scent of your hair and your sweat, before I go and paint a mustache on Danielle de Niese.

Above the lovers: Renee Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky sing the most famous love waltz of them all, “Lippen schweigen” from Die lustige Witwe, or The Merry Widow (1905).

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• “Cantara Christopher Gives Her Beloved Conductor John Wilson Crib Notes on Todd Field’s Screen Masterpiece, Tár: Love, Teshuvah, and Filipinos Will Save Western Music”

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