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The first opera singer I ever encountered... some time before I heard any opera! . . .

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The Milanese Nightingale...

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An interview with the media..

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Do you like Hergé? I do too since I was a kid It's a pitty I don't have the original albums anymore , they are worth a little fortune now.
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When I was at university I had an hysterical landlady for a while - the was no other word for her: flying off the handle, screaming, shouting weeping, calling on God to intervene in her miserable life (she actually had quite a good life) - who sang in a local choir. When she returned from choir practise it was the only time she was calm and happy. I realised that for some people singing is controlled or licensed screaming. Off she went to choir practice, screamed her heart out, and felt a lot better.
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Do you like Hergé? I do too since I was a kid It's a pitty I don't have the original albums anymore , they are worth a little fortune now.
I do! I first ran up against them at a family friend's when I was about 6, they were in French & I couldn't understand them: so frustrated till I could get the English versions!
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That's how I felt during bits of Doctor Atomic.... when Adams made a trillster sing another diminished seventh interval.
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That's how I felt during bits of Doctor Atomic.... when Adams made a trillster sing another diminished seventh interval.


What a great dog he is. I like the way he goes everywhere, and they make no bones () about building him a little space-dog suit for the moon trip.

I think a 'great dogs of literature' would be great thread. And 'dogs of History'.
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Do you like Hergé? I do too since I was a kid It's a pitty I don't have the original albums anymore , they are worth a little fortune now.
What were your favourites? I think mine would've been the Voyage of the Unicorn/Red Rackham's Treasure duo, but if I had to choose a single one probably Tintin in Tibet (my partner spent 8 years in Bhutan and says it's very true to life!)



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Unsurprisingly, opera was one of Hergé's pet hates. Helsingin Sanomat suggested in October 2008 that Castafiore was modelled after Aino Ackte, a Finnish soprano.

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What were your favourites? I think mine would've been the Voyage of the Unicorn/Red Rackham's Treasure duo, but if I had to choose a single one probably Tintin in Tibet (my partner spent 8 years in Bhutan and says it's very true to life!)
My favorites were:

Cigars of the Pharaoh
King Ottokar's sceptre
Tintin in the Congo (of course )
Destination Moon
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The Castafiore Emerald.

Of course I read only in Flemish
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