Chacun à son goût! Strauß briefly and surprisingly visiting this blog.

There are the right Strauss’es and the wrong Strauss’es. The right one is Richard who wrote marvelous operas such as Elektra, Salomé and Der Rosenkavalier. The other ones are all those Johanns with the double S – Strauß… you know New Year Concert in Vienna and all that, which is sort of ok for some brief [...]

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Dario

I harbour a great love for the actor, comedian, poet, artist, and Nobel laureate Dario Fo whom I feel privileged to have experienced live on three occasions. One of them with my late grandfather here in Copenhagen in a master class with Danish actors. In that context, with a simultaneous interpreter, Dario Fo easily reached [...]

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