December 17, 2007

Caruso, Melba to release new recordings, overcoming obstacle of being dead. Time capsules buried in the basement of the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris, and containing recordings of the two giants, are about to be opened up and made available to the public.
posted by Capt. Renault 17 years ago
  • *takes deep ribcage-expanding diaphragmatic breath *launches into flawless top C: w000000000000000000000000t!!!!!!!! ...thank you, thank you. No autographs, please.
  • Good, going, Pallas, you shattered the urns! Now there's asbestos everywhere! (Anyhoo, now everyone knows what to get me for Christmas 'o8...)
  • What, no mp3 or wav format? That was pretty fucking shortsighted of them.
  • Urns?
  • "We preserve music from 1907 the old fashoined way . . ."
  • Melba? Like the toast? Can toast sing? /stealing automatic joke
  • The toast was named for the diva. As was Peach Melba, the dessert. She was a popular lady.
  • Does the unveiling of an Enrico Caruso recording mean that Fitzcarraldo can finally hoist that boat over that mountain?