Saturday, June 08, 2024

Pizza - 🍕- 25 Best Opera Arias

Pizza Dough 1kg 00 flour 3 cups warm water 1 sachet yeast (7g) 2 tsp salt 1 tsp sugar

Touch of Olive oil

Good to know salt is last - Warm water mixed with yeast and sugar mix and wait for 15 minutes time now to add all purpose flour etc and salt. Mix in bowl and later knead on wooden board … tip oil in the bowl … Basic Method - Combine all ingredients in a bowl and kneed for 10 mins. Place in a bowl and cover with cling wrap. Allow to rise for 24 hours at room temperature.


At the Sourdough Library, With Some Very Old Mothers


Anita showing sourdough baking


A Feast of Song from Purcell to Puccini - Christine Douglas of Birriga Tunes fame


from Australian Opera Company - tv broadcast Hansel: Susanne Johnston Gretel: Christine Douglas Gertrude: Elizabeth Campbell Peter: Malcolm Donnelly Sandman: Gail Robertson Dew Fairy: Kathryn McCuster Witch: Margaret Haggart conductor: Johannes Fritzsch stage dirctor: Elijah Moshinsky 1992

Sydney Opera House - Humperdinck HANSEL UND GRET

Bottled rage, sublime violence, threats and tears, love and anger. Never has a woman bared so much of her soul,” the French dramatist and poet Théophile Gautier wrote of Italian opera singer Giulia Grisi in the 1830s.

An Absolutely Fabulous Celebration of History’s Greatest Divas


An Absolutely Fabulous Celebration of History’s Greatest Divas


Queen's Birthday Honours 2022: Christine Douglas proud of helping bring generations of opera performers to the stage


25 Best Opera Arias - favourites from Puccini, Verdi, Mozart and more


architecture of a broken heart

ruins in half-light whispers of dead saints and martyrs swirl among shadows like half-remembered prayers unadorned reminders that heaven may exist somewhere but not here moon rises on a bitter night love gone cold lonely grown too old #vss365


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100 years after the writer’s death, what do his uncensored diaries, and a raft of new studies, reveal about what made him and his relevance in our digital age?


Articles of Note

The Gulag Archipelago, which catalogs countless deaths, unimaginable cruelty, and the worst of human nature, is a work of optimism... more »




The Freaky, Fetishistic, Ferocious, Fascinating Flamenco Of Rocío Molina


"She moves in jaw-dropping ways: unexpected, angular, sometimes comical, intense, mesmerising, with blistering technique. … That’s just her dancing. Then there are the productions – the worlds Molina creates for herself, which stray far beyond flamenco norms." - The Guardian