Divamensch

I saw Tristan and Yseult at St. Ann's Warehouse on Nov 5, 2026. Please note that this trailer was from a version a few years ago with a totally different cast: I'm a fan of St. Ann's - - like their older cousin in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, they're presenters rather than creating orignal content. And what a joy to have some of the whackiest stuff being done all around the world brought to us in New York City. I was drawn to Tristan and Yseult because I'm such a

I discovered this on Instagram a few weeks ago and it knocked me out of my chair. Here's Spanish diva Montserrat Caballé singing the end of an aria in Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani. The magic moment happens at 3:20 - - she goes up to a high C, then does a descending chromatic scale from high C down two and a half octaves, down to the F sharp below middle C. And the voice is totally even all the way down. She jokingly called herself The Last Castrato. She wasn't just whistlin' "D