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sydneyboy

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  1. Some Rentmen reviews give cause for concern.
  2. You misunderstood. I was reading the Rentmen reviews.
  3. If his Rentmen reviews are to be believed you can’t go wrong.
  4. Last night I attended a concert version of La Gioconda at the Sydney Opera House. A dream cast. Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tezier and a magnificent Gioconda the Spanish soprano Saioa Hernandez. The rest of the cast were seasoned internationals. Pinchas Streinberg conducted. The Sydney Opera House is 50 years old this year and I have been a patron from the beginning. After a night like last night one can be accused of overstatement but I cannot recall a more entertaining evening in the past 50 years. The singing was nothing short if spectacular and the artists were rapturously received by the audience in particular Ms Hernandez. As an aside I surprised this opera is not performed more often. It is wonderfully tuneful and surely no harder to cast than the big Verdi operas.
  5. Beautiful and no tattoos. Blessed relief!
  6. He is quoted as telling one client that he needn’t worry about discretion as he is too busy talking about himself to talk about anyone else. Very amusing.
  7. The comments on this earlier thread are overwhelmingly positive.
  8. I don’t get the point.
  9. My visit was a long time ago. Perhaps I should give it another chance.
  10. Coming from a city with many magnificent beaches I found Nice a little disappointing. My boss at the time had lived in Europe and warned me Nice would be full of lower middle class Englishman wanting to know where they can buy fish and chips. I think he had a point.
  11. Rentmen reviews are mixed to say the least.
  12. I written here a number of times over the years that my great unfulfilled operatic wish was hear Juan Diego Florez in the flesh. Well he is giving a recital at the Sydney Opera House in November. A dream come true!
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