because there will never be enough chavela vargas in the world

Previously posted:

So of all the obligatory year-end The Lives They Lived write-ups, this is the one that wants most to be turned into an opera.

Update: Then, hey, look what popped up on the 'tubes:



Meanwhile, while I was surfing info on El Hábito, check out this note from the Jesusa Rodríguez wiki:

"In the 1980s Rodríguez notably directed an adaption of Mozart's Don Giovanni, featuring an all-female cast, entitled Donna Giovanni (1983)."

Now, when I said the other day on Twitter that the Mozart/DaPonte operas could no longer say anything interesting about gender, I wish to table those remarks until such time as I dial the Wayback Machine back to 1983, because I bet that was seriously awesome.


Update, or Down the Rabbit Hole and suddenly it all looks really familiar:

Me to Mex Peep: So where was I when all this was going on?

Mex Peep: I don't know what rock you were under, but...

Certainly Regie Or Not Regie was on the ball. Though I will say I had seen at least one of those Cosí clips before, I never connected the dots with about two decades of previous discussions with Mex Peep on the Mexico City art scene (like, oh that Jesusa Rodríguez), probably because for some reason (lol) we were always talking about Astrid Hadad.