Only *Girls* Fight With Swords These Days

Your audio link to the Bastille Don Carlos, courtesy of francemusique



addendum: we so heart the French versions of this score, they are so fantastically weird.

sundry items

Just a reminder that the opener for the new Met Rosenkavalier will be streamed on the Met website on Thursday, April 13, starting at 7pm ET.

While you wait, here's Boston's Handel & Haydn Society doing the Monteverdi Vespers at the Temple of Reverb Dendur.



Or there's one of Eliza Carthy's big band projects live in Hull, with a rather killer opening set from Olivia Chaney, right here.