I'm less anxious than I've been in recent memory, and there is plenty of road ahead. I hold a heavy summer hardback with easy to read print. My brain softens. I don't like to let people down, but I also don't like being let down. Eventually, one or the other happens.
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos•Carmen, Act 2: "Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre" (Escamillo, Frasquita, Mercédès, Carmen, Zuniga, Chœur) (feat. Bernard Gontcharenko, Choeur du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Eliane Lublin, Grace Bumbry, Kostas Paskalis, Viorica Cortez)