Didn’t know French-Canadian cartoonist Boum was an opera fan! A kindred spirit out there! Interesting though, maybe that’s a good way to turn kids on to opera, by exploiting the dramatic aspect of it all… I saw plenty of opera as a kid, but didn’t start to really like it until I was older, so I wonder how I would teach any little ones in my life to like it…
Boum posted a great Dessay interpretation of the aria to accompany her comic, so to mix it up, here’s one by Joan Sutherland instead:
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