'They have yet to do a classical music edition of "Snog, Marry, Avoid"' says cavatina

[Flosshilde]

Juan Diego Flores? Ooh, No, not at all, looks far too clean cut and wholesome!

But you can buy the leather outfit he wore in 'Mathilde di Shabran' - http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll...1mgvo1_400.jpg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/22/royal-opera-house-costume-sale

[makropulos]

That's good to know. I am in London far more than I'm in Manchester, so I have to struggle to avoid the not at Covent Garden=retired/past it mindset.

Point taken - and her star certainly seems to have faded a little in the last few years. But I'm happy to report that she was on really good form in the Otello (at least I thought so, and the reviews were similarly enthusiastic), and she looked splendid too.

[salymap]

That's you, Sir Colin Davis and Leslie Phillips on the sidelines, salymap?

Well Sir Colin's the only one I've met of those but it was 60 and then 50 years ago. He's a
nice man though. Hope he's well enough for his Prom in September.

[Pianorak]

I always liked and got on with older men . . .

You're in classy company: Anne-Sophie Mutter is apparently also partial to those.

[Pianorak]

That's you, Sir Colin Davis and Leslie Phillips on the sidelines, salymap?

Andre Previn is also re-available.

[Mary Chambers]

I'd have married Peter Pears - tall, kind, musical, educated, charming - but unfortunately I'm the wrong gender, and anyway he was spoken for. He was also old enough to be my father, so perhaps not. It reminds me of Wendy Cope's brilliant little poem about Housman, which goes something like this:

I think I am in love with A.E. Housman
Which puts me in a worse than usual fix,
For A.E. Housman never looked at women,
And he's been dead since 1936.

[Nick Armstrong]

I think I am in love with A.E. Housman
Which puts me in a worse than usual fix,
For A.E. Housman never looked at women,
And he's been dead since 1936.

[amateur51]

I'd have married Peter Pears - tall, kind, musical, educated, charming - but unfortunately I'm the wrong gender, and anyway he was spoken for. He was also old enough to be my father, so perhaps not. It reminds me of Wendy Cope's brilliant little poem about Housman, which goes something like this:

I think I am in love with A.E. Housman
Which puts me in a worse than usual fix,
For A.E. Housman never looked at women,
And he's been dead since 1936.