Good morning, all!
No, DR JRand58, GIUDITTA is also from the Morbisch Festival, but I was watching IM WEISSEN ROSSL, which means "White Horse Inn." GIUDITTA (Judith) is a late Franz Lehar operetta about a whore in Morocco or some part of the French Foreign Legion World. I find it a bit pretentious, more Richard Strauss than Lehar, but a lot of people like it. Her big aria "Meine Lippen sie kussen so heiss" (My lips kiss so hot) gets a lot of exposure; Beverly Sills interpolated into the last act of her Merry Widow performances, which seemed a bit odd for the character; I think the translation was "On my lips every kiss is like wine." Now that I've kicked GIUDITTA around the block, there are other Morbisch performances I like as well: The Merry Widow, The Beggarstudent, The Gypsy Baron.
I slept late this morning, and I've got a lot of work on Liz Callaway's material. Alex is late with one chart, which frustrates me much as I love him, since it's less time to do the chart and get it to the copyists without going into overtime. He's promised it to me tomorrow. It will be wonderful, since he's so good, but it means a day I cannot work on it today.
Beyond that, I have dinner at 5:30 with my friend Darrel Karl at an Indian place on 46th and Sixth at 5:30. It will be a nice break from the chart.