Of Lost Chances, Forbidden Love And Remorse.

This 150 years old poster show us a performance in Vienna with the great Diva Adelina Patti (1843-1919) in Donizetti‘s Opera „Linda di Chamounix“. In the cast you can also find the Tenor Ernesto Nicolini. He was later one of her husbands. The conductor was the Composer Luigi Arditi .

ONCE UPON A TIME: Hans Pfitzner's musical legend "Palestrina" at the Breslau City Theater in 1932. Stage design by Hans Wildermann (1884-1954) for the 6th scene of the 1st act. "From here on, the room is populated with angelic figures." And Palestrina writes his mass.

Christmas advice for ladies (crossposted from Old Weird Scotland on mastodon, with permission)

I want you all to keep this in mind!

They nailed it.

Michelangelo and His Drawings.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translation by Constance Garnett)

The dining room has a window treatment very European in flavor combining printed linen and cotton, set off by the marble floor in colors enhancing the purity of the garden's greeness.

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

thrifted and annotated copy of 'to the lighthouse' by virginia woolf.

so lovely, buying a book at the second-hand store and finding someone's annotations between the pages.

academic success.