Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!!!!!!!

                      Charlie Handelmaniac

Jussi wishes you a wonderful Holiday Season,as do I...to you wonderful people!!!!!

• I had posted on “learning a language through opera.” If all you know is what you know from opera, you surely can uses these phrases (and produce hilarity for the natives.):

  1. Lousy meal: “Eh cameriere…questo piato puzza di rifritto.”

  2. Nasty Hotel Clerk: “Va….fuggi”

  3.Very angry at someone “Cruda, funesta smania”

  4.Crying at a film in Paris: “Pleurez,pleurez,mes yeux”

  5. Trying to make out with someone: ” Du bist der Lenz”

  6. Homesick: “O Patria mia”

  7. During sex with “Cortesan”(I didn’t say “Putana”): ” Basta,Roberti” OR”Basta,Roberta.”

  8. Bad food: “Ohime, morir mi sento.”

  9. Fire in your hotel room “Di quella pira.”

  10. Hating a mean landlady: “Maledizione” OR “A terra…e piangi” OR
  ” Man tote dieses Weib”

  11. Kept up by orchestra on the plaza: “Nessun Dorma”

  12. Departure: “Addio,senza rancor.”

  13. They came into your hotel room and robbed some furniture:
  “Adieu,notre petite table.”

  14. I can’t sleep in this dump. “Ich habe nicht gute Nachte”

  15. Bad service at Easter GUESS!! (a te,la mala Pasqua.”

  Come on..nutcases like me..Let’s hear some of yours!!!!

Let us celebrate the birthday of Giacomo Puccini,born Dec.22, 1858 .We would need  5000 towels to catch all the tears he makes us shed in a lifetime. Diana Soviero sings the Suor Angelica Finale here.

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