Ah, love! but a day and the world has changed.

The Opera Blogging Drought of 2006 is beginning to wane. How I survived so many months withought frequent updates from Maury, the Wellsungs, Sieglinde, or Alex Ross I'll never know (or at least reveal).

So now Trrill throws off its summer garb of psilocybic MP3 posts and dons the fall-winter cloak of sumptuous voices, virtuosity, musical and dramatic truthiness, and tons of great media posts. You are cordially invited to welcome Trrill back to the blögôsphère with open arms (wait, what?).

In local news, Seattle Opera has started up its new season with a sumptuous Rosenkavalier, starring Carol Vaness's in her first Marschallin—imagine. It seems Alice Coote is stealing the show as Octavian (going far beyond the mere "English" descriptor the Met has given her). As I'll be attending soon, a review is forthcoming. In the meantime check out the well-lit video preview. I think you'll see that I am in for a wild ride.

Man, it's good to be back.