I have seen Elektra many times (20-25), mostly with Birgit Nilsson, (but also many others) and I understand that it is a difficult opera to put on stage. But you should always let the music speak (I love it!) and it is not necessary always to exaggerate the darker musical happenings within the staging. This is a film I do not want to see more than once. It is terribly ugly, dirt grey althrough - and with rather much overacting. There is BEAUTY in the score, you can see nothing of it in this scenery and direction. As for Ms. Rysanek however, she clearly shows that she could have given us Elektra on the stage. Varnay is partly overacting. Catarina Ligendza gives some of the warmth that a Chrysotemis surely is expected to. I think I must mention here that I greatly admire all these artists, Varnay - I just adore her - in Wagner, Ligendza (in Wagner), and Rysanek, in amonger other fields, Wagner and Strauss, notably The Empress.

This book has a lot to teach you on the basics. And it is done very well. This is a great beginners book, with lots of easy to follow graphs and instructions. The simple bags work up nicly. I feel you will not be disapointed with this book.

I found this book to be especially useful in making pouches and bags with seed beads. Thank you very much.

This book is an excellent look at what Plath wrote, her beginnings as a writer, the climates that she worked in and how her relations with her mother and her husband helped to shape her writing. While I would have liked to see more of how Plath's favorite authors influenced her, there is enough new material (letter and journal excerpts, as well as the author's observations) to make it a worthwhile addition to the ever-growing pile of books on the legendary Sylvia Plath. A good study for beginners and scholars alike.

I have been shopping on Amazon for a long time but never thought to search for "espresso pods" but I am so glad that I did. This pod is awesome! It is smooth and creamy and tastes sooooo good. In fact, I just ran out of them and went to Starbucks for my morning latte and it just tastes like cr@p. I was buying Starbucks pods for about 10 years and using them in my old Barista machine but their espresso is super bitter and often tastes like the bottom of an ashtray but finding another pod until now was and seemed almost impossible. This purchase has just confirmed what I already suspected... Starbucks is just more American cr@p that they are trying to pass off as I don't know what.This pod is like that love you have been searching for all your life and suddenly you meet and realize that the last 10 years could have been so much better. Then you get angry for dating all those other idiots. Oh wait.... this is a product review. Anyway great espresso pods!

I've used three pods so far to see if it was something I'm doing, but it's not. The espresso is just weak. I'm going back to using ground Starbucks espresso.