♥ Mad props to The Guardian's music blog for the kind shoutout related to our peculiar legal troubles: "We're used to giant music companies taking on bloggers for copyright violation, but La Scala going after an opera blog is a bit of an unusual variation."...and a big hello to The Guardian's readers.
To sum up all the friends who showed us their affection via teh intertubes, here's the list:
♥ The New Yorker's critic Alex Ross, via his The Rest Is Noise
♥ The opera blogger extraordinaire La Cieca
♥ Jessica Duchen, musicologist and novelist and music critic for The Independent: "Sense of humour failure"
♥ From Rome, Giorgia of Opéra Bouffe
♥ Thanks to La Tertulia del Foyer
♥ Intermezzo blog added a genius Photoshop of our former logo.
♥ From Barcelona, gtl torn t has joined our supporters
♥ Geopolitical snark On An Overgrown Path
♥ Again from France: Le klariscope
♥ Greece: Opera I Love
♥ Another Londoner: Boring Like A Drill
♥ More bloggy solidarity: On Classical Music.
♥ Our Québec friend Willym at Willy or Won't he?