Even if Opera Chic is on the record as a bit of a h8er of most things Wagner -- a more successful antisemite than a composer, if you ask OC, not to mention a wildly successful precursor of various neckbearded hipsters -- it makes her very happy that la signorina Janice Baird is the new Brunnhilde of the Seattle Opera replacing in the 2009 Ring our dear Jane Eaglen (Eaglen's Norma live in Florence, conducted by Muti, is playing all the time in Opera Chic's sound system and in her mp3 player as well). Baird has been a delicious Elektra in Seville and a great Isolde in Rome, that Oc has appreciated thx to various bewtleg in-haus recordings.
In bocca al lupo for her Seattle Brunnhilde, we're sure she'll be a hawt Wagnerian heroine for a new generation!