© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-virtuelle2 Recent reviews written by member virtuelle2 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_490657648260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - ‘DER ROSENKAVALIER' Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Written 1909-1910 PRINCIPAL CAST: Die FELDMARSCHALLIN FÜRSTIN WERDENBERG (Sopran) . . . ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF Der BARON OCHS... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490657648260 Fri, 6 Nov 2009 01:34:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490657648260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_478048980612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - Celiacs will surely rejoice at this new food product from Anheuser-Busch!  Those with gluten-sensitivity/intolerance can welcome with open arms (and mouths and bellies?) this new gluten-free beer to their tables! Called 'Redbridge', the lager was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~478048980612 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:52:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_478048980612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473843076740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - [ NOTE: My apologies, Gentle  Readers!  An earlier version of this review emphasised the 'saltiness' of the baked product - an erroneous tasting judgement based on a batch of rolls that didn't rise as maximally as it should have.  The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473843076740 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:47:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473843076740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473751654020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - For a latterly gluten-sensitive individual like me, gluten-free foods and decent taste and texture are almost mutually exclusive, and spotting a product with all these assets is as easy as finding an honest politician in the nation’s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473751654020 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:36:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473751654020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473522081412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - Attention, Couch Potatoes of the World !  Want to painlessly burn some calories at home - while reading, watching TV or a movie, or even working/playing on your computer?  Here's an inexpensive and none-too-stressful way to do so. It's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473522081412 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:37:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473522081412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462437846660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - Having a fibre problem?  Oh, not the clothing kind, but the dietary variety?   Well, bid farewell to your fibre intake problems with this excellent source of the same - the Gourmet Jumbo Black Mission Figs as processed by the Made in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462437846660 Sun, 1 Mar 2009 00:24:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462437846660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460961189508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - Unless you love encountering a gooey, sticky mess beneath your bar of soap, I'd avoid this product and choose a different soap line. That's the bottom line. Aroma-wise? Merely passable. Although you do get a hint of the clean, fresh... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460961189508 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:25:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460961189508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_453883039364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - The 13th and 14th of February, 1945. These two dates are forever etched in the memory of those who survived the devastating firebombing campaigns carried out by the British and American forces upon the city of Dresden in Germany. Little Maria... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~453883039364 Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:11:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_453883039364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427535011460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - The organic food craze has finally gone mainstream, thanks to more awareness of its benefits to consumers as well as to the environment, among greater numbers of people. With fears of pesticides, hormones and other toxins contaminating the food supply... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427535011460 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:54:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427535011460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425855585924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - I consider the young Scots director David McVicar as a saviour of modern opera theatre. The man brings another classic work out of the musty, hidebound doldrums of stiff, stand-and-deliver tradition while also eschewing the insufferable pretentiousness... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425855585924 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:09:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425855585924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423234932356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - The grounds of the Bayreuth Festival House were practically empty on that September afternoon when we stopped by last year, so we just went about our own personal tour of the exteriors, snapping photographs of the pink brick building set majestically,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423234932356 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:47:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423234932356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_419756281476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - {Note: I've just moved this newly updated, old review to the new, more proper Epinions entry with the Rhino Handmade CD page showing complete info on the box set.} SEE MY PROFILE PAGE FOR VIDEOS! =================== Before Joan Jett's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~419756281476 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:33:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_419756281476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_419632680580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - The well-publicised &#145Atonement&#146 (2007) being an Oscar contender in several categories (Best Picture, Supporting Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Music), I&#146d gone in expecting at least a good film. So, what... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~419632680580 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:22:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_419632680580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_419315355268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - Thank goodness the wonderfully situated Empire Hotel at 44 West 63rd Street has finally undergone a much-needed makeover. The old Empire was built in 1923, on the original from the 1890s. During our first stay in 2002, it was a very expensive, if... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~419315355268 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:16:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_419315355268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_413209038468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - At the start of &#145The Diving Bell and the Butterfly&#146 (Le Scaphandre et le papillon, 2007), we are introduced to Jean-Dominique Bauby, the protagonist, through his own eyes -- or make that, eye. His left eye, to be exact. The camera assumes... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~413209038468 Fri, 4 Jan 2008 04:22:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_413209038468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409211735684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - In a small town in La Mancha, the black-clad Soledad (Sole) takes a last look around the empty house of her recently deceased Aunt Paula. Then she&#146s seized by a sudden fear as she thinks she spies a spectral shadow descending the stairs. Could it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409211735684 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:18:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409211735684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_406601174660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - The German Democratic Republic&#146s Stasi (Gestapo-like State Secret Police) insinuated itself into the private lives of its citizens. The government of paranoia found it necessary to snoop upon its people, hoping to root out any persons who did not... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~406601174660 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:10:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_406601174660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402327113348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - Disclaimer: Be forewarned. The following post may contain foaming-at-the-mouth, excessive praise of a pianist that may not be good for your intellectual health. [added 9/5/07] I&#146ll say it right now &#150 this is one DVD every piano... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402327113348 Mon, 3 Sep 2007 23:25:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402327113348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_401709108868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - Strict traditionalists might quickly dismiss this dramatisation of &#145Agrippina&#146, one of Georg Friedrich Händel&#146s most successful operas, as unworthy, even if none of those offensive Eurotrash concept stagings rear their heads here... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~401709108868 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:21:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_401709108868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_401405283972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - &#145Right from the beginning, you have some musical invitation to the music of Bach, and then you live with it for the rest of your life.&#146 &#151 Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko, from J. S. Bach: 48 Preludes and Fugues (DVD)... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~401405283972 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:23:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_401405283972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_401063841412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - Unintentional, perhaps, but the plot turns in the dramatic opera, &#145Siroe, Re di Persia&#146 (&#145Siroe, King of Persia&#146), can sometimes border on the cruelly farcical. I mean, really - how much undeserved guilt and punishment can one man... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~401063841412 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:56:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_401063841412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_400261418628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - The basilica of St.-Pierre-aux-Nonnais where this disc was recorded, predates Jeanne d'Arc’s (Joan of Arc) time by hundreds of years. This particular basilica, a church of an abbey in Jeanne's time, stands as a silent witness to more than a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~400261418628 Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:33:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_400261418628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_400028044932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - In 1428, Jeanne d'Arc, an illiterate seventeen-year-old farm girl from Domremy in the Lorraine valley set out for Vaucouleurs to meet an army captain named Robert de Baudricourt. Capt. Baudricourt was to help her in seeking out the Dauphin, Charles... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~400028044932 Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:22:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_400028044932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_390255316612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - First it was the pashmina shawl offered by the waitstaff to this diner starting to feel a bit chilly just as we were being seated that impressed me about Charlie Trotter&#146s. Of the place and the man I'd heard much, but never really paid close heed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~390255316612 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:46:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_390255316612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_386126352004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author virtuelle2 - German-born English composer Georg Friederich Händel was a mere youth of twenty-two studying in Italy when he wrote the allegorical oratorio, &#145Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno&#146 (1707) (which he would later re-write in English as... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~386126352004 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:33:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_386126352004?linkin_id=8003929