My friend, Sonny Lim, is quite like me. He took a really long time to start blogging (6 months?) after I started a blog for him. Well, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Sonny Lim’s Opera Recordings, a site where he shares his reviews of opera cds with the world!

In his words:

“I’ve just set up my first-ever blog! But as I don’t relish the idea of blogging about personal matters to the whole world, I’ve chosen a small focused area : Opera.

In particular, I blog about several opera recordings of one particular opera, so that it may help you choose which opera recording to buy. There are guidebooks available but I couldn’t find anything on the Internet, so my blog is a small contribution to this gap.

Naturally, I am not trying to be comprehensive. I will just share whatever it is that I happen to be writing about.

And what I have been listening to in recent months are two Mozart operas: The Magic Flute and Cosi Fan Tutte. I’ve been comparing different recordings of each of these operas. But of course, the interesting thing about reading blogs is what you pick up along the way – the personal idiosyncracies, the prejudices, the colour of a life – right? In my blogs, I don’t have to pretend to be detached and objective, as I have to be when I do official reviews.

Do take a look. It will be of interest to you because you are all either interested in music, opera, Mozart, or singing. Or want to be.”

Go visit him now!