In the autumn of 2021, neatly coinciding with the release of her latest album “Amata dalle Tenebre,” Russian soprano Anna Netrebko published her first (cook)book, the German-language Der Geschmack meines Lebens (“The Taste of My Life”). Upon discovering this a few weeks ago, our only course of action was to throw multiple-course Anna Netrebko-themed dinner parties.

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…writes about classical music and science, and is currently based in New York.

Aksel Tollåli is a musicologist and critic living in Oslo. He regularly writes for Norwegian outlets such as Scenekunst.no and the newspaper Aftenposten.