Richard Bratby

Drunk singers, Ravel on film and prime Viennese operetta: the addictive joys of classical YouTube

This stuff is like crack for me and the algorithms know it

Scene from Kaiserball with Rudolf Prack and Sonja Ziemann. Photo: Ullstein Bild / Getty Images 
issue 23 May 2020
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