It’s all about popular!
Broadway diva Kristin Chenoweth sang for the Met Thursday in a “closed” audition. Does that mean she was behind a screen like the NY Phil does it? Rumor has it La Cheno is up for Samira (the Marilyn Horne role) the revival of Ghosts of Versailles in 2245 or whenever it is. La Cieca thinks, she’s castable as Adele for sure, or maybe a special run of something like La Perichole? Anyway, here’s a number La Cieca is pretty sure Ms. Chenoweth offered yesterday.
well, according to a very noted source the met is amplified. but, amplified or unamplified the voices are still considerably smaller than those of say the 60s. i would prefer to hear bigger, louder voices any day over this articulate precise mannered way of singing. yuck.
You’ll have to double check that, divina, there has been a big fight over the years to keep the Met from using amplification – although with this new GM who want’s to ‘popularize’ opera, we may be looking at such an installment.
I too love big loud huge round voices who can just crank out the sound (without pushing) and stay in tune and don’t have too wide or too fast of a vibrato in the way of the sound….but alas, not all of us were given such stereophonic instruments and thus must be ‘articulate’ and ‘precise’ – especially when one sings the rep that I do!! Nothing irks me like messy muddy fioratura!!!
ITCS, I couldn’t agree with you more about the messy fioratura. I am so tired of lyrico spintos singing dramatic coloratura that I could scream. Honey, it’s called stay in your happy little fach, and save the dramatic coloratura for the dramatic coloraturas.
Come on now speaking of amlification, there is rumour that Bocelli is soon to be singing at the Met. They’ll have to put a mike down HIS throat for sure like he has all of the time for his Pop pusedo opera concerts that the masses love so much–ugh
I am PRAYING that if Bocelli makes his debut, it will be in concert. Look, I admire the man for his dreams and his persaverance, and following an orchestra (literally) blind takes talent, but his voice is just too small for performance, and his technique has too much pop in it for my taste. A pretty voice, but not appropriate for the Met. Or any house, for that matter.
Yes, indeed he needs to stick to to trying to placate the unwashed (non-opera lovers) masses and leave opera singing to those that can do it. Sadly, there are those that think he really is on a level of Domingo, Alvarez, the “Pav”, Corelli, etc.