parterre box

116 comments

• celticpriestess says:

  ROTFLMAO! I could do without the special effects person, but that fellow Wolfgang sure wrote some great music for the soundtrack!

  on April 23, 2006 at 9:53 AM
• il stupendo says:

  La Cieca: may we have Ms. Bette Davis’s ‘the star’ or ‘dead ringer’ set to the following music:

  1. Handel’s ‘tu, preparati a morire’ from ‘ariodante’ or,

  2. Madame Edda Moser’s ‘der holle rache’ or,

  3. La Bartoli’s singing of a fast Vivaldi aria?

  Ms. Crawford and Mozart -how extravagant!

  on April 23, 2006 at 12:16 PM
• Baritenor says:

  I didn’t recognize the Singer…does anyone know who it is?

  on April 23, 2006 at 5:00 PM
• Cerquetti-Farrell says:

  I believe its Edita Gruberova from the complete recording under Pritchard (his second, with VPO, Pavarotti, Baltsa, Popp et al)

  on April 23, 2006 at 11:02 PM
• Baritenor says:

  Compleatly unrelated, but did anyone else read the article about Rene Pape in the New York Times Today? Really Cool.

  on April 24, 2006 at 3:15 AM
• la divina due says:

  I thought it was Sutherland. Sometimes I think Gruberova has morphed into her.

  on April 24, 2006 at 4:14 AM
• Baritenor says:

  Did Sutherland ever record the aria? and for that matter, ever play it onstage? I know she never recorded the role compleate.

  on April 24, 2006 at 4:52 AM
• il stupendo says:

  Joanie sang Mozart’s Electra on July 4-28, 1979, at the Sydney Opera House.

  highlights of the live broadcast, including the aria ‘d’oreste, d’aiace’, is preserved on cd:

  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005LZR7/qid=1145858128/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-3510158-2665746?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

  i thought anyone can recognise Edita at once. she has this unmistakable sound of ‘despair’ in her timbre, no matter what she sings.

  on April 24, 2006 at 6:02 AM
• papagenodz says:

  and sutherland takes the so wanted and always denied high note at the end of d’oreste d’ajace … love it.

  on April 24, 2006 at 6:16 AM
• marschallin says:

  Completely unrelated, but did anyone else read A. Tommasini’s review about Debbie Void in the New York Times today? Really Uncool.

  CHUBBY DEBBIE

  MADE OF TOSCA A VOID

  BUT NOT FOR TONYTOM

  WHY ANOTHER TRIUMPH TO AVOID

  WHEN SCARPIA THUNDERED “YOU MAY BE THINNER,

  BUT THAT VISSI D’ARTE AIN’T NO WINNER”

  DRESSLITTLE AD-DED “OLD HAS BEEN,

  YOUR WOBBLING

  TO BE BELIEVED MUST BE SEEN”

  ………

  CARA CARA

  A TE O CARA

  REMEMBER CHERYL

  LA LA

  DEVOID SINGS TROUBLED

  BUT GAY FRIENDS

  ARE A WONDER DOUBLED

  A TE O CARA

  OH CHERYL RARA

  TURN BAD KARMA …..

  ….. TO REAL DRAMA

  on April 24, 2006 at 3:18 PM