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- brooklynpunk: There seems to have been a massive purge, recently, of many of my favorite classical music and... 10:31 PM
- Quanto Painy Fakor: It would be interesting to know if the NYCO actually sold 600 seats per performance (house... 10:30 PM
- zinka: httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=OJKp Czyn0Lg Imagine standing behind Caballe’s behind as she bent... 10:29 PM
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One role in which I find Marton quite exciting: Ortrud. I saw her live and enjoy listening to the tape of that broadcast Lohengrin with Domingo and Tomowa-Sintow.
Yes indeed she could sing the shit out of my favorite gal Otrud!! She really knew how to tell poor dumb Elsa to shove it!!
Leontyneluvr, that never-ending high b by Caballe was from the last broadcast of the Bing era back in the spring of 1972. Don Carlo with Corelli, Bumbry, Milnes, Siepi and Amara as the Celestial Voice. I have a tape of it and it’s the sort of thing to hear again and again. Unbelievable. I guess it’s not the sort of thing that Mme La Cieca can post here for everyone to enjoy, is it?
Having been at the Met for the Lohengrin matinee, I’ll say that yes, Pape was terrific. What a gorgeous and solid voice.
It was my first viewing of this production and it was uglier and more boring than anything I had anticipated. I’m all for symbolism and playing with lights, etc., but what I saw hit me as neither pretty, nor interesting, nor meaningful. I just have no idea what it was supposed to mean.
Someone seeing Lohengrin for the first time and not reading the Met titles would have had no idea whatsoever of what the opera was about. Probably could not have even told who the characters were.
Interestingly, I heard quite a few people around me say that they loved it. Whey I asked a couple if they knew what it meant, they said that they didn’t know, they just liked it.
At one point, the stage is rather dark and only the hands of the soloists are spotlighted. Afterwards, I asked someone about it and was told that the bad people had their right hands spotlighted and the good people their left hands. That was the most he could figure out. Oh well.
Thanks for the Caballe note- that’s what I miss these days. Just a note on a Price appearance at the Met- word from her camp has it that she has removed herself from all things Metropolitan at this time- not sure if it is a statement on current standards or what but I would be very surprised to see her appearing at any official function
Sorry posted this on the wrong blog