Meowentine Price
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paws for thought…..
And to think I let my mouse click on it! Ah well, I am not very computer litter-ate.
Sweet… charming, in fact. Though the audience track seems a bit de trop.
Can you puleeze try a nice chicken doing Dame Joan Cluckerland and some of her vintage, languageless bel canto syllables?
Cieca darling, I think you may have too much time on your hands.
Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again.
When I heard Leontyne do a very similar interview to this one on the Today Show, yonks ago (about 12 – 15 years ago) – same vein – Aida being a Princess, not a slave etc- I couldn’t believe my ears. The whole thing sounded weird – as though she (one of my most adored idols) had a massive chip, of some kind, on her shoulder. It just didn’t “fit” anything I imagined about her – and hearing it again – it still leaves me agasp. I just wish there had been some PR advisor dude around to slap her and say “Drop it, girlfriend – leave that kinda crap to the rappers!”
I wonder if anyone else felt a similar reaction?
I’ve always thought this “I can relate” crap ridiculous. Imagine Caballe saying that she feels particularly in tune with TROVATORE and FORZA because of her Spanish roots … or Sutherland thinking Lucia’s character is in her blood because of her Scottish background. Did Callas feel MEDEA more than NORMA because she was Greek? Callas admitted to never researching ANNA BOLENA. “All you need to know is that she is a queen!!!” These roles were written by ITALIANS for crying out loud. For Gods sake…….just sing it!!! Right on Daniel!
Have any of thought that maybe one of the reasons that she was a great interpreter of Aida is because she “did” feel a personal connection to the role. If that was her perception/concept of the role then so be it. As long as she sang the well.
Sorry – correction – as long as she sang it well.
Mme. Price was a superstar at a time it would have been illegal for her to drink from the same fountain as me in great swaths of your country. It is a wee bit disingenuous to mention Callas or Sutherland et al. I don’t think Sutherland was in the vanguard of Scottish artists at long last accepted on the world’s great stages. Context counts my friends. And in the end I think Price was talking about what Aida meant to her not what it has to mean for us. And as far as that goes, she can say and believe whatever she wants…nobody ever asked me to sing Aida.