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Dye, dye my darling

by | 1:52 pm | Nov 28, 2006

La Cieca has been informed that there’s an emergency meeting called this afternoon at the Met on the subject of, well, let’s just say, “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Let’s hope staffers are able to clear the air!

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  • Geronimo says:

    Costume problems with “Last Emperor” seems an unlikely reason for an emergency meeting of the Kremlin- could it be that the composer hasn’t finished the piece?
    Very Menotti-like. Wouldn’t bother Domingo, as he learns everything on the flight there. I’m stumped. Any other theories? Is PD cancelling?

    on November 28, 2006 at 2:55 PM
  • Baritenor says:

    I Hate euphemisms.

    My guess is the obvious one: Domingo doesn’t like his costume. or something else.

    on November 28, 2006 at 2:58 PM
  • Anonymous says:

    I predict a flop for this opera. It would probably be visually stunning as it is Asian-inspired, look at Butterfly, but who really has what it takes to be the next Verdi or Puccini or Mozart nowadays? Just what I think.

    See more of me by clicking operachanteuse.

    on November 28, 2006 at 4:56 PM
  • Just Another Tenor says:

    Darling La Cieca, please please please will you host a chatroom for us tomorrow evening, so we can jab about Idomeneo and Mr Levine?

    on November 28, 2006 at 5:33 PM
  • Chalkenteros says:

    How does one pronounce “TBA”? Is that eastern European?

    on November 28, 2006 at 7:44 PM
  • il tenore di grazia says:

    Domingo said in an interview that I read recently that some of his music had some low notes that he had no intention of singing and that he would likely ask the composer to change the octaves. Could this have developed into a crisis?

    on November 28, 2006 at 9:27 PM
  • OperaGhost7 says:

    Relax, it’s just costume problems that will get resolved.

    The piece is long finished and PD sounds great. No major crises.

    and, Opera Chanteuse? um….why?

    on November 29, 2006 at 3:06 AM
  • Anonymous says:

    operaghost,Why what?

    on November 29, 2006 at 4:34 PM
  • il_guarany says:

    opera_chanteuse: I think he was wondering “why” you think it’s going to be such a colossal flop. All you did was suggest that Tan Dun is no Verdi or Puccini or Mozart. In terms of strength of persuasiveness, the logic of the argument is flawed: you could also say, “Wagner was no Mozart.” So what?

    on November 30, 2006 at 9:14 AM
  • Anonymous says:

    Just my opinion at the time. And plus I don’t like operas without melodies. And I predict this one won’t. The “Wagner was no Mozart” bit you wrote is so true. He didn’t have a voice culture, as Angela Gheorghiu puts it. He could also have benefited the use of an editor like Tenore here.

    on November 30, 2006 at 3:48 PM
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