Le belting
Régine Crespin does her "New York has neon, Berlin has bars" routine on a French variety TV show "Palmarès des chansons" circa 1967. She sings her version of one of the greatest hits of the evergreen entertainer Mistinguett, the chanson "C'est vrai!". A video excerpt of this performance (featuring Mme. Crespin "entourée de danseurs avec plumes") may be found on the Place aux Chansons website.
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Brava, Madame Crespin!
Elle est magnifique !!!
This was about the time she was undertaking the Walkuere Brunhilde.
Hey Regine-ravers, I'm upgrading my Crespin tribute. Check it out @ http://nycoperafanatic.com/blog/crespin-forever/
It's called "Crespin Forever". Amen, the NYCOF
What a hoot!
Thanks, La Cieca.
How fucking vulgar. Are you unable to present opera as it should be, rather than concentrate on the absurdities of diva's singing mindless broadway style dribble. My God, you'll next be penning a homage to the ghastly Rogers and Hammerstein!
How fucking vulgar. Are you unable to present opera as it should be, rather than concentrate on the absurdities of diva's singing mindless broadway style dribble. My God, you'll next be penning a homage to the ghastly Rogers and Hammerstein!
i nominate those two posts be removed. anyone else?
ps: what's so wrong with R&H?!?
I second and nominate a healthy dose of bannination.
I vote for a ban as well....Clearly the person who posted that remark was not actually posting a review, he was giving free reigh to his/her juvenile instincts. I thought the arts intensified one's humanity but obviously this is not always the case. Is the poster aware that Crespin passed away recently? Most cultures have some kind of respect for the departed. My question is "what hole in the ground did that person emerge from?"
The comments of anonymous are out of line. Great artistry isn't served by the stuffy elite attitude implied here. I'm with doug, michaeal farris, and marlys. And there's nothing wrong with R and H--some lovely stuff there, not opera to be sure, but highly deserving of its exalted position in the theatre.
Lighten up, anonymous!
I second that! And, anonymous, at least have the audacity to leave your name! Geez!
The ability to write a good tune is a gift to be treasured. The ability to write dozens, perhaps hundreds, of good tunes happens rarely. Great composers, of course, do more than just write tunes.
If nothing else, Richard Rodgers certainly had the ability to produce good tunes by the bucket load. By the way, our other anonymous contributor needs to remember that Richard Rogers is an architect.
I think they're just baiting us, and not very well; I wouldn't be surprised if this person was the idiot who claimed to be German in some other thread.
I've had two accounts on here (il_guarany and o_guarani, and now neither password is recognized, who knows why). I certainly welcome the chance to post anonymously, but maybe there should be moderation of anonymous dumb rants. If you really want to stick up for your controversial views, then sign in.
For now, girls, just ignore the baiting.
The election of Ban Ki-Moon as Secretary General of the UN has spoiled a litle ditty that can be sung to Richard Rodgers "Some enchanted evening" ... or in this case "Some enchanted Secretary General".
Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Pérez de Cuéllar, Kurt Waldheim, U Thant, Dag Hammarskjöld .... and Kofi Annan plus Trygve Lie are all the "Generals" who are known to me.
There may be others, that I have forgot, but I don't think so .. I think that's your lot.
(And in case someone says that I have missed out Gladwyn Jebb, well he wasn't elected, just a temporary stand in)
Um...WHAT?!
Ummm...right. What is your damage Anonymous?
to all those 'anonymous' comments ... i used to have a blogger ID too under "hab mir's gelobt" but for some reason i cant sign in as that anymore. rather than leaving comments anonymous one can tick 'other' and then enter the old blogger name ... it works this way - though of course without a link to the old account.
Damned cretins....of course their talent should not be wasted on such pointless and crass music. "What's so wrong with R&H?" My God man, musical theatre is such low brow nonsense, designed to ensnare vast quantities of cultureless, unthinking mediocrities.
What's that thing on the front of her skirt?
It's either a sporran or a suicide bomb.
I can counter that claim effectively in two words: Sweeney Todd.
Wow. Tell us how you REALLY feel anonymous.
I, for one, generally don't like musical theatre. And I also, generally, don't like it when opera singers sing music that isn't opera. (note - I haven't watched this particular clip, and so can't comment on it in specifics.)
I ESPECIALLY, generally, don't like it when opera singers sing jazz or the blues or similar with their very operatic voices, and really wreck the music and sound ridiculous.
But I am AT LEAST OPEN to the possibility that great music is great music and can be sung in many styles and still sound like a great singer singing great music.
I mean, there is even SOME (being the operative word) country music that I like - even occasionally music with a high twang factor - it's RARE, but it does happen. And there IS musical theatre that I have enjoyed.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't have value. It might NOT have any value, but it isn't YOUR opinion on that which determines whether it does or not.
Get over it.
Anonymous, you're something else.
And, how many anonymouses out there? Geez!!!
Cheryl Studer, soprano:
More details will be posted as they become available
Bayreuth, Villa Wahnfried, Wagner's music room and library, 3 August 2007
Recital: Richard Strauss Lieder
"Die Zeit ist ein sonderbar Ding"
Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge, Rezitation
Semion Skigin, Klavier
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Seoul (South Korea), 27 November to 7 December 2007
Member of the jury of the Third Seoul International Music Competition
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Jerez de la Frontera (Spain), 15 February 2008
Recital: German Romantic Lieder
Jonathan Alder, piano
Last update: 4 July 2007
I wonder how Anonymous would have felt watching Traubel cut the mustard with James Durante! Ah for the good old days! Anonymous go take a very hot shower, cold is too good for you in this weather.
Melchior in the 30s made a movie with Jimmie Durante, and sang the Prize Song for the world to see and hear, and in the 50s appeared on the Spike Jones show singing fairly well. In the early 50s Kirstin was a regular on the radio on the Railroad Hour,wiht Gordon McCrae,singing Friml-type operetta music, and Matila recently recorded a knockout rentition of Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend.
Sorry for the misspellings on my last entry. And the Crespin stuff has got me interested in Mistinguette.
If we're not going to split hairs and call it an Operetta, the musical KISMET has two knock-out recordings with Opera singers taking the lead: One with Ramey, Julia Migenes, Hadley at the top of his Game, and Ruth Ann, and the other with Donald Maxwell and Valerie Masterson, not to mention the sublime Richard van Allen (am I the only one who loves that guy in whatever he does?)
Dorothy Kirstin, not La Flagstad, if anyone is wondering.
There's a lot to love in early R and H(ammerstein). The If I loved you scene I believe is something Puccini and Korngold (at least) and Poulenc would have recognized as great music theater. And King and I is fantastic theater.
Rodgers and Hart wrote some of the greatest songs ever, even if mostly to books that don't work.
And Regine is sublime, pretty much in all she touches!
baritenor: And don't forget the studio recording of KISMET starring Robert Merrill and Regina Resnik!
Before this goes into the Parterre archives, just 2 words--Howard Keel!
Just want to say I loved the clip of Regine- and always enjoy the forrays into any other bit of theatricality. Please don't change a thing la Cieca!
As for Rogers & Hammerstein - and a heap of other musicals, don't care what anyone says- long before I graduated to become an opera queen, I started out as a musical queen (and love em still).
I feel sorry for the angry mr Annony mouse. Life must be a constant challenge for the poor pet.
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