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La Cieca hears the good news that Ruth Ann Swenson has recovered well enough from her cancer treatment to jump into a couple of performances of Maria Stuarda at the Opéra de Lyon this past week.
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Ruth Ann Swenson as Maria Stuarda substitutes Patrizia Ciofi who was announced both in Lyon and Paris (I think the change was a good one in this case…).
oh come on ANONYMOUS!!!!! Exercise some class!!!! Opera is humanizing. How about showing that you have a shred of humanity somewhere!
It seems she was in very good voice:
http://www.forumopera.com/concerts/stuarda_lyon070926.html
Good for her. I wish we had gotten a chance to hear her in the NYCO Agrippinas. Though I am interested to hear Miriciou. I haven’t heard her sing in about 13 years. How old is she now? She must be well into her 50′s.
Watch for news from the ROH that Jonas Kaufmann will be singing his first Cavaradossi’s, next May. He’s apparently not replacing anyone because the tenor hadn’t been announced.
Re: Swenson, she is battling cancer. Regardless of one may think of her artistic abililties, I’m astounded at the comment that anonymous posted.
A person I greatly admire just died of uterine cancer. This disease is not something to be flip or nasty about.
About the Forum Opera reviewm it also states that one is, quite simply, bored, that one listens and nothing more… I am glad if her health is good but it seems that once again she was boring and placid even in a somewhat passive role.
I think she had cancelled the Agrippina’s because she felt she would not have had time to learn it. But Stuarda she has done before.
Thank you La Cieca for deleting those nasty and unessesary comments from the “anymous” posters.
La Cieca is a humanist =) We love La Cieca
Now the question will be, will he delete equally nasty postings from people who add a name to them?
Ms. Swenson sang a heartfelt and heartbreaking Marguerite for Cincinnati Opera. In the final scene, she emerged in her post-chemo hair, making her character even more haunted and poignant. I found it an act of tremendous courage. She was all graciousness backstage–with a beautiful strawberry blond wig.
Brava!