No answer?
Curiously, the response to La Cieca's challenge to identify the ten "wrong numbers" she reached whilst trying to phone Milton Host has evoked something less than the usual excitement associated with an Unnatural Acts of Opera quiz. As such, your doyenne will make it easy for you by making available an excerpt from the Vestale podcast with just the "riotously funny" bits. So, it's up to you, chers commentateurs: who are all these people?
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Can't place them all - but Rosiland Russel is definitely in there. I just LOVE her!
Couldn't get everybody, but I'm quite sure that was Roz speaking gibberish, followed by Tallulah of course, and later on Bette Davis (channeling Joan Crawford in Baby Jane--easy!), Ethel Merman (Call Me Madam) and Jayne Mansfield. The "Mr. Whitaker" bit is tantalizingly familiar, but I can't place it.
Was the second opera diva Steber?
Denise Duval in "La voix humaine"? Alec Baldwin?
I thought it must be Steber doing the Telephone aria from her big nine hour Judy at Carnegie concert, though I've never heard the Menotti and only thought so because it's pretty surely Steber and I know she sang it.
Way back when in this site we had a discussion on the sounds of various divas' voices--who had memorable timbres and who didn't. I realized that I had no memory of what Jane Mansfield's voice sounded like. Her face and her boobs are still memorable, but her voice had fallen out of my memory. Monroe's voice is recognizible forever; so with Merman.
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