parterre box

4 comments

• caper says:

  I hope this is resolved quickly, I have made (expensive) plans to see Tannhauser in December

  on October 29, 2007 at 6:04 PM
• Devia_Fan says:

  YES. Strike! Strike! Maybe this will help people understand the BIG load these people take on to provide so much pleasure. They aren’t asking to be rich. They are simply asking not to be thrown out into the dustbin at 40 after providing joy.

  Look at what professional athletes get paid, and they don;t work any harder or do any more damage to their bodies.

  Sometimes when I hear the squealing about Costello – ok he was young – forget the STAGGERING expenses in building a voice. Especially the dramatics, but you cry when they can’t be found. So the singer should find a couple hundred thousand to live off of and develop their voice until they are 37 or 38, and then show up in the opera house for the company to decide that they just might be a wee bit chunky and not a hunka-tenor, or slab-o-baritone?

  Fah!

  From an economists’ point of view this is a labor intensive product, and its got to be paid for one way or the other. So bloody pay for it. Stop expecting it to show up instantly prefab.

  Strike, strike, before the Gelb mentality takes over. I hope board members who put down chunks of change can finally tweak his nose.

  on October 30, 2007 at 12:40 AM
• Anonymous says:

  Absolutely déguelasse. But could we expect anything else from those frenchies (I’m one of them by the way). Most of them will have spend more time to protest than to really work in their life. There is a big difference between a 3rd rate dancer or a chorus member and a solist both in term of work and cost! Why should we pay the fifth beefeater all is life if he retire from that “tough job” at 50?
  Alex

  on October 30, 2007 at 10:06 AM
• Baryton francais says:

  2 things:

  1) The French (and I can say this because I am partially this nationality) are particularly LAZY. On the other hand, Americans also largely work themselves to the bone. It’s the whole work-to-live / live-to-work BS taken to extremes. Big shocker that the French government needs to reform its old ways because they economically cannot sustain such laziness. Anyone in the profession understands the immense amount of work it takes to really make a career, especially when it comes to singing. It is a lifelong sacrifice, and you do not go into this profession to become rich by any means, nor do you expect to be much more than a pauper. You are reimbursed by the ability to do your art and be appreciated for it. You have to be responsible for your own monies and save for your own retirement.

  Professional athletes get paid the big bucks because that’s what people want to pay to see. It’s as simple as that.

  2) La Cieca – What happened to your blog archives? The blogs keep falling off the main page now, with no way to access them again. Can you explain? Thanks.

  on October 30, 2007 at 4:02 PM