Hunkentenor manqué
In the words of the immortal Leonard Pinth-Garnell, "Monumentally ill-advised!"
UPDATE: The video has, perhaps unsurprisingly, been removed from YouTube. There are a few stills, however, on the tenor's website.
By the way, if you think the costume looks familiar, that's because you've seen it before.
UPDATE: The video has, perhaps unsurprisingly, been removed from YouTube. There are a few stills, however, on the tenor's website.
By the way, if you think the costume looks familiar, that's because you've seen it before.
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the singing is even worse than the clothes ... yikes ... who is that?
An heroic mane:
http://www.marcdeaton.com/images/marc_bw.jpg
I couldn't watch to the end - but I'm shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you - that Carol Neblett would choose this as her comeback role.
Ew... that's all I can say. That and GRODY!
wicked hawt.
i had no idea that THUNDER from "american gladiators" turned to opera after his short-lived television career.
WOW. The singing is much worse than the clothes (as if that would be possible).
By the way, check out how this is done, by a 67 y.o. Giacomini in Korea this year (no breathing between the vinceros at the end) I am amazed. Considering his vocal state and the lack of dramatic tenors, why isnt he singing more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-BU3PBHXVg
Isn't that Robert Plant?
Thanks giacominifan for that link. Truly a lesson in vocal control, though the voice is beyond its prime. What a great singer, and (sadly) a singer to whom I have had too little exposure. It almost wiped out my memory of that horrible mess dressed like "Earring Magic Ken Doll" (las Cieca, you're a mean one!).
Wow, never heard a tenor do the vinciro's without taking a breadth in between. The 1981 rendition from Paris is also excellent.
Mr. Deaton, who is a confirmed bachelor, as they used to say in the days of Mrs. Fiske, has a video documentary called "Becoming Tristan: A Tenor's Journey". It is basically about what seems to be a privately financed recording of "Tristan und Isolde" which costarred Susan Marie Pierson and was briefly available in the shops.
The documentary was shown on PBS this past June as part of that month's gay and lesbian programming.
gualtier:
Well, he certainly does look like a lesbian...
A review of Deaton's TRISTAN can be found at...
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2005/04/wagner_tristan_1.php
I'm afraid my eyelashes are burnt to a crisp!
Oh dear! And here's what a more-or-less genial reviewer from the Pittsburgh paper had to say:
"Deaton imparts sensuality to the love music and is intermittently moving in Tristan's Act 3 madness, but his lightweight voice is overtaxed by the music, and his German is atrocious. He suggests a Hollywood stud more than a medieval hero. And when the going gets rough, his vowels spread and the tone becomes unpleasantly nasal."
JussiLives,
Though to be perfectly honest, when the going gets rough, who among us does not feel the urge to spread his vowels?
I missed the YouTube video, alas.
However, I saw the still photos on Marc Deaton's site, and I agree that a certain outfit does look like Earring Magic Ken's famous threads, although not the same color. Also, is it me, or does he look a little like Benny Hill in some of the still photos? Yikes!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw the resemblance to Benny Hill. All I could think of whilst watching the Youtube was: "A lack of talent is not enough."
While it is always fun to have fun at a performer's expense. Did it ever occur to publish some of the good reviews? The costume is perhaps provincial and not the most flattering, but do you think he picked the costume. As for the singing, it is always about personal taste, but plenty of people have and are hiring this tenor. I think it is really easy to ridicule and condemn, but just remember he is making a living as a singer, and many people here will never do that, they are too busy hating people and doing drag.
He does not have a particularly Italianate voice, but he phrases well, and has all the notes, which is more than I can say for many I have heard recently.
At least this tenor had the courage to allow himself to be filmed for a documentary and to be out and proud. This ZIne usually has some dignity, so I am providing it to this thread.
The Tristan in question is still available on Amazon, archive music, and in stores (What stores are left?) Here are some other reviews for those interested, but then it is probably more interesting to mock!
Classical Singer
Marc Deaton takes the killer heldentenor role of Tristan and creates a musical and dramatic presence here, emphasizing the lyrical but doomed quality of this adulterous knight.
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Orpheus Oper International
Marc Deaton as Tristan has a beautiful lyrical quality and brings great meaning to the text. His upper tones remind one of Konya in their ringing sweetness.
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MusicWeb International
…soon you realize that there is a brilliant mind behind this voice. Here is a singer who has thought himself into the part he is creating. He has a fine legato, he can produce the thinnest of pianissimos without crooning and he has lots of power. There is real Heldentenor-ring in this voice and when the two lovers build up the ecstasy at the end of act one, and even more in the love-duet of act two, we feel that we can almost touch their lust, remembering Ingmar Bergman’s describing this music drama as ‘a five-hour-long sexual intercourse’. What is impressive is to hear the two main protagonists singing their demanding parts without tiring, without having to resort to barking, which can be the case in many live performances.
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Tower Records
Marc Deaton is Tristan, and if my ears do not deceive me, he is a dramatic tenor who should be cultivated and cherished by the opera world. The voice is sizable and has a beautiful timbre and the ability to sing the full dynamic range, pianissimo to fortissimo, that Wagner composes. His ability to sing the alternately lyric and hysterical passages of Act III with a fully supported, seemingly tireless legato tone is really remarkable. There is no barking, no resort to sprechgesang to cover for a tiring voice; it's all fully sung, and without any trace of wobble. I would be remiss if I did not also say that Deaton's dramatic understanding of this, the most psychologically complex part in the opera, is full and detailed and shows great sensitivity to word meanings and tonal coloration, with first-rate German. Again: an excellent portrayal, both vocally and dramatically.
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Music and Vision
Marc Deaton sings the part of Tristan with a robust sound and gives an intense portrayal of the doomed hero. He has a large voice and he uses its varied colors to create his character. In Act II, he and Pierson together compel the listener to drop any other pursuit and pay complete attention to the engrossing love story. Their appealing dramatic voices blend with romantic fervor in the exquisite duet "O sink hernieder." Later, they express their desire to die rather than live without each other in a splendid rendition of "So stürben wir um ungetrennt". This recording is sensitively engineered and it exudes the energy that can only be gathered at a live performance. Many of the older versions have quieter backgrounds but they do not give you the feeling of being present in the theater the way these CDs do. As you listen to this rendition you feel you are sitting in the tenth row center, absorbing a complete performance of Wagner's glorious music.
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AmCham Bulgaria Magazine
The quality of the concert was world-caliber. Tenor Marc Deaton and soprano Susan Marie Pierson were ideally suited for their roles both vocally and visually. Deaton brought heroic power and great lyricism to Tristan, capturing the character's tragic consequences with great strength and vocal beauty. He never seemed to tire, even in the long passages of Act III.
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Opera Japonica
Deaton, who is known in Europe and parts of Asia for heavy roles including Otello, is a worthy Tristan with a sonorous dramatic sound; the CDs of this live performance should be a welcome addition to any Wagner collection.
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