Moon, June, Spoon
In an unreleased track from Cecilia Bartoli's new "Maria
" CD (and you know La Cieca dotes on inédits!), the singer/musicologess performs in English! The song is "Yon moon o'er the mountains," which, as you all know, is one of the hit tunes from Balfe's The Maid of Artois.
In less aesthetically pleasing news, a photo of la Bartoli that should have remained unreleased instead currently graces Opera Chic.
" CD (and you know La Cieca dotes on inédits!), the singer/musicologess performs in English! The song is "Yon moon o'er the mountains," which, as you all know, is one of the hit tunes from Balfe's The Maid of Artois.In less aesthetically pleasing news, a photo of la Bartoli that should have remained unreleased instead currently graces Opera Chic.
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What, it's not "musicologette"? [viz: suffragette!]
Oh the cooing, the whispering the breathiness. I am sure she has done her research, and she has perfectly valid reasons to sing this way, but if this is the tenor of the whole record, I am going to need extra insulin shots. And I can't believe that critic said her "Casta Diva" was the best ever. It is just a step away from the former Mrs Lloyd Webber.
Bartoli's singing has long been unbearably mannered. I saw her in recital as long ago as 1992 and found her something of a music-hall (that's vaudeville to you Yankees)turn.
She has obviously been taking Casta diva lessons from the egregious Filippa Giordano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1heO5DaqZw
And that Opera Chic photo makes her look like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
the diction is reminiscent of treb's tagolog version of Manon's gavotte at the vienna opera ball last year
this track is not as inédit as one might think. It is available on the iTunes version of the album.
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Casta Diva lessons! hahahaha. Maybe she should to and take Yodelling lessons from "Australia's Queen of Yodelling - Mary Schneider". After Florens Foster Jenkins, the ultimate party album. She yodels Wilhelm Tell overture, amongst others.
You mention yodelling lessons, Francois ... Well, in a BBC interview last Saturday Bartoli explained that she DID take yodelling lessons for one of the Malibran tracks! Yodel-ay-he-hoooooooo.
Just find the girl a goatherd solitario.
Do I foresee an all Balfe album on the horizon? Or a revival of the unheard since its disastrous première in Liverpool of "The Jolly Miller of Piccadilly Cottage" in Zurich?
On a BBC arts programme La Haspira Gurnette was discussing her Maria 'Must be spinning in her grave' Mailbran CD.
"I ve seen the autograph score of Casta Diva and it should be sung pianissimo, not in the verisimo style that sopranos have sung it up to now"
Caballe Callas etc please take note!!
Whether anyone would hear it if was sung this way in an actual opera house and over a chorus and orchestra was a question that was not asked.
Love and Peace
La Malipasta
Brava, Malipasta!
One gets awfully tired of the "expert" musicologists who try to tell us how things should be, as opposed to those of us who must actually make our LIVING taking into consideration things like the orchestra, the chorus, the size of the stage, and the size of the hall.
Grazie mille!
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