Si, parleremo terribile da queste querce antiche
Don't forget, cher public: tonight La Cieca hosts a live chat on the topic of the Norma broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, featuring Maria Guleghina's first local stab at the Role of Roles. Join La Cieca in the chatroom La Foresta d'Irminsul beginning at 7:15 PM.
Dare we hope tonight's performance will be as fabulous as this one?
Dare we hope tonight's performance will be as fabulous as this one?
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12:56 PM
24 Comments:
No, she has much more talent than Guleghina!
Horrible! I couldn't stand hearing it to the end. The wobbling is cacophonously isulting-the worst ever heard. I hope this posting is a joke to show how badly an aria, like "casta diva," can be grotesquely transposed and assassinated.
Well, not so much a "joke" as an unnatural act to amuse the world weary. BTW, where was this filmed?
Thank you. I literally spit my tea out of my mouth when watching this. It's always nice to start the morning with a huge belly laugh!
I always wondered what Mara Zampieri was doing these days and now I know. That Lala McCallan pseudonym didn't fool me!
(Or is it Maria Ewing????)
Oh my god! It's Stefan Zucker!!! LOL
"Hardly in the Suzanne Murphy class!"
Looks like Vicenza to me. Palladio, Palladio, Palladio.
HAHA! Isn't this just Vera Galupe Borsch in "slightly" different guise? lol
I personally find it more entertaining than I expect Guleghina to be tonight. Does it have to start so soon? Dang! Oh well, it's can belto, so I suppose I'll rearrange as best I can...
Thanks for the forum La Cieca, these things are always fun.
Wait... isn't this going to be available on RealPlayer as well??? It was last time...
sorry bartyon francais...tonight is subscription only.
the real player stream of Norma is december 4th
Baryton Francais: I don't think so. I checked the Met website in the hopes that it might be. I guess I'll have to sign up for yet another 3-day trial to sirius under a different email address.
I must say, as amusing as this is (and it is, though I do wish dear Mlle. McCallan would have a session with our beloved Mme. Galupe-Borsch) I still think the best version of this particular aria is the one from last year's podcast of "Dalibor" where our beloved Cieca played the recording of "Renee's first Norma". The interpolations alone are worth it.
~ Maria Richardo de Minneapolis
Aaaaghhh!!!
Have a good time folks... Not much point if I can't hear what you guys are all talking about.
Damn. I'll look forward to hearing your reviews afterwards.
A digression from who can and can't do what to poor Norma - Antonio Pappano and his Accademia S. Ceceila gave a concert performance of Guillaume Tell last Saturday - I cover it a bit on my blog - that was remarkable for the Arnold of American tenor John Osborn. He literally blew the Rome audience out of their seats with Asile heréditiare and Amis, Amis, seocndez ma vegeance.
There will be a live broadcast on RAI3 and Euroradio on Wednesday November 28 at 1930 European time. I believe RAI will have it on the internet.
I listed to the Met broadcast tonight, and I've just listened to this.
This was better.
I listed to the Met broadcast tonight, and I've just listened to this.
This was better.
I have to say this, and I don't know where else to post it. After the lamentable Norma of Gulag-eena tonight, I want to shout to all of you of a wonderful soprano I heard on Saturday. I went to the matinée to hear Damrau's last Königin. The great surprise was the amazing singing of Genia Kühmeier. Not a tiny foot put wrong. Not a phrase unshaped. Divine. Anybody else had this experience?
i agree completely with dirkva...i don't want to say too much about tonight's norma, but i was in house and the first act would have made me leave if it hadn't been my first norma (how sad) and i waited for rush tickets for five hours...there is no way guleghina can think she hit any note above a G...good indication was after "casta diva" the only people cheering were yelling "bravO"...although she did kind of sound like a man at times...anyway, i too went to see damrau on saturday and found kuhmeier to be wonderful as pamina, beautiful clear ringing tone...can't wait to see her again...tonight that memory was solace for a big disappointment
That clip is a total rip off of "The Fifth Element" and Luc Besson did it better. It was funny without being desperate. Love the gowns though.
I was also at the Sat Flute and found Kuhmeier to be a total disaster - straight hard tone, either forced or inaudible, and the top is terrible - stretched and strained. I assumed she was hired so all the focus would be on Damrau - otherwise I thought she should have been bought out.
HEY PEOPLE! Take a deep breath and GET REAL! This is a spoof (ever heard of such a term?)! Did you even get to the middle part, where it goes Techno, and later where she coughts? It is OBVIUOSLY meant for laughs. Plus some of you may not have realized SHE IS ACTUALLY A MAN!!! I wonder where some of you were when the Good Lord was distributing the gift of a sense of humour! LIGHTEN UP!!!
Anonymous (12:16 PM) - are you referring to the clip above or last night's performance?
Now, with all the awareness in the world of the subjectivity of taste, I really have to protest the assertions of balabanov11 about Kühmeier's Pamina. While one is of course free not to like her singing, the technical things he says are simply objectively untrue. Aside from the fact that she was never, ever "inaudible" -- an objective matter that can be measured and proven -- I'm told by a singer who was backstage (a cover for a principal) that she has created a sensation with the other singers who marvel at her perfect technique and marvelous tone, as well as her stately beauty and movement. How you can possibly come up with such things as "strained" and "forced" is simply beyond me. The sound is, in fact, free of wobble and thus what you might find "straight" -- somewhat as some of Caballé's best singing was -- but that is a stylistic option in Mozart and is, unlike much of what you allege -- a matter of taste.
That such a fine, accomplished artist (whom I had never heard before and have no personal connextion with) should be dismissed as "a total disaster" is not only cruel but an offense against the standards we all claim to care about.
Connextion? I guess Miss Austen's *connexion* has corrupted my always execrable spelling.
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