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A reader sends us this page from the Los Angeles Opera season brochure for 2008-2009. (Click on the image to enlarge).
La Cieca wonders if perhaps this production was originally planned for Giulietta Simionato and Mario del Monaco...
La Cieca wonders if perhaps this production was originally planned for Giulietta Simionato and Mario del Monaco...Labels: 2008
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Not only Giulietta and Mario, but Tebaldi was the Micaela and Bastianini the Escamillo: "Any bull you can throw I can throw further, I can throw any bull further than you." "No you can't." "Yes I can, yes I can."
I don't know anyone who even goes to the LA Opera...yaaaawn.
I know lots of people who go to the LA Opera and love it. Try it out first before you make such a snobbish comment.
You've obviously never been to the LA Opera, Jeffie-Poo.
Yours,
Snob
Why on earth in Italian?????? It's one thing to do something in translation in the local language, but it's like choosing to do Traviata in German for Florida Grand Opera just because there's some translation of it from some obscure German house somewhere.
Has anyone else ever seen Carmen in Italian? Is it any good?
If you can trust the LA Opera website, it will be performed in French. It was last time, not that it really mattered. I find the best thing about going to the LA Opera is I almost always manage to find a free parking space.
Oh for god sake's, IT'S A TYPO! It will obviously be performed in French.
you are all missing the real scandal, which is that someone who sings Maddalena at the Met and Covent Garden has been promoted to Carmen by this house.
ah, but the real story is Genia Kuhmeier's LAO debut as Micaela, which should redeem the rest of the lackluster cast. she made her MET debut last fall as an exquisite Pamina and will reprise the role in 2 seasons.
Vizin can't be any worse than Malfitano, who was the last LA Opera Carmen. I'd rather see Kuhmeier, if she is really that good, in the San Francisco Idomeneo, where she will sing Ilia.
I'm sure it's a typo.
Vizin was, at some point if I'm not hallucinating, listed for Carmen at the Met as well for next season - but that disappeared from Met Futures after they switched Hoffmann for Carmen this season.
Vizin was the Carmen here in Pittsburgh a few seasons ago. Attractive voice, beautiful woman and good actress but the voice is on the small side and VERY short on top. The higher lying climaxes went for nothing. In her defense, she was saddled with a chubby, pasty Eastern European Don Jose, who's name escapes me and probably always will, who brought absolutely nothing to the role.
If the dancer in the picture with the cute tummy in actually in the production, I don't care if they sing it Esperanto.
I just got an email from LA Opera and they apologized for the typo...It's actually going to be perfomed in Spanglish!
I second Winpal's post; that dancer is yummy.
The real scandal is Raymond Aceto as Escamillo. I, mean, c'mon ... is it that bad out there? Wasn't Mark S. Doss available or anyone else from the old folk's home?
The real scandal is Raymond Aceto as Escamillo. I, mean, c'mon ... is it that bad out there? Wasn't Mark S. Doss available or anyone else from the old folk's home?
"Sizzling"? "Power over the opposite sex"? I don't know how sexy on stage Julie Sim was, but this ad seems to been written for J. Crawford (Rain) or divina Rita Hayworth as Gilda. Oh yes, they both did Sadie Thompson.
It doesn't matter who does Carmen- or in what language- it's such a non event.
Oh, it's a typo? See, THAT'S how batshit crzazy opera world is these days - I assumed it was true.
Would it really surprise anyone? IS it true!?!?!
I have heard both really good things and really bad things about Vizin - I'd like to hear her live.
I don't think there is any problem with a Maddalena being promoted up to Carmen - it happens all the time - and sometimes less than spectacular Maddalenas are AMAZING Carmens - Maddalena is unforgivingly low, and sometimes mezzos are better Carmens than their Maddalenas would suggest.
I've seen Sansone e Dalila sung in Italian at the Verona Arena with Fiorenza Cossotto and Gilbert Py (a French singer). Up until the 1970s, a lot of Italian houses sang foreign operas in Italian, German houses in German and English ones in English. Now that everyone sings the original, you don't get such distinctive singers, national styles and most diction in all languages is terrible. I don't care about Victoria Vizin in the last RO revival of Carmen. Will Nancy Hidalgo Ferrara (or whatever) be any good in the next one? Or do I mean Nancy Fabiola Herrera?
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