A fine kettle
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31 January 2008
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20 Comments:
well, that certainly sounds fishy.
I wouldn't have thought a fishbone could get down a throat that tiny ... despite the unequaled agility that one would expect to trill it out.
hans lick
May I ask how you know the size of his throat, and may I say that I am jealous?
six weeks ... hmmm ... i wonder if that means he'll be ready for fille ... i certainly hope so ... personally very bummed that we won't get him in chicago ... well, now it's officially joyce's show.
The Florez cancellation has been in the press.
In Vienna, on January 10th, several papers indicated that Deborah Voight would not be singing her first Siegfried Bruennhilde as planned on the 27th of April at the premiere and the role would be taken by Nina Stemme who had obtained a great success there in December in the new production of Walkuere under Welser-Moest. Nina Stemme will now be singing 3 premieres in a row in Vienna (Forza is March
1st). There was no reason given in the press for the change from Voight to Stemme.
Lucky fish!
Yep... Already had my ticket... Blegh!
Well, at least we can look forward to Nathan Gunn's Figaro and Joyce Di Donato's Rosina.
John Osbourn, JDF's replacement, is... sufficent. Nothing to write home to mother about, though.
yet you are looking forward to Nathan Gunn, the man with a nice chest and no voice.
chicago.......PFFFT>
For a tenor to write home about - they should cast John Tessier. He is a great Almaviva. NY audiences may have heard him in NYCO's Wild West version of Elixer - and Chicago audience's may have heard him with Music of the Baroque. Really excellent singer and a very funny Almaviva.
A fish bone? John Osborn?? John Tessier???
Is it April 1 already? Someone is pulling our leg.
anyone who heard debbie's sieglinde can hear why she can't sing brunnhilde. She really should have never done isolde and instead done brunnhilde 5 years ago. Now, with her voice in the shape it is, she will never sing brunnhilde.
Maybe with the cancellations people will realize--as someone said in a related discussion here the other day--that the LOC is a nothing house. It looks, feels, and sounds like a gaudy barn. The acoustics deaden everything into a muted mezzo forte. No interest in the repertory, no interest in the productions, just the same old parade of bland, overextended superstars (Voigt, Fleming, Morris). And you have to hear the Chicago accent during intermission.
Hey, Anon, watch what you say about LOC! You're talking about my home, honey.
Off-topic, but just read on the Met website that Klara Barlow passed away. Only a few of you may remember who she ways. (A statuesque lady who sang Isolde and didn't look like a whale).
Just a reminder, folks, that the "new" parterre.com is up and running. Check out the "welcome" posting at the WordPress site.
The Chicago accents? The accents are a problem? Everyone in the world has accents to people from elsewhere. I would think that with the problems LOC is having, the accents during intermission are the least of them. I had dinner at the LOC in a private dining room (thanks to a PBS pledge) with other pledgers and Ardis Krainik. She was a lovely woman. And THey didn't seem to have problems attracting top tier stars. I saw Barstow in Macbeth, Gasdia and Troyanos in I Capuleti, Baltsa in Cenerentola, and if I recall correctly, Araiza in Abduction.
And how quaint this old format feels after using the new one.
Oh, and Florez is swallowing bones and the biggest one he can find is a fishbone?
Scifisci!! Wow, someone had the balls to actually SAY what I think a lot of us are thinking.... What a waste of a wonderful singer. But .... THANK YOU!
Bill -- I'd be tempted to fly to Vienna to hear Stemme as Brunnhilde. I'd hear her in just about anything. God, what a voice on that woman. Her "Mild und leise" was up on YouTube (don't know if it still is), and it blew me away.
Sanford! ROFLMAO at that last comment.....
stemme is one of those sad cases where she really made her met debut way too early. Her voice is (from what i can tell from youtube and have heard from others) something quite special. Too bad it'll be another 3-4 years before she comes back to the met.
If MetManiac is correct, we'd hear her next in 2009-10 doing Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk .... NOT what I want to hear her sing, really, but I might go just to hear her live.
I saw John O last night in NJ Opera's Rigoletto and he was pretty good. I don't think he'll disappoint the Chicago audience... I chatted with him a bit afterwards and I think he knows that it won't be easy to replace JDF, but after hearing him sing yesterday I think he's a great choice for the role. Of course that doesn't make up for the fact that I cried like a girl (oh wait I am one) when I learned of the Fishbone Incident, since my opera and plane tickets are non-refundalbe...
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