Mad about the boy
La Cieca is all for crossover, but...
In response to several questions from commenters, La Cieca will say, no, she does not believe that Vitas takes "the" high e-flat. However, there is another genetic male on YouTube who does have the note: Lallanzinho!
In response to several questions from commenters, La Cieca will say, no, she does not believe that Vitas takes "the" high e-flat. However, there is another genetic male on YouTube who does have the note: Lallanzinho!
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31 Comments:
Whoa - when did Russian pop star Vitas start making opera videos? That is positively frightening, and to find him on La Cieca just shattered my world!!!
That was very....odd!
Has anyone heard Andreas Scholl's crossover album? That's one boy I'm mad about, but not quite mad enough to shell out for the import.
"Crossover"... shudder.
jazz stylings from a man too? I think.
Horrid.
Good heavens that is an ugly voice. It sounds like late-period Anna Moffo on a cold.
and how did he get Netrebko to dub the ad for him?
Step away from the vocoder, sir.
That was the butchest I've ever seen Clay Aiken.
I simply love mating call imitations!
Anonymous -- where exactly did you "find him on La Cieca?" We do hope you took pictures.
But does he sing the E-flat?!?!?!?!?!?!
Sarah Brightman got a haircut! Who knew! And she handed down two of her gowns to the fiddle girls!
Michael: LOL
Sorry, what language is that???
Oh no wait... I'm getting way ahead of myself...: what THE HELL IS that????
Poor Gaetanino, not enough room in that tiny coffin to be spinning himself so much and so fast... Ahimé!
"Not a *patch* on Our Own Michael Aspinall!" -HRE
Lludmilla di Lammermoor?
He looks to be just a sequin or two shy of channeling the spirit of Liberace. Candelabra, anyone?
I second what Andy said............DOES HE SING THE E-FLAT?~!
I am so confused. I thought I knew Lucia di Lamermoor (sic) by heart, but I did not recognize any of what they were playing. Or was I just distracted by the wild disco beat?
Well, that's quite the adventure up the octave (the second video). LOL
Rysanekfreak: It must the wild disco beat. It is the very beginning of the Mad Scene.
Falsetto vocal line is fake by definition but this is weird and an insult to the honorable castrati tradition. Where and how these people are found? Talking about crossover, Voigt has now joined the cabaret circiut! Maybe this is a good excercise for Isolde, I guess. Now, it's time for Heppner to sing Sinatra tunes to complete the vocal circus!
Missed Opportunities:
Caballe -- Sondheim album
Alfredo Kraus -- Best of Gershwin
Kirsten Flagstad Sings the Blues
Mirella Freni and the Nine Inch Nails -- Together Again!
Kashania: I believe the art of making a crack like that is finding just the right horrific, unlikely pairing, and with Mirella Freni + Nine Inch Nails, you win!
has everyone seen that the Met Futures page has been updated. Anna is on the schedule for 2011-2012 for Anna Bolena.
oh - and, perhaps of more interest to the regulars here, Steven Costello is Percy in the projected Bolena cast.
Kashania: I would die to hear Caballe float her way through "Ladies Who Lunch."
All you guys who've been denouncing this version of Lucia might listen more closely to the music and identify it properly. (Not to be pedantic. But.)
I saw Birgit Nilsson's Nine Inch Nails. In Turandot. The night Domingo DID hit those high notes!
They have been identifying it properly as "Il dolce suono" from the Lucia madscene. I suppose people thought he sang the whole thing and would thus include not one, but two interpolated high Eb's. What makes me more angry than anything with these weird opera euro-pop hybrids is that the singers invariably have so little respect for the music that they can't even bother to learn proper diction. I blame the great floating divette herself, Sarah Brightman for that...her Italian is hideous.
As for crossover pairings, I think Birgit Nilsson and James Brown would have been very nice, or maybe Kiri and Guns-n-Roses...she and Aexel really whooping it up in "Sweet Child of Mine".
Check the Brazilian Edson Cordeiro as Königin der nacht and Carmen on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRSmHd_Sq9U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Zh7XryP2k
And one should not forget Grace Jones singing "Pourquoi Me Reveiller" in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TewgcfSPWK0
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