Tit for tat
La Cieca has Maury D'annato to thank for (passively) calling her attention to the blog The Opera Tattler, which in recent days has been detailing next season's plans in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other opera companies of the Transhudson. (The) Opera Tattler also reviews a lot of West Coast opera, and at least so far as La Cieca has read, his (?) blogatorial voice is either very arch or very sincere, either of which is fine by me. ("However, perhaps I should go to Bayreuth in 2009, since I will have the time," writes the Tattler. How can you not love that?)More bloggerei (in Italian, but it's penetrable enough) may be found on the wild 'n' wacky site Opéra Bouffe, one of many various efforts by the lovely and apparently tireless Giorgia Meschini. At the moment attention at the Bouffe is split between the"new" Zeffirelli production of Tosca at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and the recent purchase of "le boat slippers dell'Adidas, blu e oro. Con 'Respect' stampato sulla linguetta... 'firmate' da Missy Elliott." Bloggy!
Then Opéra Bouffe pointed your doyenne to the utterly necessary Schrott-Locator ™: ¿donde está Erwin?. Even Barihunks doesn't have this level of detail.
Labels: 2008, 2009, barihunk, blog, maury d'annato, opéra bouffe. barihunk, san francisco, the opera tattler
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Oh, thank you. :)
(I'd like to put the stress on that "apparently" - I'm not really tireless, in fact I'd like to take a nap right now, but I also have to arrange some dinner so I can't...)
p.s.: my blog "points" to the Schrott-locator as, well, I'm the webmistress to that site too. :)
p.s.#2: more than on the Tosca production at TdO in general, at the moment I'm actually focusing in particular on a very, very cute horn player of the TdO's orchestra... ;D
Ramey is singing Boris?? I'm sorry but with that wobble, a lead role is going to require alot of anti-nausea pills to get through. Don't get me wrong -- the guy can still hit all the notes but supporting roles seem much more appropriate. And even then, those roles need to be chosen carefully. Boris sounds like too much to take on at this point.
I he is the tat then you are the tit?? Well, I neva...
I'm quite skeptical of the Ramey as Boris as well, Gockley really wants those famous names, I guess.
La Cieca, I'm charmed to make your acquaintance! I am already on my way to Bayreuth in 2009, having just renewed my membership to the Wagner Society of Northern California. ;)
giorgia: we need a photograph of the player and his horn.
Well, I'm afraid I can't do with just a photo... :D
Well, Opera Tattler, you really *are* a piece of work. Not only did you clutch your pearls like crazy when called to task on your wildly uniniformed review of The Turn of the Screw in Oakland --it's always a bad sign when someone writes "I don't know much about 20th century opera" while reviewing a....20th century opera-- you've since gone in and deleted those comments. Tsk, tsk. Heat, kitchen, etc.
Henry: Take my retraction of my comment to Alice Evans as an aknowledgement of your correctness. ;)
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