or as we used to call it, “tuesday”
From Franco Corelli: Prince of Tenors
The battle between tenor and conductor reached a climax when Cillario denied Franco his ovation at the end of “E lucevan le stelle.” An infuriated Corelli flipped his overlong thumb to his teeth in disgust and ran offstage. The audience was left stunned, the orchestra still playing the ascending scale leading to Tosca’s entrance, and Tosca herself bursting on stage to find it empty and the audience buzzing around in a mini uproar. Backstage, Chapin saw Corelli screaming at Charlie Riecker, teeth clenched, eyes bulging. There was no time for discussion. Chapin grabbed Corelli and pushed him back on the stage, where he resumed his role.
They Don’t, with the possible exception of the Iago (Mark Delevan, who’s excellent).
Sorry OMG I’m not a Brit… Even worse I’m a … gasp… Canuck! Just find the Brit bashing that goes on here a little strange. And I wasn’t challenging your opinion – hey you have as much right to it as the next guy – just making a grammatical point. And your right, as the Times of London says in its editiorials – there will be no further correspondence accepted on this subject.
ugh yes, repetitor….rizzin RUINED that trav. Nebs really needed a great conductor to pull off traviata respectably and unfortunately she did not have one. Not even close. She really needs a conductor who will take her to task for her musical inaccuracies.
Speaking of cillario, i love his live norma with deutekom and troyano!
Rizzi was a fairly late substitute as conductor. Wasn’t it originally meant to be Abbado?
I read where Cillario an Argentinian by birth of Italian parents conducted in Odessa, Russia in 1942. Before moving ‘westward’ was the desciption, as the ‘W W 2 conflict’ got worse. A rather startling situation considering such logistics for the time.