parterre box

13 comments

• 1
  tristesapprêts says:

  March 11, 2008 at 8:29 AM

  When there are corrections, the Times doesn’t usually feel obliged to explain WHY the errors were made in the first place. His CONFUSION over his NOTES? I mean, I know it’s dark in that concert hall, but PLEASE
• 2
  Sanford says:

  March 11, 2008 at 8:54 AM

  And even when they correct it it’s wrong. The name of the duet is “Mira, d’acerbe lagrime”, with di acerbe as a contraction.
• 3
  scifisci says:

  March 11, 2008 at 9:00 AM

  The sad thing is….it isn’t even dark.
• 4
  tannengrin says:

  March 11, 2008 at 10:31 AM

  Now I’m really looking forward to the next reviews. Renayy & JDF in the second Act of Tristan! Miss Voigt singing Zerbinetta! Nebs & Schrott singing the famous, uhm, quintet in the Lucia fountain scene. Eva Podles singing Sieglinde’s Liebestod at the end of Goetterdaemmerung (I’m sure she could…)
• 5
  brett says:

  March 11, 2008 at 10:48 AM

  I don’t know who should be most insulted — Gaertner, Zajick, or the Times readership.
• 6
  Emilio Marty says:

  March 11, 2008 at 3:38 PM

  Dark or not, no one who knows anything about what he’s reviewing could be THAT confused. Presumably he actually wrote the review in the light of day (or fluorescent tubes). Maybe he dictated the review by phone back to the copy desk, and Jimmy Olsen got it wrong. I’m just sayin’….
• 7
  Lindoro Almaviva says:

  March 11, 2008 at 5:41 PM

  Bastard was probably not even there.
• 8
  Idreno says:

  March 11, 2008 at 6:40 PM

  Yes, probably he was not there he confused “Mira d’acerbe” with “Mira, o Norma”
• 9
  Henry Holland says:

  March 11, 2008 at 7:08 PM

  La Cieca, I love the headlines you put on your posts, sheer genius.
• 10
  sugarmezzo says:

  March 11, 2008 at 9:38 PM

  Wait wait wait. I’m totally confused, not having been there myself. Is this correction also wrong? Wasn’t the misidentified singer Aprile Millo? I thought the reviewer was calling Millo Zajick… I’m totally confused. Help.
• 11
  Meretrice Vieira says:

  March 12, 2008 at 12:12 AM

  sugarmezzo, basically they (NYT) got it wrong twice, at least. the first correction was erroneous too. BH first wrote that zajick sang the norma duet with millo, then changed it to zajick sang the trovatore duet with the baritone. then, by the 3rd time, they got it right.

  i find it funny they actually changed the article online, in addition to appending the correction note, because that way they whitewashed the first correction, in addition to the initial article.
• 12
  Regina delle fate says:

  March 12, 2008 at 7:20 AM

  We Brits love “Bushisms” such as misspoke and misidentify – Mr Holland must have been both deaf AND blind – or asleep (it happens to critics) – to misidentify Millo and Zajick singing Mira, o Norma, with Millo and Gaertner singing Mira, d’acerbe lagrime. I have never seen Mr Gaertner, so maybe he is easy to misidentify as Dolora Zajick. Is he a good singer? I’m listening to Corelli’s studio recording of Andrea Chenier right now and, goodness me, what fine singers Antonietta Stella and Mario Sereni were – they would be megastars today in the rep they sang.
• 13
  DJEDUSHKA says:

  March 12, 2008 at 12:27 PM

  Regina delle Fate – I pee my pants everytime I play that CD. You are totally on target with Stella and Sereni