Comments on: our long national nightmare

By: DJEDUSHKA

DJEDUSHKA — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:27:52 +0000

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

By: Regina delle fate

Regina delle fate — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:20:12 +0000

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.

By: Meretrice Vieira

Meretrice Vieira — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:12:02 +0000

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.

By: sugarmezzo

sugarmezzo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:38:50 +0000

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.

By: Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:08:36 +0000

La Cieca, I love the headlines you put on your posts, sheer genius.

By: Idreno

Idreno — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:40:39 +0000

Yes, probably he was not there he confused “Mira d’acerbe” with “Mira, o Norma”

By: Lindoro Almaviva

Lindoro Almaviva — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:41:53 +0000

Bastard was probably not even there.

By: Emilio Marty

Emilio Marty — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:38:42 +0000

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’….

By: brett

brett — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:48:17 +0000

I don’t know who should be most insulted — Gaertner, Zajick, or the Times readership.

By: tannengrin

tannengrin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:31:00 +0000

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…)

By: scifisci

scifisci — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:00:44 +0000

The sad thing is….it isn’t even dark.

By: Sanford

Sanford — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:54:27 +0000

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.

By: tristesapprÃªts

tristesapprÃªts — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:29:52 +0000

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