are they all like that?
La Cieca has heard that New York City Opera General Manager (Designate) Gerard Mortier is planning a new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte for the 2012 season, directed by Austrian film director Michael Haneke.
This will be the director’s second attempt at operatic production, following his 2005 Don Giovanni for the Paris Opera (revived and filmed in 2007) — also under the aegis of Mr. Mortier. Haneke is currently in New York for the March 14 premiere of his new film Funny Games, a shot-by-shot remake of his controversial and violent 1997 film of the same name:
I turned Chulius down for BOMARZO. I said, “Let them get that Turner Woman” and they did. I was too busy facing Marcellina.
I could sing Reimann’s Regan *tomorrow*– it’s a question of shrieking and screaming like a banshee.
Ach!… I could sing TRISTAN tomorrow… It’s a question of wobble, no top and small size… ehmm voice. Oh and being in the right corridor at the wrong time!