sexy bis
La Cieca’s spy at least night’s performance of La Fille du Régiment assures her that, yes, indeed, Juan Diego Florèz did take a “bis” of his first act cabaletta. “Tonight the ovation was far longer and louder than before (perhaps for fear of getting short-shrift as the old folks on Saturday did), and the encore was again followed by a big noise, standing,” the eyewitness at the Met reports. The “bisometer” score therefore stands at 2 encores per perfomances or .667.
Well.
Does Hayley Westenra even NEED a bra?
No encore on Friday evening. The aged Friday night subscribers could not be aroused into a sufficient frenzy for the Met to feel that “the public wanted it ENOUGH”. The encore-needers were clearly pissed at their seatmates for refusing to participate in the desired fifth degree furor.
The performance seemed a good bit more professional as a result. Florez still laid on a good bit of posturing during his “Pour mon ame’ curtain call. He only did about eight things this time, as opposed to the previous performance where he did about fifteen.
Klingsor:
Maybe I’m overly sensitive these days about age-related snarky remarks, and I wasn’t able to get my walker, or access-a-ride to help me get to the MET on this Friday to join my fellow senior-citizens…but every time I’ve been to the MET this season(quite a lot) the audiences have been, on the whole, this season(of course, times , and prices being what they are, most of them seem to be Euro’s)
I just find age , used as a derisive comment to be …boorish…sorry..!
PS…was cut off…I meant to say the audiences this season have looked younger in age than I have noticed in a long time….
No, there was no ‘bis’ last night (May 3) at the Met “Fille,” and I for one did not mind a bit. Florez was SUPERB the one time around, and that was all he needed to be. This having been my one “Fille” perhaps, I didn’t see what Klingsor characterized as “posturing” from the tenor. To me he seemed genuinely touched by the rousing reception the audience gave him and only broke a couple of times to bow deeply and touch his heart as the applause went on and on. . . Personally, I find this ongoing preoccupation with “who gets” and “who doesn’t get” an encore rather puerile.
Sorry–I’m just having my coffee–I meant to say May 2 for the Friday “Fille” date.
Also just want to be clear–I don’t have a problem with an audience expressing real enthusiasm for an artist’s performance and wanting to see if he or she can be induced into performing an encore–it’s just this “well, he did one last time, so I want MINE” kind of thinking that I frown on, as though Susie got a bigger piece of cake than I did.
If you listen carefully to Florez on that Sat. broadcast, he seemed a little tired. I have heard him many times and there definitely was a difference. That’s the reason he didn’t do the encore. He made the right decision.
Mitts off Kiri … or here comes Johnny!!
when an audience geniunely goes wild, and trust me for Florez there is always a nice opening cheer and it then falls.
With the performance of the Bis, he didn’t have wild applause..I have heard Corelli get as much if not more on entrance. It was a good hand.
It was agreed to BEFORE he sang, which NEGATES the lovely hysteria completely in my book. You get a bis when everything is perfect, when you have driven an audience wild.
He obviously bissed it in lesser theaters where they bis the berti’s, and he MUST have asked Armigliato if it warrants, May I repeat? You can only in a house that let’s you do it.
Hitherto the performance of the WELL publicized BIS, remember Gelb is a publicity whore.,the Met strictly forbid it.
My friend who sat boxes over the orchestra noted NO ONE turned forward after the aria, instead they turned back to the beginning of the aria just as he finished the aria before the reaction. It was planned. and that is why so many are beefing about it.
He sings the c’s very well and they are the best part of his voice. The rest, I am sorry to say is quite ugly. It is straighttone in legato, which is not legato, it is under volume altho with a nice ping. I do not like a bleat in a voice. He has one.
She has one too. A real white tone, straight tone and horrendous high notes. Must she be always sideways in the air for the high Eb?
Not my cup of tea.