curses!
Has it really been nearly two months since our last “serious” vocal identification quiz? (By “serious,” La Cieca means of course not only for glory but for the coveted amazon.com
Whichsoever one of you is first to email La Cieca with all 14 names in the correct order will not only be crowned “Irlands Königin,” but will receive a supersized amazon.com
8 and 13 are still bothering me. No way is 8 Leonie, and I may change my mind about 10. But I’m not sure what to.
La Cieca, you’ve created a community thing here and even though you’ve spec’ed it out was competition to be answered by email, this kind of a group is going to enjoy socializing their thinking just as much as getting a gift card. It’s all good.
8 is definitely not Rysanek. I’m not sure who it is, but it isn’t Rysanek.
Ricardo Muti. Chicago Symphony. Discuss.
Natalie Dessay. Santa Fe. Her first La Traviata’s. Discuss.
In re the CSO: it’s got to be better for operatic programming than Barenboim– aside of course from interpolated acuti.
Dessay in SF- It will be applauded reviewed as if a triumph, as was teh Amina, which really waq not very convincing or effecti8vely sung. And her voice had at least somewhat more colour back then.
Sanford,
Chicago pissed its collective pants when we heard the news. (Well, at least some of my colleauges did. I certainly experianced some dampness this morning)
We, or rather, I can’t wait to welcome our new Music Director.
¡Arriba Muti, mamis!
i am willing to agree with you, Nerva… but the production of Sonnambula was truly stupid, too. Will be interesting to see where Nats voice is in 2009.
I’m not sure Muti will be better than Barenboim was operatically. For a while there Barenboim was doing concert opera at the CSO pretty regularly, and completely showing up the Lyric in the process (not that that’s hard). But Muti will be welcome all the same, even if the most effective way of enlivening Chicago would be to sack Andrew Davis, the world’s most boring conductor.
I thought Dessay’s Violetta had been delayed until 2011?