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to die for

by | 1:14 pm | May 30, 2008

Prince of Puppyliciousness Juan Diego Flórez goes classic this afternoon for Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice broadcast live from Madrid at 2:00 PM EDT. Soprano Nicole Cabell is Eurydice and Jesus López Cobos conducts. To hear the broadcast, open the Radio Nacional de España player.

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34 comments

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  • Nerva Nelli says:

    Gee, Big Jake, thanks for the keen insight, but very few of us are or ever wanted to be singers.

    on May 31, 2008 at 1:30 PM
  • Grimgerde says:

    Danielle de Niese – I want to like her. I can’t sing and don’t know much about the technicalities of voice production, but I can recognise poor intonation. Hope she learns to correct it soon.

    on May 31, 2008 at 1:56 PM
  • Greg (not a de Niese lover) says:

    I saw/heard Ms. de Niese last year in Chicago in Mr. Handel’s little Ceasar opera. Fantastic production. There are few other sopranos that would have been willing to do what Danielle was asked to do (dance, covort half naked on stage) and even fewer who could pull off the half naked on stage. That said, I think she’s a Broadway babe, not an opera star. Her singing was above average for a broadway singer, below average for an opera singer. She was the low point of the evening, music-wise, for me.

    What what a set of t*ts! Even a big ol’ queen like mee appreciates great tata’s when he sees them!

    on May 31, 2008 at 2:08 PM
  • Thackeray Gnomey says:

    What kind of a singer did Jake want to be, then?

    on May 31, 2008 at 2:21 PM
  • Evelynne Learjette says:

    Out of that 2005 Cardiff pack, the finest by current form is Amanda Echalaz – a really impressive big lyric/verismo voice – though not hugely individual. Her Jenufa and Tatyana were most promising, ditto Fiora in L’amore di Tre Re. She takes on Tosca this summer…

    on May 31, 2008 at 2:30 PM
  • High C's @ 4:20 says:

    I think jake is gone… he probably had an operatic engagement or master class to teach… lighten up… were bitchy queens… did he have no idea of what to expect?

    on May 31, 2008 at 2:36 PM
  • Thackeray Gnomey says:

    Evelynne (great name), you are right. In a different league from Wendy Dawn Thomson (standard lyric mezzo) who DID make it to the final.

    on May 31, 2008 at 2:37 PM
  • Thackeray Gnomey says:

    But most visitors to this site won’t be interested, because she hasn’t sung in NYC ;-)

    on May 31, 2008 at 2:37 PM
  • jfmurray3 says:

    While I missed the opera, I feel blessed to add a new word to my vocabulary: “puppyliciousness”.

    Well done, la Cieca!

    Re. JDF – I’d write it as:
    …………C………
    Puppyli iousness to include the high “C”.

    on May 31, 2008 at 8:12 PM
  • Molly Smith says:

    good one jake

    on May 31, 2008 at 8:37 PM
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