Climb ev’ry montage
Let us put away gloomy thoughts for a while and enjoy the singing, acting, dancing and costume-changing skills of inimitable Anna Moffo.
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Sanford, my angel, no offence meant, it’s just that when I was a girl a lot of the audience were young gay guys, and I mean young, 15+ and upwards. When I go these days it’s a more of a youngish married middle class couples type of audience. Is it because do you think, that 30 years or so ago, young gay guys looked to older gay guys for guidance in their artistic education in a way they don’t seem to these days?
WAAAY off this thread—didn’t know where else to put it, but…
Anyone listening to “PARSIFAL”, BEING BROADCAST RIGHT NOW, LIVE , from the opening performace of the ’08 Bayreuth Festival?–only an hour into it, but it doesn’t sound too shabby….(repeated on the net, Saturday….)
PARSIFAL:
Dirigent Daniele Gatti
Inszenierung Stefan Herheim
Bühnenbild Heike Scheele
Kostüme Gesine Völlm
Dramaturgie Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach
Chorleitung
Eberhard Friedrich
Amfortas Detlef Roth
Titurel Diógenes Randes
Gurnemanz Kwangchul Youn
Parsifal Christopher Ventris
Klingsor Thomas Jesatko
Kundry Mihoko Fujimura
1. Gralsritter Arnold Bezuyen
2. Gralsritter Friedemann Röhlig
1. Knappe Julia Borchert
2. Knappe Ulrike Helzel
3. Knappe Clemens Bieber
4. Knappe Timothy Oliver
Klingsors Zaubermädchen Julia Borchert
Martina Rüping
Carola Guber
Anna Korondi
Jutta Böhnert
Ulrike Helzel
Altsolo Simone Schr
brooklynpunk – thanks for the heads-up. I’m now listening online.
Pavel:
What “station” are you listening on.?..for some reason I’m having a very hard time keeping the stream from breaking up on the German radio staions, and am finding the only one that remains consistant is BartokRadio, from Hungary…which doesn’t have the greatest sound quality..
Thanks!
brooklynpunk – I’m listening on Bayern 4 Klassik . I’m getting very good sound with no breakup.
Aprile Millo is doing that at Caramoor next year.
If any of you want to see more of Bekim Fehmiu, check out Tinto Brass’ “Salon Kitty.” It’s filled with full frontal male nudity, including Bekim, and is such a bizarre, artsy 1970s Nazisploitation flick.
I went to Netflix to search for this film and this is the description I got: “In this cult favorite from John Boorman (Beyond Rangoon), 23rd century society is split into two castes — the overly civilized Eternals and the barely civilized Brutals — one of which is constantly controlling the other. The Brutals worship a huge stone figure known as Zardoz. When Zed (Sean Connery) begins to question the authenticity of this god, the film is able to offer some pointed commentary on class structure and religion.” It took me a moment to realize I didn’t have the right one:)