we could sing ‘happy birthday’ tomorrow
August 30 is the anniversary of the birth of a famous Quickly: Regina Resnik!
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And here we have Mme. Resnik in a campy mood, sending up the faux-exoticism of Kismet.
Rather beyond a joke, when language like that is being used. Not that anybody seemed especially amused, other than the Vicar himself, before he resorted to such base vocabulary.
I guess he thinks it’s OK as part of his ‘comic’ persona (and he has more than one on these boards, I’m guessing – sometimes he even talks to himself…)
But to mention this is merely to give more oxygen to the beast…
As a UK resident, I abhor the Vicar’s sentiments, and as a freespirited queen, doubly abhor them.
For shame, Vicar: you’re doing no favours to UK contributors whatsover. Your tendencies might be 70s and further into the netherworld of UK opera but you’re doing the UK contributors of this website even further justisice. As a UK contributor, I can understand your frustration that there is a UK biasis against UK performers but for fuck’s sake, you can only promote UK performers if you behave and accept US viewpoint. Whilst one would like to promote UK performers, your flagrantly antagonistic messages are only ever going to get the backs up of US contributors, especially those who are centred around the main opera areas of the US.
I’d like to hear, for instance, audio justifications of some of the UK performers that you so flagrantly promote. Being a former professional opera singer, and historian into the art of singing, I know that you seem to troll the annals of obscurity without the actual knowledge of some of these singers performance: for instance, would you actually, in good faith, champion Edith Coates, given her recorded legacy which indicates hoarseness outside the chest or head register?
For shame! I can only imagine that the sole purpose of your posts is to antagonise other people!
And to add further to my above post, as a former student of Mr Wakefield, I can assure you he knows absolutely nothing about singing! Which is probably why his career ended so shortly: you can sing “naturally” for only so long before the need for actual technique kicks in. If you spend your capital, no amount of technique is going to cover your vocal threadbareness!
Student? Career? Is further outing not permitted under the circumstances? I’m intrigued, especially as I think I’ve guessed (but if my guesses are as good as the ones in the regiequizzes, no doubt I’m wide of the mark again).
Oh, I guess you mean the real Wakefield – now that’s a different matter. So I go back to blank incomprehension of this trolling phenomenon.
Scaramuccio and I seem to singing the same tune yet again. I know from the UK vocal collegiate system that his nom de plume is just gathering in the shekels for literally no actual vocal compos mentis. I’ve encountered various of his other singing students, and the only reasonably successful ones of those I’ve encountered have either had a natural vocal endowment or have gone onto teachers who have made some sense of their endowment, whether it be exceptional or average.
Vicar: you’ve got to accept the target audience of these posts: sure, it’s international, but the bias is UK oriented. Dredging up people who have performed in the UK but who aren’t known, as soloists, is only going to get you universal derision at best, and universal condemnation at worst!. What levels of your ego are actually served by a knowledge of who has performed what in the UK?
And, Vicar, to take some of your older posts as exemplars:
Charles Craig: sure, a B-list dramatic tenor, who only got, recording wise, some sort of international recogniation from his Peter Moores recording of “Otello”.
Dennis O’Neill: well, I’m familiar with this tenor’s work through live performances like “I Puritani” (where the transpositions were so obvious, it doesn’t bear mentioning), Lucia di L: not bad but certainly not international standard, Trovatore, as Lucia: you really need to come up with some valid comparisons for US and, indeed, world readers of this website to justify some of your claims!
Meanwhile, I’m sure that you simply go on promulgating UK (and sometimes non-uk artists, such as Jennifer Eddy) who have had no international exposure.
Do all UK residents a favour, Vicar, and at least stick to those performers that everyone might know!
Scaramuccio: I’m intrigued. You’ll have to explain futher, Mr sex in specs:-)
The real Wakefied, Scaramucchio? What have you got aurally? Probably an overvwieghted middle register and not much else. Sure, an outstanding natural voice, but that’s where it ended.