it’s a boy (but you knew that)
Congratulations to proud papa Erwin Schrott, whose 7 pound, 13 ounce boy TBA Tiago Aura Arua Schrott was born today in Vienna. La Cieca extends her best wishes as well to Anna Netrebko, though she hopes the couple will not allow any cigar smoking in the presence of The Schrott Tot. (“Tiago,” La Cieca is informed, is a Portuguese form of the name “Santiago.)
And so, until January and the return of “la taille fine!”
Oh Miss Kitty Litter, Let me join forces with ‘fatty’ to salute your unbounded wit. hahahahah
I beg to differ, WindyCityOperaman, it is a trepak not a gavotte.
It is actually a landler not a danse macabre.
wait….it is a danse de cours not a danse des cavaliers.
It is a bacchanale not a petit adagio.
It is promenade not a mazurka.
But the important thing is that she trilled…once…mercadante heard it…Netrebko trilled. And now in honor of that ONE trill I am going to go and masturbate. Dammit, I wish she had trilled twice. That would make the masturbation quicker.
In a disgraceful thread hijack, I would like to reopen the recent Ann Murray conversation. I’m just watching the 1983 Salzburg Cosi, which I got from Premiere recently (after 8 months, but hey ho). Murray is a stunning Dorabella- better, although with less voice, than la Baltsa in the same production/ on the recording. As far as the rest of the cast is concerned, I would love to hear what krunoslav thinks of Margaret Marshall, who strikes me as stunningly… um…. competent. Let’s just say I would have been relatively happy to have seen her in the part at ENO and leave it at that.
And- another of my obsessions- what DID become of Araiza?
Her singing of Les Filles des Cadiz reminds me a lot of Sarah Brightman. I think she could have a marvelous cross-over career.
WCO: I too thought she sounded in not particularly great voice.
Did she actually trill? It must have been so short lived that I missed it.
MKL: He might also hang around with a posse of rottweilers that kill all of his enemies in two or three years too. Oh wait, that’s a different movie.
Josephine :
“it’s a trepak not a gavotte”
are you sure it’s not a Fox Schrott?
’cause, boy, that boy can fffffffff
Graciela Scusi
That was the funniest. Thanks for the laugh. I needed it.
Armerjacquino–
Margaret Marshall, I have said, is one of my favorite British sopranos– I think she;s wonderful in teh recordings of JEPHTHA and all those Vivaldi masses. I enjoy the Fiordiligi for her accuracy but I don;t think she’s tonally as good a fit here as some others ( Lorengar, M. Price).
Dorabella– a low soprano role– was ideal for Murray, along with things like Annio. No need to put pressure on the voice, which in things like Serse and Cesare and the Komponist, despite propaganda to the contrary, was less than ideal– it turned edgy. I would remind you, Armerjacquino, that yesterday is not today; in 1983 Maria Ewing was also a very sonorous Dorabella. However good Ms. Murray was then and there, she was still and all an Unnecessary Import on the Met stage as Marcellina last year.
Scottish Opera, early 1980s: Marshall and Murray were a dream pair then. Maggie the Second had a very simpatico stage presence, even if she wasn’t a stage animal.