Headshot of La Cieca

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  • manou: Gérard? 12:07 PM
  • whatever: oedipe: i dont follow your point on the “matching 221; of the pension contribution and the... 12:05 PM
  • oedipe: Oops, Le Baron MoRtier… 11:52 AM
  • Clita del Toro: Manou, I was just joking. 11:44 AM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor: There was a letter from Levine to his colleagues at the MET posted on 12 May 2012 backstage... 11:36 AM
  • Evenhanded: Well. Thanks Semira! I spend almost zero time looking through videos online, so I had never seen this... 11:19 AM
  • manou: Clita – I was quoting the NyPhil website posted by oedipe. 11:15 AM
  • oedipe: Manou, As we all know, Le Baron Montier is a WIZ! 10:59 AM

yes, there is such a thing as bad publicity

You have to hand it to Gérard Mortier: he manages to get press coverage in most unexpected places!

15 comments

  • jatm2063 says:

    Cassandra: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • Thackeray Gnomey says:

    Maybe they could get the delightful soprano Perez (as in Ailyn) instead.

  • il lacerato spirito says:

    At the end of Aknaten, wiating on line with the mother of a prominent diva, I asked what she thought.
    She said “The man is a genius, a genius I tell you.
    four notes and he made an opera.”

    Them old girl stage mammas Knew from what they spoke.
    >—-still laulghing!!!

  • Oh, Cassandra, your one-liner has cheered me up after the bile from a respected author on another thread.

  • gracegolden says:

    So far Glass has given us operas about Gandhi, Colombus, and Akhnaton, so a Glass Disney could be a long thing with Scrooge McDuck sitting on his cash in his money bin and singing minimally about Values, while the Beagle Boys, Huey Dewey and Louie, and Magica deSpell explore the meaning of it all in C-E-A flat over and over.