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by | 12:49 pm | Oct 2, 2008

Photo Marty Sohl Metropolitan Opera

During an intermission at the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night gala (was that only last week?), Susan Graham interviews Ramón Vargas and Renée Fleming. Miss Fleming’s wig, we are told, is made of yak hair, but what’s Susie’s excuse?

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  • Thackeray Gnomey says:

    Well, the famous Munich production, as conducted by Kleiber and starring Gwyneth, Brigitte and Lucia, is also a riot of bad taste, but in a kind of authentic way.

    There is, of course, the whole question of how much of a lady the Marschallin really is … She’s a wonderful woman, of course, but also a bit of an urban cougar and not beyond a little gentle bitchery here and there.

    Vienna’s craziness is a bit too suppressed for me, but the place has a morbid fascination to it. Just don’t mention politics to a third of the men in the street, to judge by recent election results.

    on October 6, 2008 at 9:25 AM
  • Scaramuccio says:

    Indeed, and it got a lot worse (the Schenk production) in Vienna. Fungus the Bogeyman ran riot in the Marschallin’s boudoir.

    And the election results are horrifying, but let’s just hope it was a stupid tactical vote to express discontent with the present incompetence. I have no problems with the Viennese I know as most of them are the children of Jewish citizens who returned after the war. This, understandably, makes them chain-smoking neurotic kind of folk, but all interesting.

    on October 6, 2008 at 10:04 AM
  • Thackeray Gnomey says:

    I went to a discussion in London a few years ago where the Viennese writer Robert Menasse — highly charismatic, of Jewish extraction and almost certainly a chain-smoking neurotic when it suits him — gave a wonderfully bad time to the Austrian cultural attache who was on the same panel.

    on October 6, 2008 at 10:13 AM
  • Joey says:

    Ha! I love it! Susan has such a nice casual style, but when she gets all dolled up she makes some pretty interesting choices…and what is her excuse w/ the hair?

    on October 10, 2008 at 3:28 PM
  • mrmyster says:

    I see that S. Graham is slated to return to the role of Oktavian in a coming season at the Met, yet both Houston and SFE are rumored to be presenting her as the Marschallin in the relatively near future. Strikes me she is more the senior lady than the junor gent at this point — at least ini physique, and probably vocally. I deem the Cavalier a much more demanding role vocally than the Prinzessen von Wertemberg, ja ja? Anybody inn Ciecaland know the truth of this matter?
    FLORA
    del Marinara

    on October 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM
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