Comments on: 20th century fox

By: brian

brian — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:04:46 +0000

hey henry,

what was for lunch? 4 martinis?

By: Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:16 +0000

Instead of sneering at a composer that YOU are unfamilar withâ€¦you might want to check out this site:

Thanks for the link. I never underestimate how timid and risk-averse most opera fans are.

When somebody is little known, I donâ€™t know why some trivia buffs feel the need to pretend otherwise

Oh for fuck’s sake. Yeah, those trivia buffs should have just shut the hell up about Handel, whose opera’s went largely unperformed for 150 years but some of which are standard rep these days.

seems to me that mortier should be focusing on raising funds to resurrect CO (or has he gotten bored with that already)

You *have* heard of multi-tasking right?

By: brian

brian — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:27:49 +0000

seems to me that mortier should be focusing on raising funds to resurrect CO (or has he gotten bored with that already)

with the financial crisis $ for the arts will become the rarest of birds.

By: Caromio

Caromio — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:11:48 +0000

When somebody is little known, I don’t know why some trivia buffs feel the need to pretend otherwise. And they don’t trivia trivia for nothing.

By: Brooklynpunk

Brooklynpunk — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:06:57 +0000

Turnandot:

Instead of sneering at a composer that YOU are unfamilar with…you might want to check out this site:

http://www.classicalarchives.com/artists/weinberg.html

which has excerpts of some of Weinberg’s works—and decide for youself—or for your stud boyfriend…

As for “no operfans ever having heard or seen his work before”, I was at a concert version of “Passazhirka”, in Moscow, in 2006—portions of which were quite beautiful and moving…

By: turandot

turandot — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:18:29 +0000

Yes, I know he who he is. The point is … he’s never written any “classics” or even any opera that any opera fan has ever heard of yet alone seen.

By: allwissende Muschel

allwissende Muschel — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:42:08 +0000

Correction: the Paris Opera website says 7:30 pm, though the Medici.tv site says 6:30 pm.

By: allwissende Muschel

allwissende Muschel — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:39:16 +0000

Judge for yourselves: The Cunning Little Vixen will be streamed live from the Opera de Paris on http://www.medici.tv on November 4 at 6:30 pm French time. It should stay up on the Medici site for a couple of weeks after that, free of charge.

By: jack jikes

jack jikes — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:50:19 +0000

Thanks Lady M for bringing the interview to my attention.
Mortier is brilliant – who else talks about catering to the aged and frail – about the REAL thing in a theater with good sound, not some multiplex – about the sensibility operas actually inhabit, not conventional expectations which amount to viewing a diorama at the Museum of Natural History.
I want to swim in his flood of REGIE THEATER!
Gelb – so far – ‘Satyagraha’ not withstanding – is a major disappointment – but debuts by the likes of Le Page and Chereau loom. Hope springs eternal …

By: jack jikes

jack jikes — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:32:06 +0000

By: High C's @ 4:20

High C's @ 4:20 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:53:59 +0000

Sanford… youve ridden SO MANY LOG FLUMES… please be more specific!

By: Sanford

Sanford — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:46:02 +0000

I still remember (or have heard about so many times, which amounts to the same thing) Dino the Dinosaur at the entrance, and I remember riding the monorail and a log flume.

By: Brooklynpunk

Brooklynpunk — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:15:36 +0000

Turandot:

Weinberg was a compatriot and close friend of Shostakovich; and pretty prolific, in his own right.

Sanford–I inherited my ma’s Heinz pickle pin, from the ’39 Fair—and even though I grew up just miles from Flushing Meadow, only got to the 64/65 Fair–ONCE!!(where I promptly got violently sick, in the fountain of the IBM pavilion–)

By: La Cieca

La Cieca — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:47:07 +0000

turandot: for example,

By: homosangerin

homosangerin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:38:06 +0000

or wikipaedia? ;p

By: homosangerin

homosangerin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:36:55 +0000

Turandot, you’ve never heard of Passazhirka?

By: turandot

turandot — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:26:33 +0000

Classic works composed by Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

Come again?

By: Lady M

Lady M — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:10:02 +0000

Gerard Mortier in action….

http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/gerard-mortier/41

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:51:58 +0000

Oh I would so go to that if I were in NY. I’m not convinced that he’s the right man for this particular job, but he does know his shit when it comes to 20th century opera.

By: Sanford

Sanford — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:42:48 +0000

Well. My mother was ’39 and I was at ’64. ANd I still don’t give a damn about Mortier

By: Brooklynpunk

Brooklynpunk — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:24:31 +0000

La Cieca:

I love your “teaser photo-ad” for this thread—I’m a ’39 NY World’s Fair enthusist (no , contrary to what some might say, I wasn’t there….maybe)

I GUESS/HOPE ? that by this event still on the books, all is not lost for NYCO, yet…?

(sounds very well worth attending—if I had the moola..)