meme chanson, meme refrain
“Belgian Gerard Mortier said Thursday he hopes to turn Madrid’s Teatro Real into one of Europe’s top opera houses when he takes over as artistic director, adding that many of his productions would be from the 20th century.” [via AFP]
Gundryaggi, you are really vulgar and crass and whatever pity I had for you is now gone. Yes I am young and felt sorry for you as you seem confused and ilogical at times, while Marshie is sharp as a knife and hits your points one by one demolishing them while at it, but she is a bit heavy-handed as someone else said, and that’s why I took a bit your side, the underdog you know
but now I feel that you are the mean one, really mean, and I am really offended at your condescension:
>You may not have the ability to understand the long post in which I wrote<
what are you my teacher? what are your qualifications to speak to me that way? I am learning very fast, and I do know Elektra backwards and forwards, and nothing you say will make me chnage my opinion of Behrens. I’d like to meet you though, you are a character, will you there on May 9th
My dear seliger alsichgelebt, since you affect a German name you should not have such trouble with — Gundryggia –. I seem to have touched a nerve. Good. Think about it, and kiss your god for me in May.
I BELIEVE NETREBKO WILL BE STARRING IN LEGALLY BLONDE, THE OPERA. and the MET has commissioned an opera based on the movie CLUELESS, to star Fleming and Netrebko.
seliger als ich gelebt, how old are you? are you single? will you marry me? I have a spare ticket for Tristan on the 20th. wanna go?
WEll, Gundryggia gets my vote in the summation of Behrens’ Elektra-ina. When it was first telecast I was busy counting all the compromises Frau Behrens had to make. I was at first mildly miffed, because it was plainly a case of salivating desire on her part to be a credible protaganist. But then I saw the bootleg of Jones and Rysanek, from the same run, and screamed outrage. Behrens and Fassbaender got the telecast? Guppies instead of whales? Something was afoot there. An inarguable fact: Behrens was never an Elektra. She is a generous, giving, electrifying artist, but was never a hochdramatische soprano. All I have ever heard her accomplish in that repertoire is effort. I hear always lunging up, beefing-out, artificial plumping-up of tone. THe discussion here centers on the crucial “Orest!” section, ironically; Behrens’ singing of that is, deceptively, more accessible to her. But it’s not, really. Though she is not heard as forcing per se, there’s a very parlous sense of the tonal output, and it sounds like a chopped-up series of effects which she thinks sounds legit: but her vocal insecurity is so great you can tell she’s playing “find the path.” This method is often construed as a sort of daring tight-rope walk, but she can’t even get the footing in the first place. If the discussion were focused elsewhere in the score, such as the pivotal “Was bluten muss,” you can not even imagine an illusion: she’s totally at sea. How can one even find “compensating factors”? I suppose many are thrilled and are carried away by, and find validation and merit in the display of visible hard work and dedication, but all I see is a scary self-delusion.
I simply adored Polaski in this Elektra but I can’t agree that the voice “has no wobble or fraying.” The top few notes have to be eased into and the ones below that are all kinds of woolly. Just the same, a noble and stirring portrayal of (maybe?) opera’s most compelling lunatic.
Oh Billy I am so touched, I am young and single but I am not in NYC, I just thought it would be fun to go to NYC for Wagner in May, I loooooove Wagner and Strauss more than any body else, but the 20th is too soon, and Tristan e Isolda one of my favorites with Bernstein and Behrens.
Sorry Gundy (is that better?) but I am not German, I am spanish from So America studying in US, no seas estupido
entiendes? Vivan las Divas.
so WHERE ARE YOU, seliger als ich gelebt? come to nyc next weekend!
and how young are you?
seliger als ich gelebt: just out of curiosity, have you heard any other Isoldes? do you have any other recordings? like the Nilsson/Böhm? Flagstad? Mödl?