a damned shame
Brothers under the Lederhosen: Alice Coote and Helmut Berger.
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Why anyone would waste a singer of Coote’s caliber on roles like Orlovsky and Hansel is beyond me … I never understood why Troyanos was singing them either … to name a not inapt comparison …
I don’t see the difference between Alice Coote and Helmet Berger. apart fromt the fact that they were both hot and spontaneous sex partners. Helmut had no singing voice but he did have a beautiful body and a big, er, thing. He was a great sex
mate. Well, from what I hear, so is Alice. Still she is astounding in recital and truly riveting on stage. A great singer.
I heard Kirshschlager very early on as Cherubino in a San Francisco Marriage of Figaro; she was by far the best singer on stage. Her voice was fresh and lovely, very full – it easily commanded the big War Memorial Opera house. But her prime did not seem to last long, and only a few years later A. K. was less interesting. But, when it was new it was very fine. Maybe she’s older than we think?
Poster 3: “Grave Alice,” you gave me a wonderful flashback to poetry memorization in Junior High; “Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden Hair.” Thanks for the memory.
“I can’t see why there is so much fuss about K. She’s a three-quarters soprano without much of a top and without much of a chest register — and I can never remember what she sounds like!
Apart from that, she’s the new Christa Ludwig.”
Yes, yes and yes. She was a pitiful Melisande two years ago – Simon R surrounded her in an orchestral web of amazing delicacy and she couldn’t float a G.