get up everybody and sing
Presenting The Family Pondman.
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More about The Family Pondman, including the answer to the inevitable question, “Wha…?” may be found on their eponymous website.
“So long –
Farewell –
Auf wiederseh’n!
Good-night!”
I wonder if they could sing that at least?
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Next to this (Manson??) famiglia…La Puma is La Scala……I am glad I never had the internet in my early years…because I would have been tempted to video my horrendous singing….which thankfully is better..well..because I changed from Gina Cigna imitations to Rene Pape….
If they remade Anne FRank (pardon the tasteless ness) with this Dutch family…I think I might turn them in……
Ladies and gentlemen, Florence Foster Jenkins is alive and well and teaching voice in Denmark.
oh Mon Dieu, what do we do without La Cieca, who always makes my day when I open parterre….and believe it or not, I found the best Elisabetta, she is really SIXTEEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SFX_gQv6w
OMG James McCracken is reborn! And boy has his Italian improved.
The bottom .. er sorry the bass-baritone has great potential… but with that training and rep forged about it!
A book on staged opera performances in the Netherlands 1886-1995 has no entry at all on ‘blessed’ opera singer papa Pondman…
The Pondman family isn’t really representative of Dutch opera singing in general, as post 28 seems to suggest. Many of the Dutch opera singers have never made it to the Met or to recording studios, but there is more to Dutch opera singing than the sublime Brouwenstijn or the one-of-a-kind Deutekom. Charles Handelman, who, I think, is related to this site’s poster Zinka the Kunc, has made a very interesting podcast on Dutch singers. You should check it out. There are quite a lot of good Dutch singers around now, but it is true many of them start singing the praises of the very serious Bach, Mahler and Handel and are lost to opera.
Interesting performers who can be found on cd’s or dvd’s are: Eva Maria Westbroek, Arnold Bezuyen, Frank van Aken, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Henk Neven, Marcel Reijans, Harry Peeters, Johanette Zomer and Tania Kross.
Elisabetta is still too heavy for her, but as Giselda and also playing at the same the violin, she is unique allready, and that with sixteen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an8-g42pRio