parterre box

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• 81
  richard says:

  February 7, 2009 at 9:43 AM

  Armerj- Bumbry is Eboli on the Met DVD with Freni and Domingo.
  You may be thinking of a Met telecast/DVD from a few years earlier, back in the late 70s, with Scotto
  and Moldovaneau(sp?). Troyanos does Eboli on that one.
• 82
  steveac10 says:

  February 7, 2009 at 1:48 PM

  Michael Myers SHOULD have canceled, or is that what he normally sounds like? I’ve heard better singing from aging church choir tenors at sunrise services. I know nobody listens to Lucia for the Normanno, but if he’s the best comprimario tenor they can muster up for an international telecast the casting director should be fired.
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  tamerlano says:

  February 7, 2009 at 1:57 PM

  I hate Damrau in belcanto. She suffers the same problem that Dessay does in that the voice is largely colorless. She has great high notes and technical facility. All the big moments “come off” nicely but belcanto really isn’t in the big moments. She also has a tendency to fill the vocal line with all sorts of “tricky” business…surges and swells, sudden dimuendi that break up the line. It adds something interesting to “Der Holle Rache” but it sounds out of place in belcanto.
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  CarlottaBorromeo says:

  February 7, 2009 at 9:39 PM

  When Mattila sang Elisabeth de Valois at Covent Garden (the Bondy production as at the Chatelet) she was pushed by the Act III finale – perhaps the voice lacked natral “cut” for that passage. Cotrubas, with certainly a smaller instrument than KM, was much more successful in a revival of the old production in the mid-80s. But Cotrubas was a very clever singer…