placido on the down low
“In Adriana Lecouvreur, Domingo manages to portray plausibly a character young enough to be his grandson. He is the dashing Count Maurizio, who is entangled in a romantic triangle with the celebrated actress Adriana and a scheming princess. The count’s excuse for two-timing Adriana is perhaps the most original in the history of cheating. He’s planning an invasion of Lithuania, you see, and he’s financing the coup with a play-for-pay arrangement with the princess.”
Our Own JJ reviews the Met’s revival of Adriana Lecouvreur in Gay City News.
You know what angie, ? She shouldn’t be covering the opera. Millo should be singing it.
“libel”??!! That’s hilarious. When shall you three meet again? You keep coming back with different names but the same tired, hysteric screed. As I’ve said before, Millo deserves better advocates.
angela, truthbetold et. al.: Cool it. This obsession with who’s covering Guleghina, an artist who rarely cancels, is nonproductive.
I will cease Doyenne. But for all concerned:
In law, defamation (also called calumny, libel, slander, and vilification) is the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image.
Slander refers to a malicious, false and defamatory spoken statement or report, while libel refers to any other form of communication such as written words or images. Most jurisdictions allow legal actions, civil and/or criminal, to deter various kinds of defamation and retaliate against groundless criticism.
Related to defamation is public disclosure of private facts, which arises where one person reveals information that is not of public concern, and the release of which would offend a reasonable person.
Here we go again!
[La Cieca's note. Indeed, here we go again! You've been asked to cool it on this particular subject, so please do cool it.]
So I have a terribly important question, and this seemed as good a place as any. Since about the time of the broadcast, Domingo’s official Facebook fan page seems to be down. Now don’t you think that’s an interesting matter for a conspiracy theorist to take up? Did someone say something mean? or what?
(Good to see, incidentally–on my decennial foray into the fandom–that its goals remain untouched: more crazy stats than baseball, blithe and wholly erudite irrationality, and above all the Domingo hate. I’ll tell you what, man. When I was 12 and first saw him in the Zeff. movie I thought he was way too old to be my Alfredo, but he was still a god. Most of what I can gather from you all is that his main crime of late is being 68 and ubiquitous. God forbid that Saturday’s broadcast should have ravished me on account of being what it was, nothing more.)
I hesitate to correct JJ, but is it possible that Maurizio is planning to attack not Lithuania, but Latvia? According to the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Courland is Latvia, not Lithuania.
T., you and JJ are both sort of right. Courland as it existed in the 18th century was a vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which is where JJ was coming from. Probably more to the point is that historical Courland is part of what later came to be known as Latvia, so geographically speaking you’re far closer to the mark.
Dear La Cieca,
Thank you. I wrestled for days whether to mention this minor point, as I so enjoy JJ’s columns.
I totally forgot about it until tonight, but I saw Domingo sing Andrea Chenier at LOC in the 80s. The performance was supposed ton be Katia Riciarelli and Jose Carrero but they both bailed. And apparently the whole production was in trouble, because, as I recall, the sets hadn’t been finished went the production went on. And the subs were Domingo and Eva Marton.