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A quick YouTube search for “opera” this morning yields this startling snippet.

95 comments

  • jatm2063 says:

    Who else noticed that many of the other videos on this list of 15 provided to us by our doyenne are of gigantic muscleboys?

  • wenarto says:

    OK, whatever it is, just boo my Sonnambula

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkcrkATqvWA&FMT=18

  • operaaficionado says:

    You New Yorkers just don’t get ‘real’ theatre. Too many boring Broadway productions have watered down your sense of theatrical adventure not to mention intelligence. Too many of NYC’s great dramatic and musical productions have started in Chicago. Chicagoans know the Windy City is the real ‘theatre’ town, home to the Goodman, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and numerous other great theatre companies. Mary Z is brilliant! Send her back to us with Dan, Mara and TJ! Love them all!

  • Alto says:

    Are you under the impression, R 93, that those Broadway sillinesses are put on for New Yorkers? No, they are mostly for the tourists — including the visiting Chicagoans.

  • ilpenedelmiocor says:

    Re: #72

    “At the end of the dress rehersal of C et M at CG, the audience applauded Netrebko and Garanca for 15 minutes, rather unusual for the reserved and cool British! Nebs is not that bad after all!”

    Music criticism via applause meter.

    Did she actually manage to get through an entire production without ever going off pitch? I would applaud that vociferously as well.