hit it, boys!
When la Cieca’s dear friend and chief flunky around parterre.com JJ shlepped out this morning to fetch a copy of the New York Post, he seemed oddly keyed up. “With what I got in me, I could have been better than any of you,” JJ muttered.
Flinging the tabloid down on the breakfast bar, he continued, “What I’ve been holding down inside of me… oh, if I ever let it out, there wouldn’t be signs big enough! There wouldn’t be lights bright enough! Here he is, boys! Here he is, world! Here’s James!”
Now, how can get JJ to replace juntwait?
The cream will always rise to the top!
Sincerest congratulations!
BRAVO JJ!! Congratulations and may there be many more reviews.
midgette needs help though. jennifer black was clearly miscast. and having distinct trouble at the top. again with the “silly ” opera crappe. Shame on you Ms. Midgette. IT has no problems surviving centuries. YOU will not. It is a beuty of a romantic tale.
@as for sleepwalking…..20/20 did two weeks of stories of people eaitng in there sleep, driving in their sleep, KILLING in their sleep. What is so silly about an overwrought poetic soul sleepwalking into another room?
Mr/ Florez DOES have a bleat, but was literally the only one in interviews with the proper respect for the Bellini opera and his performance showed a desire to beautify his voice to the score’s demand. NO ONE else did.
Walking in from the Hall is a old idea and shuld not be encouraged and still, no one places the damn blame, er, rather, boos where they belong. On the shudlers of the supposed diva Dessay.
She asked for this and then passes the boos to zimmerman.
applauding onstage doesn’t cut it.
well deserved.
shame THE POST is such a disgusting rag,
Pithy review and to the point but at c. 18 sentences not exactly in Andrew Porter country, despite an earlier comment. However, given the fire-breathing rhetoric that has taken up 100s of posts on this site and others since the dress, I’m frankly surprised that most readers on here are satisfied with a review that doesn’t include phrases like “desacration”; “banned from the MET forever”; “sin against Bellini”; etc.
With a nod to “chimp-gate”, should include a cartoon of Natalie gunning down a young girl in a dirndl, Zimmerman looking on with an inane smile on her face…..aside from that it’s perfect, concise and well balanced, certainly the best of the several I’ve read so far.
Well done!
Well …. alright. It may not be Andrew Porter of yesteryear, but rather a more current version for modern tastes.
What it thankfully isn’t, is a glossy, trendy, silly veneer that are American essays on opera today. The author clearly demonstrates a deep and concise understanding of the work. But most importantly, he writes for his audience at The Post, in a vernacular that works for everyone; neophytes and the jades.