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Denyce Graves — whatever happened to her? Well, for one thing, she has apparently married well. Yesterday the mezzo-soprano wed Robert Montgomery — not the 1940s film star, but rather the chief of transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins. (He’s the surgeon whose team pioneered the transplant technique of removing a donor’s kidney through her vagina.) [Washington Post]
Well, congrats to Denyce. But the Washington Post calls her “the top diva of her generation”????? Wow, that’s creative
Well, it all depends on how you define “top,” “diva,” and generation.”
And “of.”
What happened to that scruffy looking hillbilly type she was with a while back?
Well I wish her every happiness.
On the career front I know she will be singing with Opera NJ at the NJPAC, with, I think but not sure, the NJ Symphony.
The rumor is that this is partly why Ruth Ann Swenson cancelled her Fledermauses last year, because heres were out in the boonies with a reduced orchestra and then she found they were doing this larger scale production.
i have NO way to verify this rumor, it is just hearsay and not substantiated.
oy. somewhat OT, but does the Post not have editors?
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“I’m usually the first one to pull out my laptop” on long trips, Graves told us.
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“We’ve begun an excavation of our souls that has unfolded new selves for us.”
bleah
@pavel
I just threw up in my mouth. That sounds like something Tippett would set to music.
Well, perhaps Graves’ doctor husband can perform another, ground breaking operation and fix her voice through her “you know what”! YECH!
The Washington Post style section always reports on whatever Graves is up to, she’s a local and went to the performing arts high school here. While the music critics sometimes told it like it was about her voice, the rest of the paper seems to have ignored her vocal decline — or when they hint at it, it’s in terms of her (evidently former) wreck of a life.
So I guess her guitar playing hubby is in the same place where her Amneris is…