parterre box

12 comments

• SuorAngelica says:

  Brilliant image, cara Cieca!
  They can call it “popera” if they like, but it’s pap. Amazing.
  But thanks, Fresno Bee, for the typo, since it inspired such a witty response from La Cieca,doyenne even of Photoshop.

  on July 16, 2009 at 11:49 PM
• The Logical Tenor says:

  Ah, Simon Cowell, the man behind Spice Girls, Teletubbies and now THIS.

  There is a special room in hell for this man, mark my words.

  on July 17, 2009 at 12:15 AM
• Quanto Painy Fakor says:

  Like true detective, La Cieca has found a way to whip it good!
  Just whip it.

  on July 17, 2009 at 4:22 AM
• Will says:

  You know, I think they’re pretty harmless. They don’t claim to be opera singers, like Bocelli’s machine does–they know they’re a pop boy band with classical crossover. I haven’t seen any major claims made that we should embrace them because they’ll bring the young generation into the opera house, and they’re pleasingly decorative. I think we can safely return to our usual topics, and let them make their money. If opera dies, it isn’t Il Divo that’s going to be nailing down the lid.

  on July 17, 2009 at 6:54 AM
• Ruxton says:

  Well said Will! Paws off Il Divo.
  To criticise them in here is just plain snobbery.

  They are a different genre but they still sing “music” and I’d rather see them than a jazz band or heavy metal or rap any day! (I also wouldn’t mind entertaining them individually either and they wouldn’t even need an orchestra)

  on July 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM
• chacowhacko says:

  “You should be able to,” Buhler says, “transmit the sentiment of the song you’re singing without them understanding the words. That’s when you’re an artist.”

  What horseshit. What he is describing is a theremin concert.

  on July 17, 2009 at 10:06 AM
• Cassandra says:

  Why is the gay one always stuck in the back?

  on July 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM
• Will says:

  Because he wants to be conveniently placed?

  on July 17, 2009 at 1:10 PM
• Grimgerde2 says:

  Q: Are we not opera singers? A: We are Il Divo!

  on July 17, 2009 at 1:31 PM
• Krunoslav says:

  I have heard David Miller sing Faust and Hoffmann in opera houses. Overparted but not awful.

  on July 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM