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Happy birthday Sigmund Romberg!

by | 1:42 pm | Jul 29, 2009

A birthday salute from Finnish firecracker Karita Mattila. 

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  • Harry says:

    What about Mattlia’s over mature frumpy Manon Lescaut in the DVD production. I cannot believe that Puccini had such a vision of ‘his Manon’. Jeepers if Des Grieux wanted to chase that style of ‘bit of skirt’: as a character then, he was ready for certification, even back in the 1st Act.

    on July 30, 2009 at 2:24 PM
  • The Vicar of John Wakefield says:

    Bronhill, a Commonwealth Artist, was indeed tip-top in this vein, as was the underappreciated Adele Leigh, a damn sight more classy than that Lappish cocktail waitress.

    on July 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM
  • Missjohnsonfromlondon says:

    Dear Cieca @29 (your age, too?)–Brava, brava, brava
    in thanks for the Rx you have written Dr. Miller.
    Where Miller is concerned, the proverb, “Physician, heal thyself,” also comes to mind.

    on July 30, 2009 at 7:06 PM
  • mrmyster says:

    #33 Miss Johnston, haven’t you heard?
    Dr. Miller has been diagnosed a hopeless case.

    on July 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM
  • Ruxton says:

    Adele Leigh sang leads on a lot of recordings of shows in the 60′s – have to agree with Vicar, she was damn good. I think the label was World Record Club- long swallowed up by some conglomerate, the orchestration was unsophisticated (almost dance band like) but “very live and certainly very appealing” and the shows “South Pacific” “Pal Joey” and I think the first “Sound of Music” played an integral part of my training as a very young opera queen.

    on July 30, 2009 at 9:35 PM
  • SilvestriWoman says:

    Does Mattila still design all her concert gowns? She did in previous years. What is it with these divas? (Yes, Renee and Debbie, I’m talking to you.) Do they have no gay friends??? Or do they simply refuse to take them on shopping trips???

    on July 30, 2009 at 10:19 PM
  • Buster says:

    The Adele Leigh Fledermauss is finally out on CD now. Nice cover indeed:

    http://abella.vertigo.fm/cover/P0886974698425_1.jpg

    on July 31, 2009 at 2:12 AM
  • MontyNostry says:

    Adele Leigh was in a 1987 London production of Follies, singing Heidi Schiller. The Sondheim connection must give her extra points on here, surely.

    on July 31, 2009 at 3:48 AM
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