festive future
La Cieca hears that Angela Meade, triumphant in this summer’s Semiramide at Caramoor, has been invited back there in 2010 for her first Norma. Other future dates include Les Vêpres siciliennes in Vienna and a return engagement at the Met in Ernani. On the bill at Caramoor for 2011: that grandest of all grand operas, Guilliame Tell.
Update: Caramoor maestro Will “The Trill” Crutchfield just chimed in:
Semiramide was only a first hint of what this gal can do. Everybody should come next year and hold me accountable if I’m wrong. She hasn’t yet tapped her full capacities, but she will.
Do not get this …. she is so amateur.
Meade is far more than amateur; in fact she is a young dramatic coloratura who, if she will lose
quite a bit of weight and keep it off, can have a major career. A slederized Meade might just be an excellent Violetta — she has exactly the right voice.
Miss Meade owns an extraordinarily lush and well trained instrument. There is nothing forced, and her tonal beauty represent a lesson to other singers.
You DON’T make it to La Cieca’s site unless your a worthy talent. End of story.
The tone is ordinary, and there is no real glamour. sorry, not my idea of great on any level.
Glamour?
I understood opera to be about music. The depth of such a comment sez all one needs to know…..
“sez” indeed. says it all for you. five years old.
Glamour is a term above your head or experience perhaps. it is meant to imply beauty, personality, charisma. In sound. Not looks, duh….
I think OhNO was talking about vocal glamour, that special something that singers with really luxurious voices have (I’m thinking: Price, Tebaldi, Caballe, Norman in their primes, and Netrebko’s got it regardless of what one might think of the way she actually USES her voice). I suppose there are other ways of describing it, but I think there’s enough precedent for the use of the term this way.
I could be wrong though, since I disagree with his opinion here–I found Meade quite vocally glamourous in Semiramide, and look forward to Norma.
I’ll pass on yet another norma like Christine Goerke. All the notes, and saying nothing. this is the last word on this, I don’t find this interesting enough to waste time on.
I underestimate the jaded mavens who frequent La Cieca’s site at times. I thank Pelleas whole heartedly for the illumination.
CrewMantle: best to just laugh, I’ve found.