Out there, in the dark
All of you who said, “Oh, Kiri te Kanawa could never do Norma” are feeling pretty silly right now, aren’t you? Of course, La Cieca doesn’t mean the Bellini druidess, a role the Kiwi songbird never could have mastered even at the peak of her career, whenever that might have been.
No, this Norma is the creepy aging diva who refuses to go away: “I promise you I’ll never desert you again, because after Der Rosenkavalier we’ll make another opera, and another and another. You see, this is my life. It always will be. There’s nothing else – just me and the prompters and those wonderful people out there in the dark…” [NYT]
ArmerJacquino – I though you heard (and loved?) her Nanetta as a teenager? Please don’t tell me I am the only Eva Lind fan in the village…
Well, Eva has 57 fans on Facebook and she has a busy schedule of Xmas and New Year’s concerts coming up. And she is still only 44. Maybe Norma awaits soon!
Thanks Monty – she is first touring Dubai with René Kollo:
http://www.travel-dubai.de/vip.html
In the Rosenkavalier she was very much helped by the excellent Amsterdam Concertgebouw accoustics, and by the great Edo de Waart.
Hawlata was the Ochs.
Good lord, buster, you’re right. In the Glyndebourne Falstaff at the Proms. Well remembered- she was indeed lovely in that.