Done that!
Sting is hoping to attract new fans to opera with his latest release, a film in which he and wife Trudie Styler tell the story of composer Robert Schumann. [BBC News]
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Oh Kate, how wonderful. Thanks to La Cieca for finding this gem of a video.
That picture of Sting above….is that as Florestan or Eusebius? I always get them confused.
One can only hope that he and Trudie eventually get around to telling the Gustav and Alma story.
I prefer to see more half naked pictures of Sting that that film…. Please sting dont do that…
Which of Robert Schumann’s many operas will Sting and Trudie be promoting?
Sez Trudie: “Luciano really made opera populist [sic] culture, and I’d like to think in our small way that this is something he’d very much approve of ”
Oy veh.
“Styler said she and her husband had not been interested in opera until the late Luciano Pavarotti invited them to a performance of Tosca.”
If the Tosca they saw was the current Met version this might have never happened.
I suspect that Bono will not rest for this.
Expect U2 to try one or The Who to re-unite for Tommy II (This time we’re serious)
why SChoemannnnn???????? oh….
Perhaps wenarto : Schumann did write an full length opera! I am sure the names of the late Pavarotti and other like him – departed, will be used in vain to justify the mega over -reach ambitions of pop stars wanting to be ‘sincerely serious’. Nothing like rock stars ‘name dropping’ to get 15 seconds of extra media attention. Looks like it is ‘so bull shit cool’ for pop culture people to mess around with classical composers and their works. Is Rufus Wankright also going to co -star in this proposed travesty?
At the same time, a whole heap of these self possessed creatures pontificate, wishing to browbeat others about consumer extravagance and global warming, they themselves are some of the biggest carbon foot printers going. Cultural hypocrisy never sleeps amongst ‘this breed of musical mutants’ producing what amounts to Sound Graffiti.
Our own Vicar of Wakefield would, one imagines: rightly say ” They cannot do it like our dear Ken Russell could!”
Quoth harry: “They cannot do it like our dear Ken Russell could!”
Well at the very least, I hope Sing doesn’t try to do it in that cast aluminum Art Deco jock strap.
Actually, I like Sting very much and even enjoyed his John Dowland album.