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“Never before have I seen a Royal Opera production greeted with a standing ovation and then a fortissimo volley of boos.” [Times Online]
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Maybe Gwynne Howell was unavailable.
Not sure if anyone has seen this review on opera-britannia.com :
http://tinyurl.com/yauzyaq
Where’s Vicar John when we need him?
MontyN: Please, no. Please. Shhhhh.
Oh, and has anyone seen the review in Opera Britannia ( http://tinyurl.com/yauzyaq ). I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet!
Cocky Kurwenal #20: who exactly could they have got? At a very quick glance Fischesser, Halvarson, Holl, Konig, Milling, Olsen, Pape, Relyea, Rose, Rydl (thank God!), Sigmundsson, White, Youn and Zeppenfeld were all unavailable…
“And whatever you think about JonTom vocally, he’s still bloody good on stage…” Since when did a lack of voice become an irrelevant consideration, just because some old obese half-wit could act? No wonder the ROH field us such interminable crap, when the expectations of some members of the audience are excruciatingly low. They had more than enough time to find us a suitable replacement, but instead chose to throw-up this old has-been. It was bad though sitting through his Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo, without having to suffer the indignity yet again.
With all due respect to Tomlinson (whom I’ve admired in the past), is King Marke–or any role in Tristan und Isolde–a role where you can get away with being bloody good on stage? Tristan und Isolde always struck me as being the ultimate stand-up-and-sing opera.