de Niese speaks! (sort of)
“What people don’t know, what people who spend time sort of, like, gossiping about a role might not know, is that, I mean, once you get onto the audition stage, you are just like everybody else; it’s what you do vocally and what you do as an artist that gets you the job or not.… Really, they want to see talent. Talent trumps everything.”
Yes, La Cieca realizes that’s a little hard to follow, but shouldn’t we be a little tolerant? Let’s recall that Danielle de Niese is Australian, so it’s not like English is her first language. [NY Observer]
I’ve got that Semele, and I rather like it. Even if the voice is ordinary, her interpretation and performance are not.
It’s just a terrible shame about the rest of the cast, who are mostly awful.
Scary, Pelleas? For starters. Maria Ewing did baroque Monteverdi….at Glynebourne…(hitched a Halloween ride on a publicity broomstick)as Lady Hall …married Hall the famed director….did a Nozze di Figaro…..Half Dutch parentage……etc.
Perhaps someone might become someone called Lady Christie, too!
110# Oh its Ruxton again! She had stated here, in the past,she doesn’t want to be responded to, by me. This I accepted and respected …till now. She now wishes to be hypocritically privileged and snidely respond about my comments to others. Keep practicing pressing your smile icons ‘Dearest Ruxton’. That way we will be early forewarned of her obnoxious vacuous presence. Life’s a two way street, Honey!
Correction :Comment 109#
That portrait of her… I think I saw it making a cameo last year in “Coraline.”