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21 comments

• 1
  Quanto Painy Fakor says:

  October 9, 2009 at 6:31 PM

  And why is the USA plagued by so many incompetent fucking Brits even permitted to infect opera administration and musical direction in America?i
• 2
  CruzSF says:

  October 9, 2009 at 6:59 PM

  jeez, what is going on over there? Nationwide inferiority complex?
• 3
  Orlando Furioso says:

  October 9, 2009 at 7:10 PM

  Oh please let our beloved Vicar (as noted in the headline) have the perfect response!

  Joseph Rouleau and Frederick Dalberg are rather out of date. And Forbes Robinson was entirely too good.
• 4
  brooklynpunk says:

  October 9, 2009 at 7:45 PM

  Didn’t see where else to place this..but this might be interesting….on , tonight…

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  ..De Neisse was at “Poision Rouge”, in NYC, earlier this week, and by all accounts, put on a real enjoyable show
• 5
  richard says:

  October 9, 2009 at 7:46 PM

  CruzSF,

  It’s an old, old mantra with certain British
  critics. There was a similar comment in an ENO
  Rigoletto review about a week or so ago “Why a North American singer”….

  There is a strong “buy British” theme in some of the UK critics.
• 6
  armerjacquino says:

  October 9, 2009 at 7:50 PM

  What an incredibly daft thing to say. Yet one more reason why I’m glad I don’t read the Telegraph, a newspaper that wishes it was 1908.
• 7
  wenarto says:

  October 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM

  they are immitating balinese kecak costume, there is no chinese ever wearing checkers
  http://www.icadl2008.org/images/destination/kecak%20dance.jpg
• 8
  dallasuapace says:

  October 9, 2009 at 8:32 PM

  If they were so independent of the U.S they would not feel the need to protest so much.
• 9
  squirrel says:

  October 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM

  don’t forget the canadians do this as well.

  it’s an international market; those little bit parts seem small, but are worth a lot when you consider the vastness of the talent pool.
• 10
  Arianna a Nasso says:

  October 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM

  Never mind that Mr. Creswell has a British agent and has been a member of the Komische Oper for several years now.
• 11
  Lindoro Almaviva says:

  October 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM

  James is also a great guy. Good for him that he is making a name for himself.
• 12
  Krunoslav says:

  October 9, 2009 at 10:54 PM

  This just goes to show that what Our Vicar is visiting upon us– perhaps too often to be consistently amusing? — has not vanished, as some here have claimed, from the British press.
• 13
  Harry says:

  October 10, 2009 at 1:26 AM

  Oh, because it is the British are the best: grizzling at the rest of the World. How many times have the rest of us have had to put up being inflected with 5th rate British artiste’? The number is mind boggling. Just go over the roll call, trotted out by the Vicar. You’re got it!

  In that extremely damp, dull climate and brought up on a diet of stodgy food, how could healthy lungs of a potential singer develop any way? As they say , it is all about ‘real build quality’ Folks. AND the British don’t have It, and never did!
• 14
  anotherjj says:

  October 10, 2009 at 4:26 AM

  For anyone who is interested, here is the trailer for ENO’s new production of Turandot.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxoHrdkta0
• 15
  woodshed says:

  October 10, 2009 at 5:24 AM

  But what else do you expect from The Daily Torygraph? This is Britain’s most reactionary broadsheet. They still haven’t gotten over the fact that Britain lost it’s empire.
• 16
  The Vicar of John Wakefield says:

  October 10, 2009 at 5:31 AM

  From a house which nurtured the late Richard van Allan — the finest Wurm on disc — this is a sore betrayal. Where are Howell and Sir John (whose Lear and Archie Rice the West End eagerly awaits)? Where are the younger men like Matthew Best and Commonwealth Artist Paul Whelan?
• 17
  Often admonished says:

  October 10, 2009 at 6:26 AM

  Or the renowned Gareme Broadent or Matthew Rose ??? If they wanted Timur typecasting (decrepit) Robert Lloyd is still around.
• 18
  manou says:

  October 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM

  Vicar!oh qua, Vicar!oh la, Vicar!oh su, Vicar!oh giu….

  che palle…..
• 19
  Orlando Furioso says:

  October 10, 2009 at 8:03 AM

  I knew our dear Vicar wouldn’t let us down. Don’t ever stop, sir.

  I tried hard to find the right way to mention Richard van Allan, but I just don’t have the knack, and shouldn’t try.
• 20
  Harry says:

  October 10, 2009 at 10:51 AM

  Com’ on Vicar I can remember Richard Van Allan doing a f…ked up voiceed Massenet Don Quixote
• 21
  CarlottaBorromeo says:

  October 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM

  Lest tastelessness should reign supreme (nothing new here then) please note: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/10/richard-van-allan-obituary

  Cresswell sings wonderfully as Timur – nationalism is no basis on which to cast operas, whichever side of the Atlantic one might be on.