Comments on: “All’alba, Vicar! Oh!”

By: CarlottaBorromeo

CarlottaBorromeo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:56:23 +0000

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.

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:51:02 +0000

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

By: Orlando Furioso

Orlando Furioso — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:03:31 +0000

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.

By: manou

manou — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:35:29 +0000

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

che palle…..

By: Often admonished

Often admonished — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:26:57 +0000

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

By: The Vicar of John Wakefield

The Vicar of John Wakefield — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:31:31 +0000

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?

By: woodshed

woodshed — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:24:28 +0000

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.

By: anotherjj

anotherjj — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:26:51 +0000

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxoHrdkta0

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:26:17 +0000

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!

By: Krunoslav

Krunoslav — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:54:39 +0000

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.

By: Lindoro Almaviva

Lindoro Almaviva — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:33:07 +0000

James is also a great guy. Good for him that he is making a name for himself.

By: Arianna a Nasso

Arianna a Nasso — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:02:35 +0000

Never mind that Mr. Creswell has a British agent and has been a member of the Komische Oper for several years now.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:34:47 +0000

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.

By: dallasuapace

dallasuapace — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:32:00 +0000

If they were so independent of the U.S they would not feel the need to protest so much.

By: wenarto

wenarto — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:05 +0000

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

By: armerjacquino

armerjacquino — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:50:56 +0000

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.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:46:15 +0000

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.

By: brooklynpunk

brooklynpunk — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:45:28 +0000

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

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schedule

SPECIAL PROGRAM: THE FREEWAY SERIES: MUSIC FROM THE PACIFIC COAST
An Evening with Soprano Danielle De Niese in Santa Monica. Songs by Handel, Grieg, Wolf, Poulenc, Barber and Bizet, with pianist Ken Noda. (2 hrs.)

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

By: Orlando Furioso

Orlando Furioso — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:10:48 +0000

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.

By: CruzSF

CruzSF — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:59:06 +0000

jeez, what is going on over there? Nationwide inferiority complex?

By: Quanto Painy Fakor

Quanto Painy Fakor — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:31:44 +0000

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