parterre box

47 comments

• MontyNostry says:

  parpignol — can the fabulous Shirl do sweet and vulnerable, though?

  on October 16, 2009 at 12:59 PM
• squirrel says:

  right you are! so nice to be retired…

  on October 16, 2009 at 1:06 PM
• parpignol says:

  MontyNostry: she’s not sounding very vulnerable right now in the duet with Pollione; if I were he I would head back to Rome on the next chariot; but she’s going to soften in the duets with Norma. . . I am really loving this performance. . .

  on October 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM
• Jay says:

  One of the 1976 Caballe/Verrett Normas capped a weekend that began with Puritani on Friday night and continued with Aida on Saturday matinee. Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, Placido Domingo, Cornell McNeil, and Caballe and Verret, all in about 27 hours. It rarely got any better at the Met than this.

  on October 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM
• MontyNostry says:

  Jay, who needs all those big people with big voices when we can have little people with little voices these days?

  on October 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM
• MontyNostry says:

  By the way, isn’t this a moment for our dear friend the Vicar to expound on the line-ups at the dear old Coli c 1972?

  on October 16, 2009 at 2:20 PM
• CruzSF says:

  It’s certainly easier to listen to all those big people with big voices on the radio.

  Thanks for the heads-up at Norma on Sirius. I’ve not heard this opera yet (because I like to have the libretto on first listen and I don’t own a recording of this yet). Caballe seems to be enunciating well enough for me to make out the words, so while I don’t know exactly what they’re saying, I can at least tell who they’re addressing.

  The duet at the end of Act II was just beautiful.

  on October 16, 2009 at 2:27 PM