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47 comments

  • 41
    CruzSF says:

    Baritenor, I just looked again at the photo from the Youtube clip. I’m pretty sure that the wig was changed. At the very least, it received a touch up and a cut. :-)

  • 42
    rysanekfreak says:

    The Chicago Ernani was dreadful. Not only were all four voices in less than Golden Age condition, but the music was heavily cut: the cabalettas got chopped in half.

    And the two announcers were in the category of Margaret and Will: lots of goosey cheerleading for every aspect of the performance. We need those 2 old guys from Sesame Street to add a touch of realism to “commentating.”

  • 43
    luvtennis says:

    Someone should post one of Price’s clip of Ernani from the early 80’s. I would but I just don’t know how.

  • 44
    Buster says:

    Broken toes:

    She broke a … toe Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky sang the role of Elvira at the opening of Verdi’s “Ernani” at the Lyric Opera of Chicago Tuesday night, with her right leg in a cast and a broken toe on her left foot.

    The 40-year-old Berwyn native has suffered a litany of mishaps in the last month. On Oct. 3, she sprained her right ankle while fighting a would-be purse snatcher in San Francisco. On Oct. 4, she heard “a crack” in the same leg while running off stage during a matinee performance at the San Francisco Opera. A doctor determined she tore a ligament and must wear a cast until Dec. 4.

    And two days later, tenor Marco Berti fell to his knees during a scene and directly onto her left foot, breaking her big toe. Making matters worse, the “Ernani” stage is angled at a 5 percent grade.

    “The hardest thing for me singing on this stage has been trying to get both my balance for walking and for singing,” she wrote in an e-mail. “There has to be support in the body when a singer sings, and I have been fighting that since I hurt both of my feet.”

    Her only solace, other than an accommodating cast and crew, has been the heavy Spanish-Renaissance costumes. They provide padding, she explained, when she has to fall to the floor or drop to her knees.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-wed-confidential-1028-oct28,0,575061.column

  • 45
    The Vicar of John Wakefield says:

    Tosh! Kim Begley is the finest Herod since Emile Belcourt. It would have all gone better had they thought to import Helen Field for the name-part.

  • 46
    Fritz says:

    Just in case anyone thinks the good Vicar is exaggerating, here’s a recent quote from a British music review site. The reviewer is recalling the first time he saw an opera (FAUST):
    “The cast was magnificent by any standards, featuring Harvey Allan as Mephisto, Roland Jones in the eponymous role and the redoubtable Amy Shuard as Marguerite.”

  • 47
    Bianca Castafiore says:

    la cieca, carissima, where’s the link to the old temporary blog? there’s some posts i must catch up with … grazie.