Tonight’s chat during tonight’s season premiere of Turandot from the Met begins at 7:30 pm.
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Special feature of tonight’s chat: a commenter chosen at random will be awarded the new Cecilia Bartoli Sacrificium
CD. The selection will be made (randomly, as I said) from the total pool of comments, which means, the more often you comment, the higher your chance of being randomly selected. The usual contest-type rules apply about La Cieca’s whims being final and the possibility of substitution of a different prize if the winner lives outside North America.
Comment away, my little public!
No, I’m not Mr. Giordani. Just an admirer. Would you prefer the voice to stop at the lip of the stage, Graciella?
Baritenor, the performance was fantastic and Mr. Giordani on a great great night.
I will wait to judge Marcello on the HD broadcast. But when I saw he was scheduled for Calaf it did raise my eyebrows. Isn’t that a role for a tenore robusto or whatever, like Otello? I love him though. He is one of the few tenors around with an italianate sound.
Michael,
If you are not Mr Giordani, are you perhaps an Opera Queen who hasn’t listened to any other tenors except mr Giordani in a long, long while? Cuz he was craptastic last night, and I don’t generally listen to opera with cotton in my ears (yet)
@471 No, Michael,I would prefer that the voice was well placed, focused, and easilly projected to fill the house…in other words, not so much squeezed, effortfull lurching in order to launch a couple of exciting high notes.
la mamma di Lise Lindstrom sounds eerily like la mamma di Callas.
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2009102998219/News/Local-News/Sonora-High-grad-takes-Met-stage
“… of special interest, the company debut of the fast-rising 30-year-old Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, who led a fresh, intricately textured and unusually probing account of the score, marred only by a few passages of dicey ensemble between the pit and the stage. Mr. Nelsons, the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England, is a musician to watch.”
Well, someone obviously likes to watch fast-rising 30-year olds.
What he said about Poplavskaya paves the way for press quotes and a rave for her Violetta next year. (All the news the Gelb family sees fit to print!)
EVERYBODY likes to watch fast-rising 30 year olds. Even better these days is fast-rising 21 year olds. It’s a meat market, and they like the meat as lean as possible (man, that sounded gay)
Whichever reviewer wrote that about Nelsons is deluded or bought.
Nelsons is not yet on my shit list, but he did himself no favors with Turandot wednesday night.