Une femme de mon nom
Felicity Palmer has withdrawn, alas, from the Met’s spring revival of La Fille du Régiment. In her place, alternating in the role of the Marquise de Berkenfield we will hear Ann Murray (pictured, with friend) and Philip Langridge. (Oh, all right, La Cieca is being silly. Not Philip Langridge, actually, but rather Meredith Arwady. But La Cieca still thinks her casting is funnier.)
This artist, apparently, was unavailable…
Any reason for such an in-advance cancelation?
Meredith Ardwady is doing the Marquise in San Francisco right now (same production). She’s very funny, sings wonderfully and plays the piano terribly.
Arwady absolutely brought down the house at SFO…she has great comedic chops for such a young performer!
Where is Katherine Pring, where Gillian Knight?
is this a bad sign for dame felicity?
OK, I’ve searched a bit and I give up… who’s the partner in the photo?
If Ann Murray can pull this off, there’s a whole new category of roles open to her in late career.
Meredith Arwady sounds like a Podles-in-training in this role. Seriously.
We must nominate the Vicar as the Agent search engine for all those vaporous British and Commonwealth things. Index -listed in one’s memory, as ‘unlamented & lost, long ago in opera’s jungle’. Poor things they all are / were – being such vulnerable prey – always threatened by quick extinction – by those more accomplished. And alas, so it came to pass. Part of ‘Music’s Darwinian Evolution’ at work …with a vengeance, one would say.
Now Vicar, tell this Parterre congregation what the Opera Lesson is for next week’s pulpit. I think his audience has just walked! Folks, can you believe it! Out, before the collection plate was meant to be passed around, to pay his paid group of choristers – you know the ones he touts for – quotes their individual names here, one by one – trying to get them a ‘gig’.
Oh Poodles…
That’s a Bflat Ewa emits at the end there! Amazing. I just saw her in Boston Opera Tancredi and she covered herself with glory.
Here’s a word I never though I’d associate with Podles…. adorable!