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He has always been a fellow who arranges things

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Is there no end to the talents of George Steel? Boy soprano, Bernstein protégé, conductor, impresario, endive fancier — and now matchmaker!

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23 comments

  • 1
    Quanto Painy Fakor says:

  • 2
    Krunoslav says:

    Isn’t Weisgall’s tuner where “I am sixteen, going on seventeen” appears?

  • 3
    Hans Lick says:

    Aw c’mon, die Blinde! They’ve had singles nights at the Met and even GAY singles nights! Anything to rope in the crowds is fair game. I’m almost embarrassed to be going to Esther on a Friday night, when of course it will be very nearly Judenfrei, myself excepted.

    (And the gays won’t be there that night because Luca Pisaroni is singing a fascinating recital program at Weill Hall that night that I wished I’d known about before I arranged my press seats.)

  • 4
    Sanford says:

    I think we need to have a Parterre Box night at the opera.

  • 5
    Quanto Painy Fakor says:

    Since the music of ESTHER is not worth much, talking will be permitted during the performance to encourage possible matches among attendees.

  • 6
    Quanto Painy Fakor says:

    For those of you who would prefer to stay home, here’s a splendid quiz. The answers have already been posted on Youtube.
    httpv://www.youtube.com/user/coloraturafan#p/a/u/2/Le2Aie5Ojs4

  • 7
    Quanto Painy Fakor says:

    oops:

  • 8
    aloki miyeyi says:

    Seating is in the fourth ring, so if you meet a nice Jewish doctor he will either be a medical student or not such a good catch.

    I remember reading that at the Met singles nights the box office sold single tickets, or would that be singles tickets, asking if you were buying for a man or woman, and were seating accordingly: male and female they created them. Does anyone know if at the gay events they were asking, top or bottom?

  • 9
    m. croche says:

    Boy are those kids in for a surprise.

    For them, Hugo Weisgall will turn out to be the Bernie Madoff of composers.

  • 10
    Alto says:

    “Since the music of ESTHER is not worth much …”

    What are your credentials for this callous dismissal?

  • 11
    tannengrin says:

    I love the concept. The ‘themed’ nights should somehow relate to the work in questions. Don Giovanni could be targeted to a “Guidos and Real Housewives” crowd.

  • 12
    pavel says:

    Maybe for Madame Butterfly they’ll have a singles night for rice queens.

  • 13
    Will says:

    Opera houses across the country–and internationally, I believe–have been doing these themed matchmaking nights for years. Why the snarky comments about NYCO now? I’m for anything that will help the company to survive.

    RE: Esther. The original reviews were extremely good. The music may not be in a style you like but it is apparently very good of its type. A city that has had excellent productions of Wozzeck, Lulu, Moses und Aron, et al for decades (capped two summers ago by the gigantic hit Die Soldaten that sold out and was greeted with universal praise) shouldn’t be dismissing Esther quite so glibly.

    RE: The gays and Esther. I know one gay gay who’ll be sitting in the first row of the Third Ring. I’m looking forward to it very, very much. Anyone want to meet during the intermission(s)? Hans?

  • 14
    operablogger says:

    …or a Vicars and Tarts night for “La Favorite” — if they ever decide to perform that opera, of course.

  • 15
    Dan Johnson says:

    It could be worse. It could be La Juive. Or Salome. Or Klinghoffer. Or Meistersinger. Or perhaps Mark Morris could stage the Johannes-Passion, that would also be more offensive than the present JEW-DATING NIGHT AT THE JEW OPERA strategy.

    Actually, now that I think of it, I would disproportionately inclined to go to bed with any Jewish boy I met at a performance of The Death of Klinghoffer (as long as he is not there to wave a sign), so scratch that one off the list.

  • 16
    Harry says:

    Perhaps this it is what is called ‘penetrating the Ring’ -in the 4th degree? Are condoms going to be issued with every ticket sold? This NYCO idea is rather ‘unfortunate’ and could lead to some very bad jokes. Any cultural event should seek at all times to be inclusive to all; not set up tones of exclusivity in any form.It is decisive.
    Just as irksome in theater, is special gala nights for only ’special people’ that can afford the special entrance prices.

  • 17
    honorary virgin says:

    as a jew and an opera lover, i find nothing remarkable or offensive in nyco marketing to jewish singles an opera on a familiar heroine from jewish history and composed by a jew who deploys in it (to quote yesterday’s times) “his deep love and knowledge of the jewish liturgical traditions that were so firmly rooted in the fabric of his style.” it seems like simple common sense.

  • 18
    Graciella Scusi says:

    @10 Alto “What are your credentials for this callous dismissal?”

    I love your language, Alto, when you’re challenging someone’s facile dismissal of an artist’s integrity or worth (seriously). It invokes a picture of you taking off a glove and slapping it across their face, with an unspoken “you cad!” at the end of the sentence. Chivalry is not dead on Parterre Box.

  • 19
    wenarto says:

    Boo -- B did not hire me to sing Mahler 4 and use this kid? now I am singing Mahler 4 anything I want.

  • 20
    Alto says:

    “It invokes a picture of you taking off a glove and slapping it across their face …”

    Obviously my lumberjack act isn’t fooling YOU.

  • 21
    lacroix321 says:

    OY VEY.

  • 22
    whiskey per tutti says:

    I hate it when any arts organization does this kind of crap marketing. I suspect it’s a bust anyway.

  • 23
    Harry says:

    La Cieca was probably alluding to Dolly Levi ‘always arranging things’ but let’s also not forget Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George…..(Steel).
    About the French painter Seurat…..in the musical Seurat as he paints sings “….mustn’t forget the hat”.


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