Libre elle est née
Why does La Cieca suspect that Angela Gheorghiu has, for the moment anyway, forgotten the denouement of Bizet’s opera?
“The problem is that Roberto can never accept that I want to perform with anyone else. I am like Carmen, you see, I need to be free to make my own decisions, and there are many tenors that I like to sing with – Jonas Kaufmann is one, Vittorio Grigolo another.”
L’evasiva continues her Rehabilitation Tour by charming the socks off Rupert Christiansen. [Telegraph]
Or Mary Louise Parker starring the French remake of “Weeds.”
poplavskaya (sp?) looks like Samantha Bee while she’s twirling her foot.
More evidence, as if any were needed, that opera singers should only open their mouths when singing (or giving blow jobs) and keep the commentary to those who have at least a resemblance to someone equipped with a brain.
i hope she screws up her carmen and traviatas…. i will be waiting patiently….
i know i know.. evil and not nice. fuck off
I am so indifferent to Gheorghiu.
And of course you may have seen
http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/09_novembre_01/alagna-gheorghiu-star-lirica_e655fd64-c6c4-11de-b8db-00144f02aabc.shtml
I hate that one with Polpavskaya. At least Anna looked–I think–classy in the Decker production. Her hair didn’t look like a fucking birds’ nest and her dress was form-fitting. When I saw that, I wanted to do her, and I still do.
When I look at Poplavskaya, she just looks, well…skanky. I wouldn’t do her, especially looking like that.
Whatever objections people may have to the Decker production, it doesn’t destroy the music or Piave’s libretto, and with Trebs and Villazon, it was dramatically exciting and compelling, if not always musically perfect. Because it’s so sparse, it takes performers who are really committed actors in order to make it work. That Salzburg 2005 Traviata, for all its faults, was quite magical and electric.
And I don’t think people will be scandalized by it the way they were by Bondy’s Tosca, simply because anyone who has been paying attention to goings on in opera in the last five years will be aware if it, if only for Anna.
My only quarrel with JATM2063′s comment in #4 is the totally unjustified use of the word “rather.” She WAS, IS, and ALWAYS HAS BEEN. I almost never ENJOY watching a singer take a pratfall, but if this spoiled brat lands on her tush, I’ll shout bravo.
“VIXEN!”
A remake of the Russ Meyer 1968 classic, starring that glam gal of opera,
ANGELA GHEORGHIU
It finalluy came to me thanks to @5 Drammy’s Drooling! A big shoutout of Grazie to him.
Seriously, after reading Corriere della Sera interview (@26 Manou) — it all sounds a little darker and more serious — Roberto sounding like a tipico testardo siciliano.
All I know is this: when I saw them sing Boheme together, about five years ago, he cracked. Not once, nor even twice, but THREE bloody times on their unison High C @ Act I’s conclusion
. I mean, WTF do you talk about @ breakfast?
I’m betting that Angela will hook up with some other coif stupebit ASAP.