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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]
I adore her antics. I find them endlessly entertaining and hope she keeps them up. So she ruins her career. It’s not my career, so why worry? There are lots of other sopranos from lots of other places waiting to take her place.
For UK readers – what is that photo in the Telegraph in the dodgy blonde wig? She reminds me of the dear late Wendy Richards, half way between ‘Are You Being Served’ and ‘East Enders’.
queen amahelli — it’s from the Covent Garden Faust (David McVicar’s staging). She’s evoking that Manet painting of the barmaid. This is the production that also had Bryn Terfel in drag for the Walpurgisnacht. Horrible thought.
This Rumanian broad is just coming across like a bad tempered but dumb bimbo tart, trying to hide her shortcomings. I couldn’t care less, even if this promoted ‘bag’ was having an wild affair with a broomstick. She is showing she does not know the first thing about gaining real public respect, by pissing off managements. She should go back to the rightful abode for such creatures as herself.. As for genuine intelligence, the judgment or the ability to instinctively know how to musically foster her career…..I suspect socially she uses ‘survival cunning’ masquerading as charm. Whoever chosen, as useful to her at any given moment: is probably her latest confidante. Well this warbling Cinderella will find the clock is ticking….her pumpkin coach career is on a certain projectile journey . Just let us know, when it crashes into a brick wall.
Who are we kidding?
Where else could one ever get such fabulous exposure and free publicity than to front the news pages with petulance and nastiness?
You haven’t heard the last of this kid!
She’s no dumb broad.
Don’t understimate the Decker Traviata, it’s a modern production that actually works very well (I saw it in Amsterdam with Poplavskaya – who really wasn’t too bad).
Well Brittany is going around te World with her Circus tour, openly lip synching to her records…’doing live concerts’ there will be a measure of tolerance elsewhere in the classical sphere for unpredictable antics, I suppose.
That ridiculous ‘hot publicity shot’ of A.G makes her look like she is ‘resting’ between ‘exercising her tonsils engagements’, waiting for the doorbell or the phone to ring…. Sure she is not pretending to morph the role of Lulu, ‘a woman of the World’ as she browses a mag called La Monde? No folks , it is just another put-on like everything else about her, is fake,fake, fake manufactured tripe P.R.. Can anyone name just one opera where they would prefer to listen to this A.G than someone else’s version of it???!!! She is as exciting, as one, being asked to consume prickled herrings , left out of the fridge with the lid off for weeks! I cannot believe people actually take her seriously. Opera is certainly in a lot of trouble if they do.
And to think we have just had a parterre discussion on that other misfit Bartoli, the Baroque banshee. Incessant machine gun beat in her middle register, plus all that eye screwing and face contortion expression : throwing in wild cranium placed pitch notes for no rhyme or reason, except as camouflage netting, to disguise her shortcomings.
If one remembers back, she learned and honed this annoying affectation habit during her over expressive ‘a la Rossini’ concert presentation mannerisms ‘to please audiences’. That expression of so much over the top animated physical effort to achieve the vocal results. The transient flocking Kulture Vultures ‘dipping their passing toes – into a little baroque’ are now mighty impressed. Cannot blame them really, they also would not have been familiar with this type of wave marketing : ‘Go Pop… with Celicia’s Selection of Period Drearys’ – before, either.
Luckily, we still have the unspoiled Dame Katherine Jenkins. She was great fun on the Graham Norton show the other day. I really liked her.
Buster, making such a provocative statement comment (39#) , deserves being placed in the stocks and metered out the sternest punishment imaginable! Forced to listen to all the Vicar of Wakefield’s choice of A list chorus singers past and present plus Kath Jerks, Paul Poop, and Sarah Brightsparks for the next 12 months 24/7.