Comments on: Gayer than…?

By: pinotnoir1980

pinotnoir1980 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:21:48 +0000

… where can I rent the guys

By: Camille

Camille — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:26:57 +0000

Ciechissima!
Is that YOU in the purple frock in the middle?

If so, it certainly suits you far more than that grey suit you wore in “Aunt Cieca…” — it did not suit you, either the suit or the colour.

By: louannd

louannd — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:10:25 +0000

I know I’m late on this post but (besides Wenarto) surely nothing beats this Fairy Queen for gayness:

By: Baltsamic Vinaigrette

Baltsamic Vinaigrette — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:27:11 +0000

Alas, even when we allow for the downward transposition, the vocal difficulties have become all too obvious by now. Wenarto’s ill-advised recent foray into the German repertoire comes back to haunt him here. But there is much to admire in this thrillingly visceral production, and while neophytes may be advised to start elsewhere, this is one that I would not be without.

By: wenarto

wenarto — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:16:10 +0000

this is one of the gayest of all….

By: Regina delle fate

Regina delle fate — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:30:26 +0000

The clip seems to be Caroline Sampson – uuuurgggh – from a Barcelona staging of David Poutney’s hilariously vulgar ENO production. You’ll be getting her scratchy singing when Jonathan Kent’s Glyndebourne Fairy Queen gets to BAM next year. Watch out for Lucy Crowe – she’s a real talent.

By: Chanterelle

Chanterelle — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:25:57 +0000

Sanford, it’s A SINGLE Man. Saw a preview for it a few days ago. The online trailer has a couple of shots of men kissing that were not screened in the theater.

La Cieca, who is that dirndled Minnie Mouse and what the hail is she singing?

By: judycadanna

judycadanna — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:18:47 +0000

what Mensan thought it would be a good idea to have the chorus boys pick the soprano up by her diaphragm and clump around the stage with her during her extended high notes? christ, i fucking hate directors.

By: judycadanna

judycadanna — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:12:53 +0000

holy crap; rigoletto as austin powers– even for German directors who hate Italian opera, this is atrocious.

By: Alto

Alto — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:10:00 +0000

Gosh. Except for the bad singing — not, one admits, a minor consideration — I think that’s a charming way to present the masques or semi-operas that are set in Arcadia, a manner lost on almost all moderns. I’d a lot rather see this piece updated to a ditzy — and, yes, a faggy — modern milieu than almost all strainings after doubtful originality in nineteenth-century operas, in which the culture is not so remote that it needs to be radically reinterpreted to be comprehensible.

By: Noel Dahling

Noel Dahling — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:41:00 +0000

The Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League has done it again!

By: CruzSF

CruzSF — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:37:23 +0000

By: Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:32:38 +0000

It opens in London in early December. Not sure if it is being released in the US before or after, but yes, it absolutely does exist!

By: CruzSF

CruzSF — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:01:41 +0000

Sanford, if that movie really exists, it’s going to the top of my Netflix queue.

By: operabitch

operabitch — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:46:48 +0000

Is that Tori Spelling in “Trick?”

By: Sanford

Sanford — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:44:08 +0000

Is that really gayer than Tom Ford directing Colin Firth in a movie based on Christopher Isherwood’s A Simple Man, with Julianne Moore as an aging fag hag?

By: schweigundtanze

schweigundtanze — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:13:14 +0000

The original video looks like a production of “The Boyfriend.” And wow, that bitch cannot sing.

By: La Cieca

La Cieca — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:11:05 +0000

By: m. croche

m. croche — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:46:44 +0000

Our esteemed hostess is, of course, always correct. Nonetheless, fallen mortal that I am, I continue to believe – stubbornly adhering to the blind error of my ways – that the gayest thing ever is the Chinese 18th-century novel The Dream of Red Mansions, centering on the emotional and poetic aspirations of a group of women (and one extremely fey young man) in a few conjoined households. Ronald Firbank, though without the archness.

A sample:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/yVEe7IpvmLI/

(here the fey young man is played a woman, as is traditional in Shaoxing opera. the whole opera can be seen on tudou.com)

By: Lindoro Almaviva

Lindoro Almaviva — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:42:09 +0000

Is there a way for this woman to hit the right pitches? Damn, I couldn’t stand it after 20 seconds.

By: kashania

kashania — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:28:49 +0000

Terribly gay but not necessarily in a fabulous way.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:13:45 +0000

Off topic of this post, but a comment that the Christopher Alden production of Don Giovanni that premiered at City Opera yesterday afternoon was cheered warmly (NO booing for the production team but much applause and bravoing). I thought it one of the finest pieces of opera directing I have experienced so far, psychologically sound, very theatrical, soundly based on the text, and vwey well performed by the entire cast.

Conductor Gary Thor Wedow and the cast ornamented second verses, there was some very good singing from the cast–six debuts among the seven of them–and excellent acting. Combined with the revival of Esther, no matter what criticisms one may have of the work itself, it seems to me that Mr Steele and the company have put NYCO back on the scene as strongly as could be imagined given the disaster they all walked into.

My sincere compliments to everyone involved, and hopes that they can pull off the rest of what they need to do during the rest of this truncated come-back season.

By: Quanto Painy Fakor

Quanto Painy Fakor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:19:02 +0000

By: Quanto Painy Fakor

Quanto Painy Fakor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:18:16 +0000

Gay? You want Gay in the worst sense? Go to Bonn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SP0XbpJ2N0

By: Quanto Painy Fakor

Quanto Painy Fakor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:11:00 +0000

By: Quanto Painy Fakor

Quanto Painy Fakor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:03:57 +0000

By: Baltsamic Vinaigrette

Baltsamic Vinaigrette — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:32:01 +0000

Supremely gay – though not necessarily in a good way, alas. I saw this at the Liceu in Bercelona in September 2002 and it baffled (if not bored) the entire audience. I feel sure the Catalans have a decently-evolved sense of irony – they have given us Calixto “drop your pants NOW, fellas” Bieito, after all – but this try-too-hard production was lost on everybody.