Comments on: Gayer than…?

pinotnoir1980 commented

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

… where can I rent the guys

Camille commented

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.

louannd commented

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:

Baltsamic Vinaigrette commented

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.

wenarto commented

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

this is one of the gayest of all….

Regina delle fate commented

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.

Chanterelle commented

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?

judycadanna commented

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.

judycadanna commented

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.

Alto commented

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.

Noel Dahling commented

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

The Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League has done it again!

CruzSF commented

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

Cocky Kurwenal commented

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!

CruzSF commented

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.

operabitch commented

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

Is that Tori Spelling in “Trick?”

Sanford commented

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?

schweigundtanze commented

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.

La Cieca commented

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

m. croche commented

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)

Lindoro Almaviva commented

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.