Comments on: Polly want a

By: browser

browser — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:14:54 +0000

So, anyway, I knew this old lady and I had heard she was rich or something, and I guessed she didn’t have too much time left..you know…so I, like, bought her books and shit; you gotta look after these people – and keep a sharp eye out to see if the milk bottles are being collected from the front step. Because, you know, if they’re not, then that’s payday….

By: Inveterate Gossip

Inveterate Gossip — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:39:07 +0000

I hope Julie Taymor is available to direct this.

If not (and surely that would be only because Spider-Man still hadn’t opened), then William Kentridge.

Maybe Basil Twist in a pinch.

By: leboyfriend

leboyfriend — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:33:42 +0000

I can see it now – Love on The Ledge.

By: messa di voce

messa di voce — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:21:09 +0000

Girls, girls, girls! How can you miss such an obvious, if unintentional, triple (quadrupal ?) entendre: red tails in Central Park?

I’m sure there will be a major role for our Squirrel and his nuts.

By: Bianca Castafiore

Bianca Castafiore — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:09:05 +0000

didn’t they just do “the birds” in LA recently? i heard the beginning of this on the radio. wasn’t too interesting.

of course, any ornithopera might have to ask me to sing it, since i was well known (and rightly acclaimed if i may) as the rossignol di milano. just ask captain haddock.

By: Valmont

Valmont — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:03:17 +0000

Maybe sell it as a Magic Flute spin off – “Papageno and Papagena ‘lay eggs’”

By: tannengrin

tannengrin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:39:46 +0000

Can’t wait for the casting proposals for the leads. One shrieking Soprano and one shrieking tenor coming right up.

By: Valmont

Valmont — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:30:16 +0000

Not Ricky Ian Gordon (although his next work for the Met is going to be amazing, I’ve heard bits and pieces that for a potential 2011 premiere), so maybe John Corigliano and Mark Adamo can do their first opera together, loosely depiciting their own New York love story.

By: Dan Johnson

Dan Johnson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:20:03 +0000

Pity Messiaen’s dead.