It’s Pat!
Tonight’s Met season premiere of Il trittico features Patricia Racette’s first local whack at the three heroines, which means La Cieca expects the parterre posse to be out in force. Check back here at parterre.com beginning at 7:45 for a live chat coinciding with the Sirius/RealNetworks broadcast of the Puccini three-parter.
I’ve tried to like her voice but it is a shade too raw, or perhaps “dikey”. Who knows?
O&E ?
To me, it’s a really Anglo-Saxon sound. The sort of thing Vicar John ought to like. But with that blonde wig on as Lauretta, she really reminds me of the late, great Madeline Kahn. If anyone ever makes an opera of Blazing Saddles …
dorion says: “Racette is a generic soprano, a limited actress…”
OK, dorion, if Racette is ‘limited” ( which nothing I have ever seen her do would suggest), whom would you consider a “gifted” operatic actress?
Jeez…