Trilogy of chatter
La Cieca invites all the cher public to a troika of talk during tonight’s Met season premiere of Il trittico. The performance begins at 8:00 pm.
For vocal scores of these operas, try the Giacomo Puccini page of the IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library.
The librettos:
anyone home? I’m loving Racette so far, I might have to go see this.
Here comes the crazy cat lady.
Ha. I’m here.
Hmmm. I’m surprised that there’s only the two of us. Trittico must be very unpopular. It’s become one of my favorites.
Is this the best cast for Trittico the Met can present? Maybe it should be given in English. At least those Americans new to opera could understand it. The New York City Opera before the 80′s could have done much better.
LOL. Well, that’s not going to do us much good now since that was THIRTY years ago. What specifically don’t you like about tonight’s performance?
Please suggest a better cast from today’s performers.
I guess narraboth couldn’t think of anyone. LOL.
Listened to the broadcast on the way home.
I’m back. I do like Antonenko (sp?) and think Giorgetta is a good match for Racette. But I’m listening to the RealAudio stream and the audio quality is not very good so I’m just listening and wishing I was in the house so I could hear decently and see the big-ass boat.
I think the Met’s boat might have a bigger ass than we had in SF. Our view was lengthwise.
why did the audience laugh when Lucic said “sgualdrina”? that’s not really supposed to be funny.
Racette did this in SF too, no? How was she live?
The boat is big. Though I only saw this production on the PBS broadcast.
was that laughter or gasps?
She did. I thought she was fantastic in every piece. She really disappeared into each role and was barely recognizable in appearance, manner, and voice.
Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi aren’t on the IMSLP; you have to use Google for this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ITtYAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover
or here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?yzwzitkdmdz
I meant to say they can’t be downloaded from the IMSLP at this time.