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By: Often admonished

Often admonished — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:21:22 +0000

It’s better that way. Now I’ll always type “Zambello [i]thinks[/i]” instead of the less descriptive alternative.

By: GayGiovanni

GayGiovanni — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:39:38 +0000

This is an enchanting productiom amd I loved every minute. Some people have no soul!

By: Regina delle fate

Regina delle fate — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:06:09 +0000

Yes Queen A, it IS an enchanting score and it could be done well with a bit of taste and imagination, qualities you don’t expect from Zambello. She gets work at the ROH because the opera director there “discovered” her – at least for Europe – when she ran the Wexford Festival. This is her third flop at Covent Garden, after Queen of Spades and Carmen, but the contracts apparently keep coming. We all hoped The Little Mermaid would make her a millionaire and we’d seen the last of her with Carmen.

By: javier

javier — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:33:00 +0000

If I hadn’t watched Sex and the City then I would never have figured out the title of this post because I’m not into women’s fashion at all. Still, it’s clever.

By: queen amahelli

queen amahelli — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:46:29 +0000

Well I think it’s a beautiful score, and just because the the tunes aren’t world-famous like ‘Nutcracker’ doesn’t mean there aren’t any. Reviewers can tend to be deaf to unfamiliarity. Problem is, it’s not dramatic and the genre is tedious: all those comic peasants and faux-folksiness. ENO did Rimsky’s version of the same story ‘Christmas Eve’ ages ago – about 20 years – and that just about got away with it as it has a stronger second half, and it had a Pountney production that was deliriously spectacular – but these are operas for the theatre of the mind.

More to the point, when is someone going to rumble Zambello? Mediocre Mediocre Mediocre. Toujours mediocre. How the %$#@ do these people get work? Does she bullwhip them? (more than likely)

By: Orlando Furioso

Orlando Furioso — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:22:16 +0000

And I forgot what kind of HTML brackets we use here; sorry.

By: Orlando Furioso

Orlando Furioso — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:20:58 +0000

Zambello [i]thinks[/i] she can be a regular theater pro with a popular touch (see also: [i]The Little Mermaid[/i]); but she really, really can’t.

By: 79CXR

79CXR — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:13:19 +0000

The Tsarina’s Flipflops,I left at the interval and went to the pub.

Any good reviews that you see, ignore them, they know fuck all.

By: Quanto Painy Fakor

Quanto Painy Fakor — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:47:46 +0000

Now that’s one really ugly photo!
Yawn.

By: louannd

louannd — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:43:12 +0000

It looks like those folks should just save their money take their children to The Nutcracker.