Mr. Conductor, if you please!
Which A-list Dirigent is currently unwinding in a private facility, singing duets with himself?
Which opera company’s usually jovial antegenerale audience erupted into a lion’s den of booing when the maestro took his bow? (By the way, the tenor bought it too.)
Lion’s den = Daniel = Barenboim at La Scala?
Does “the tenor bought it too” mean Kaufmann hired a claque to boo the maestro or that he was booed as well?
Sounds like “bought it” was, in part at least, a clue to Kaufmann. (Kaufen, as you may know, is German for “to buy.”)
“the tenor bought it too” – sounds (to me) more like the tenor got booed as well, not that he was booing.
Well, the “antegenerale” is an Italian word… so we know this is in Italy (Although it could be French, but I am sure LC would have added accents)
The Conductor is referred to as “Dirigent” letting us know he is German.
The Dress Rehearsal for Carmen at La Scala is tomorrow, meaning the penultimate rehearsal was either yesterday or today.
All this fit the bill.
I wonder what Barenboim did to merit those boos… I generally think of him highly!
Jovial could also refer to the student audience that usually attend la scala’s antegeneralres.
In this case, the Student perofrmance is actually the final dress rehearsal, which is today.
How many public rehearsals does La Scala put on? – This one of course already happened…
Perhaps his editing of Emma Dante’s regie? (though I would stand with him on that matter.)
Wait a sec, is this one blind item or two? Are the Dirigent in the first question and the maestro in the second the same person?
They are different people.
This kind of sordid nonsense would never occur in Buxton.
Quite. The persistent refusal of these two artists to expose their wares to the hard-to-please public of Buxton and and to its organs of publicity [if our Doyenne will permit me the use of such a graphic term] is the stuff of legend.
Don’t all conductors live in their own private worlds? I thought that comes with the job!
Taking a big leap here, but unwind suggests watches which suggest Switzerland, so I’ll guess Daniele Gatti who is the general music director of the Zurich Opera.
Fabio Luisi has ties to Switzerland as well, but I assume we would have heard something if he hadn’t shown up for Elektra rehearsals.
Ah, that explains his Aida at the Met.
Gatti – singing CAT duets with himself, of course!
Not really surprising, considering the onstage freakout he had several years ago wit the Royal Philharmonic.
Ooh, Squirrel, excellent detective work. The title of course, is: Duetto buffo di due gatti.
Very subtle, yes tasty blind clue.
Luisi is in the Met pit, and doing first-rate work from my sources.