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Here’s the place for all your chatting needs, cher public, during tonight’s broadcast of Elektra from the Met.
The official chat begins at 7:45 pm for an 8:00 curtain.
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Listen closely to Heidi Melton, who is making her Met debut here as “Serving Woman 2″. This is a great dramatic voice you will be hearing much more from!
A preview…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FpVIfoDn1Y&feature=related
I love it when the agents post here.
I am not this lady’s agent and I have seen a lot of bodies float down the fleuve and yet I repeat, this girl is good and I don’t say that often. Especially in this, the Tin Age of Opera.
Absolutely correct.
Heidi Melton, whom I heard from second orchestra row, her side of house, substituted on 48 hours notice for ‘It’s Pat’ last summer @ War Memorial in Verdi Requiem and exhibited perfect aplomb with nerves of steel, a sizeable lyrico-spinto soprano of surprising quality, and a fearlessly assured delivery of this daunting soprano solo. I was most gladdened by her performance and wish success in spades to her. N.B. Lovely face, needs to manage the bod.
I was going to fly in from San Diego, but work intervned.
Great orchestra! Luisi is a fabulous Strauss conductor
This is kinda scary from the Elektra, and not in a good way either.
Oy vey, La Bullock. Utterly worn and faded. Where is Jennifer Wilson where you need her?
I have never heard Susan Bullock. She is not sounding that bad. Any relation to the actress?
No relation to the current box office queen, but weirdly, Sandra Bullock’s mother was an opera singer. She talked about her mother a lot in early interviews, saying that she wished she had a voice like her mother and would like to have had an opera career. I have been able to find little reference available about Sandy Bullock’s mother though.
Did anyone ever see her or hear of her, or was she just a local singer that Sandy thought had a real career?
Not sure about her mother, but Sandra Bulock’s father John has worked as a voice coach among other things. Jennifer Larmore is just one of the starrier names to have studied with him.
Where?
Sandra claimed that her mother Helga had a voice like Maria Callas. No recordings and no reviews are extant though.
But listen to the orchestra! Such great grip – tempo, dynamics, thematic material, textures transparent! Hearing so many things that are usually swamped
I guess I have not heard that many Elektras then. She is not sounding that ragged to me.
Its not exactly about the worn quality, its the temperament that is utterly wrong: she sounds like a cross schoolmistress instead of, well, Elektra
any Youtube videos/audios of Elektra we should hear?
try this --
and this -- DEMENTED
sorry the demented is here --
Ah, Eva and Gwyneth. Good times indeed. How I would love a good quality, professional release of that Orange performance…
Thank you!
Or try this:
My God, Dame Gwyneth slides into those notes like a trombone; pitch by gradual approximation.
I would not call this the Elektra to erase Bjork or Nilsson, but a solid performance:
and thanks to you!
I’d say that Bjork is much more of a Fifth Maid, despite her success in Pierrot Lunaire…
Armerjaquino, you deserve at least an lol for that!
I have to confess that’s what I felt too when she sang it at Covent Garden. A gallant attempt, and cleverly managed vocally with a voice that isn’t really up to the part, but she lacked tragic stature.
I’ve never quite understood Bullock’s attempt to move into the heldensopran category. ‘Gallant’ and ‘cleverly managed vocally with a voice that isn’t really up to the part’ is right on the money for me. She’s a ballsy, committed singer who seems to be making her career singing things that she maybe shouldn’t be singing. But then she wouldn’t be the first.
There’s a wobble and the voice is certainly quite worn sounding, but 1) it was a pretty decent monologue for current standards and 2) I’ve heard her sing this role a couple of times, and I think that’s the best I’ve heard her in the monologue (some earlier attempts bordering on serious filth). I’m not a fan of Bullock at all, but the monologue was definitely better than I expected to hear.