Cast the first chat
UPDATE: La Cieca hears that Sondra Radvanovsky is ill this afternoon, which presumably means Juliana DiGiacomo will sing Lina.
Here, cher public, is your Saturday afternoon chat posting for Stiffelio. The performance begins at 1:00 PM.
The real-time chat is, as usual, over at La Casa della Cieca.
Still young, you say…?
great diction, very good hefty voice with actual verve and significantly less fidgety than she who will sing violetta later this season..
whatever happened to this woman?
Pendatchanska? She’s a star now.
ok. maybe i just havent heard about her until now.
Dorion !- bless you , now no one can say Stiffelio was any better than this . You give us proof .
isn’t Mr Lahr the real
artist opposed to what the Met has, considering the closing first
act singing if one wanys to call it that .
pendatchanska is not that young, is she?
His substitute was probably Domingo, Himself!
Cannot help wondering what Aprile Millo might have sounded like in this part, say around 1990? Miss DiGiacomo has a nice voice, possibly for Gilda or Luisa Miller. I got zero dramatic expression/intention out of her singing.
The miracle of Don Jose Cura! How does he do it? That inimitable voce strangolata of his should have long since been over–the rattiest technical ability I’ve almost ever heard from a tenor. So sublimely indifferent, too.
I think (besides Cura being controversial, wasn’t that bad either…) something was wrong with the mikes, or with the transmission sound… I was listening to it on a radio then I was wondering why it sounds so awful, then I switched to the internet and listened to it on earphones… Was definitely better. The problem with Cura is that he is not consequent/consistent. He has an amazing voice but he is sometimes lazy and should have a more solid technique… but he spend his time on conducting (really average conducting, rather bad than good…) and not to practice more singing… shame…
Where was Julian Gavin????
Hiding under a rock.
Down in Australia at the moment, Vicar if I am correct. Frankly Gavin I beleive would be better to stay put in things like Manon or in Rusalka, which he does well, for the moment.
I noticed the Met Futures page has recently been updated over at Sieglinde’s website, and that S Radvanovsky is getting a new production of Roberto Devereux during the 2013-2014 season.
Does anyone have the scoop on this?
Well Camille you bring to light, an interesting possible proposition…….if………Domingo was the cover, the problem is simply solved. Put a ‘dummy’ on stage to mime, then Domingo could pull off his greatest feat of all Time. Conduct the orchestra while singing Don Jose at the same time! The sound balance might be a bit’out’ for the audience though…
So this actually confrims what she said in an interview not too long ago. She’s going to work her way through the tudors and then sing Norma. I can already imagine hearing Rad singing “Quel sangue”.
And a ton of additional updates have been added to the page too! A new production of Cav/Pag for starters…
Yes, as La Cieca said at the time (in a filk of I’m Still Here):
“Saw Cura’s debut – and wondered why he was here.”
He’s quite atrocious on computer-cast, was merely woolly in the house. Not a Met-worthy artist.
Hi Mr. Hans Lick — have missed U — hope you are busy and well.
When is the MET going to do our Huguenots??
Oh Harry, you got it! Just think of the publicity it would generate, not to mention the records books. Or perhaps he could sing as Cura conducts??
She sings a fabulously temperamental Vitellia, Elettra and Donna Elvira on Rene Jacobs’s respective recordings of Clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo and Don Giovanni. I saw her as Gilda with WNO (Welsh) – must be 20 years ago when she was about 20 and I’m a bit surprised she isn’t a superstar. This Traviata clip suggests she could have been, few rough edges, but an amazing voice for a 17 year-old, no?
Radvanovsky in DEVEREUX? Can’t think of anything worse! Beverly AND Donizetti would be rolling over!! DiGiacomo eclipsed Radvanovsky in EVERY way!
Sorry that this comment comes so late, but was anyone who listened to the singers’ round table as puzzled as I was that none of the sopranos (Kiri, Stemme, and I forget the other)did get the concept of “enjoying one’s sound”?