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.
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…
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??
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”?