Infectious diseuse
La Cieca hears that Olga Borodina still has whatever it was she had on Wednesday, and so will have to cancel tonight’s Met performance of Carmen as well.
While we wait for Mme. Borodina’ recovery, let’s enjoy Madeline Kahn in an obscure Cole Porter ditty.
is there any news on the Attila front?
Yes, good question! This Attila is the best kept secret since the Manhattan Project. Curious minds want to know!
does anyone know who the tenor is here?
Sounds like the EMI studio recording, which would make it Nicola Monti.
If you watch clear to the end, it says who it is in the credits rather clearly… Nicola Monti, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votti, 1957.
thanks, when i listen to youtube, i usually don’t watch the video. grazie.
i see the met is bringing back rodelinda. what do you people think the chances are that they’ll do it with podles instead of a CT???? i think that’d been fantastic. oh well… one can dream, can’t one?
As one of Madame Podles’ most devoted fans, I think I can say that her best days in florid music are pretty well past. I don’t know Rodelinda at all (is it the source of “con rauco marmorio”? I would give my left something to hear Podles sing that) but I assume it has plenty of noodling around. Podles can still do it but it can be effortful at times.
Bertarido will almost certainly, as you suggest, be sung by a countertenor. But there’s no reason why Podles shouldn’t sing Eduige (prediction: it’ll be Stephanie Blythe).
I hope you guys get a chance to see and hear Antonacci as Rodelinda- she’s electric in it.
armer, i saw it before with fleming, blythe, daniels and van rensburg. how i wish it was podles as the hero. i can’t stand CTs. sorry… that’s just my opinion. no mezzo/contralto looks convincingly like a warrior hero on stage but at least they sound good/healthy.
Andreas Scholl is singing it, if I’m not mistaken.
Scholl was very very good in this role the last time around. . .
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Bejun Mehta was amazing in Tamerlano. I wish he would sing the title role instead of Scholl. Mehta had a small role (I forget the character’s name) in the premiere season of Rodelinda. He was excellent then but I think he really further developed since then.
the night i saw it, mehta was ill and they had a mezzo (hanslowe) instead.
and btw, why does the met think only fleming in the whole world is capable of singing armida? they are going to do it again in a few years with her and her only. i hope she cancels one or two perf. this spring so her cover can go on (meade?).
I would love to hear Joyce DiDonato give Armida a shot, based on the excerpts on her newest CD. Some transposition might be necessary, but who cares, it happened in the 19th century all the time (you could call it a newly-discovered Malibran version).
Agreed!I think Joyce Didonato would be fabulous in Armida and I was hoping that she would be listed for it on “Met futures”
I suppose she has her hands full with “La donna del Lago” which sadly doesn’t seem to be on the agenda for any US opera houses next year (with her).
The “donna del lago” Joyce is doing in Paris and elsewhere was initially a co-production with the Met, Scala, etc., but they decided to go with Maria Stuarda instead for her at the Met.
Do not count Joyce out for “Armida.” Nothing is set in stone for that revival…
I think I heard that Houston is now co-producing La donna del Lago with the Opéra, La Scala and Covent Garden, and I’m pretty sure it’s for La DiDone
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Thanks, Cassandra for the info on the “Donna del Lago” production Joyce is doing ( with Florez, I think?) Sorry the Met decided to drop it, but can’t have everything.