Impossible things are happening every day
Remember “Toi et Moi,” the pectacular music video from which the above image is grabbed? Well, the terrific twosome who brought you that indelible video and perhaps slightly more delible audio, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Igor Krutoi, have done it again. Their newest collaboration, “a once-in-a-lifetime musical event” called “Deja Vu” arrives at Radio City Music Hall on March 6.
So, what is “Deja Vu,” you ask? Is it opera, rock concert, arena show, or what?
The answer is “or what,” actually. Ironically, “Deja Vu” promises to be something you’ve never seen before, to wit:
Breaking all operatic strictures and inventing a new style of music called “mono-show”, Krutoi and Hvorostovsky achieve the impossible; a perfect culmination of sight and sound in an epic high fantasy theatrical program filled with arias, ballads, parables, aerial installations, extensive scenery, state of the art lighting design, and a world class orchestral and choral accompaniment.
And it goes something like this:
uh, did they say “monoshow” or do I need my reading glasses??
wtf
Just tell me this CIECA, does Dima take if, ENFIN. All Off? If so, I’m booking the next flight outta here.
Take IT ALL OFF, Je m’excuse…just so exciiiiiiiiiiited!
I hear those divorce bills were nothing to sneeze at – then again, you can take the Silver Fox out of Siberia, but you can’t take Siberia etc. etc.
Good lord almighty! what a misguided, albeit, having seen a little don’t really want to see more, attempt at YOUtubing during a concert. He is stooping sorry. Anything with a mike isn’t opera, most likely this doesn;t want to be.
It will eventually be done right, but projections are difficult and hardly a new hybrid. Lots of money spent on this Jerk de soeile.
Mystified and cannot even spell correctly, I am so horrifed.
??????? – sack your manager.
Sorry – that was Dmitri in cyrillic characters (pinched from YouTube)
I’m astounded and woefully disappointed to learn of this. What are the underlying reasons for all these ‘defections’ to the other, the infernal side??
I will drink my Kool-Aid now, mistuh.
I think this kind of thing is much more in line with Dima’s sense of artistry than TROVATORE, for example.
Love the hair, love the tux, love the pianist, love the screen, love Michelangelo, love the choir folders with the treble clefs on them, love everything. Love it.
Slavotrash is the new Eurotrash.
Dmitri as Celtic Woman. I can’t stand it. Check the pianist’s face..(“Let me see…eggs, milk, no I have eggs…bread…cheese…….”)
The hair looks like a wig to me.
One could scarcely imagine John Shirley-Quirk carrying on in this shameful fashion.
Whadaya mean Shirley??? it’s even too f**kin much for Bryn Terfel!!!
Why is Trebs not dancing in the background?
Netrebko ia planned to appear in the number right after this one. She sings Happy Birthday in Russian to Deutsche Grammofon. It’s impressive.
Oh dear. He doesn’t even seem to sing with his full voice but holding back all the time for the mike. Re-importing the Varlamov Ava Maria actually seems a fun idea, though it needs a bit more professional execution to make it stream-of-consciousness than “Musicaaa-aaaa-aaave Maria”.
World class choir and orchestra sure. They all look like, hey we only do this for the money, okay?