Let’s wait 6 months and then I will be interested to hear about any of his new contributions inside a opera house…

Who are the sponsors of such event? Certainly not one hopes ‘The Conglomerate Dolly Girlie Websites of Russian Junk Mail- Financial Scammers’, surely.

Absent the world class orchestral and choral accompaniment and this is EXACTLY the description of Lady Gaga’s recent hit Radio City appearance.

I always wonder why you guys seem so threatened by this sort of thing. Dima’s [presumably] going to make a ton of money for himself, with which there is nothing wrong at all, will have had his own little bit of crossover, an operatic tradition that goes back to Schumann-Heink in Vaudeville, Ponselle starting in Vaudeville, Traubel in night clubs, etc. etc., then he’ll come back to Onegin and Yeletsky et al sans microphone and everything will be fine.

Think in the present: who gives a shit whether someone once paid out big bickies and went to some ’3 Tenors’ concert years ago? There are but a distant memory, nor would it hold any present importance or reference point, even as a party converation piece.
Deja-vu……..someone said. How apt.

Being at home, we can always drop a self chosen CD or DVD program in the player at no addtional cost, and play it to our heart’s content. Leave the fools to their own devices. The only way they are gong to learn any gain, is through self awareness and feelings – of having been personally exploited.

It may well be that he will loose this contest, though, having only two handicaps: His vision and the fact that he ranks up there with Bing Crosby in operatic vocal talent.

Dimi has at least three: Deaf and blind but not dumb to kitsch.

I thought that, at the point of contact of the two fingers, an amazing explosion would occur (honest) and was so disappointed.

Think of this as an economic stimulus package for all the players and singers onstage there.

Then, think how glad you are to not have to see it.