Trapped in the closet
La Cieca is informed that tomorrow’s final dress rehearsal of Hamlet is as closed as closed can be: covers, Met staff and a few handpicked guests of Peter Gelb are the only humans to be allowed in the auditorium as the Thomas is teched. It’s natural enough, since — as we all know — the opening night Ophélie, Marlis Petersen, will not be present for this last runthrough, busy as she is singing Medea in Vienna gleichzeitzig. This veil of secrecy is like catnip to La Cieca, of course, so should you, cher pube, be one of the chosen few to get a glimpse of Simon Keenyside‘s Dane, please, please, drop your doyenne an email with all the details!
rapt: In the future, I must remember that bit of silver-lining thinking, i.e. bringing a third umlaut to a cast. LOL
Jane: Roberta Peters
Blanche: Eva Marton
Elvira: Florence Quivar
Edwin Flagg: Peter Rose
Jane – Brian Asawa
Blanche – David Daniels
Elvira – Bejun Mehta
Edwin – Donald Gramm
Thomas Schippers conducting (from the wall)
Haha @ Brian Asawa, David Daniels and Bejun Mehta!That’s SOOOOO wicked!
Armerj – the premiere of Carmelites in Nice is October – 12, I think. Sylvie Brunet will be Mme de Croissy- she’s an excellent singer, all but unknown outside France.
Presumably the score of the Asawa/Daniels/Mehta version would have to be rewritten by Peter Eötvös.
Whoops, wrong thread previously:
Chère manou (#42), you are about to get re-usurped … Don’t you mean to say: ‘…**où** sont les neiges d’antan?’?