parterre box

39 comments

• Olivero is my Drug of Choice says:

  I listened to the Marten Aller Arten clip. I discovered a voice, while pleasant, of no distinctive qualities and a technique that has a fleeting relationship with pitch.

  on March 13, 2010 at 9:36 AM
• wladek says:

  enzo – she is not too bad ,but the owner of that aria on record is still Korjus -with the necessary cuts for
  those days to get most on one side at 78rm-It is from the Korjus Berlin
  opera days . and 1930s recording
  techniques -nothing like advantages
  of to-day . Without vibrato to cover
  up ,her pitch and technique at the time and even for to-day is unmatched .

  on March 13, 2010 at 11:35 AM
• arepo says:

  Where’d you get that picture? She looks like she smelled something bad.

  on March 13, 2010 at 4:56 PM
• Clita del Toro says:

  Yeah, she smelled Renay’s perfume!

  on March 16, 2010 at 7:34 PM
• Valmont says:

  NPR is saying that “soprano Natalie Dessay hurt her back, and New York needed Petersen.” Anyone hear of this back injury in another source?

  on March 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM
• Camille says:

  Buster @28 — Dank U! Very kind, indeed, to go to such a length to explain the minaret tunic for me! I am sincerely interested in all Poiret trivia; this makes me doubly sorry to have missed the big exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a couple years back. I suppose I should buy a big book on him, perhaps one similar to my Vionnet album, which is a treasure.

  At any rate, I along with Chanel, must mourn for Poiret’s demise.

  on March 17, 2010 at 10:11 AM
• Buster says:

  Camille, graag gedaan, you could also ask for a Sorbet – that is the name of the example in the picture. Schiaparelli only has wonderful things to say about Poiret in her book. She also talks about opera, by the way – a most amusing report on her tour to Cuba with the fabulous Ganna Walska. The renovated Musee des arts decoratifs had a couple of amazing Poirets on display last time I was there.

  on March 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM
• Camille says:

  Ganna Walska! @ Buster 37 — do you know of her famous hacienda in Santa Barbara, “Lotusland”? I intend to visit sometime in the summer. Thank you again, Buster.

  on March 19, 2010 at 12:24 AM
• Buster says:

  Camille – no, I never heard of Ganna Walska’s hacienda before. I would love to read a full report when you visit. I lived in Chicago for a couple of years, and heard many Walska stories there – my kind of singer.

  on March 19, 2010 at 4:17 AM