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Leave it to… Jane?

by | 4:04 pm | Mar 12, 2010

Jane_ArchibaldPer the Met’s press office, “Jane Archibald will make her Met debut as Ophélie in the Met’s new production of Thomas’s Hamlet, singing the role on April 5 and 9.”

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  • 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
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