Comments on: In endless waiting rooms

By: jatm2063

jatm2063 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:47:10 +0000

Manou: How clever of you to find a picture of me in my Parterre Award dress! Isn’t it just gorgeous. It flatters my alabaster complexion and dark hair wonderfully.

FYI, I am Anne Hathaway’s long lost, identical, EVIL twin. Well, just a little bit evil, not TOO evil.

By: manou

manou — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:43:03 +0000

jatm

http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/0/3987/08_2008/ah_4.jpg

By: Ruxton

Ruxton — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:22:24 +0000

Congratulations jatm. I liked your review and have to admit I always found la Sass a little suss. I bought her “Attila” and it sounded like she was singing with a throat full of cough syrrup and her arse hanging over a boiling mud pool- sorta smokey and very urgent.
Keep up the good work, love a review that’s not up itself and leaves me feeling like a dunce.

By: jatm2063

jatm2063 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:51:34 +0000

DO I GET A PRIZE FOR THIS TOO?

I remember those DVD reviews La Cieca assigned out a while ago. Those were fun. I bought at least two recordings based on those reviews.

It’s too bad, but I am not nearly OLD enough to have seen Sass in anything. I can only experience her on recordings, which I imagine favored her kind of voice rather well.

Maybe I could just review that Bayreuth Walkure I have too…..or at least listen to it.

By: BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK

BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:13:17 +0000

It’s a bigger honor to win. But the biggest honor of all is when the only man you’ve ever loved runs off to a desert island with some cheap tart who just won a third-rate beauty contest. Oh yeah, I’m honored up the wazoo. Excuse me, Vicar — “honoured.”

By: Baritenor

Baritenor — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:54:12 +0000

It’s an honor to be nominated.

By: CruzSF

CruzSF — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:15:39 +0000

Congrats to jatma! I hope you’ll regale us with the title of at least one opera-related item you acquire with your award-winning loot. May I add: it’s an honor to [cough, cough] receive just a special mention.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:00:12 +0000

I agree with Clita on Sass’ Met Tosca. What a big NOTHING. Here I was expecting this flaming temperament
with a somewhat uneven voice. Her voice was sturdy but TINY. And she defined provincial in the way that no longer exists like her experience was going in some 4th tier opera house. My most vivid memory of the performance was that she wore dangly earrings in act 1 and she spent the entire time with Cavaradossi wiggling her head so that the earrings would jangle.

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:31:45 +0000

jatm…congratulations.

Now, to achieve the next level of irony, you must order obscure DVDs/CDs from amazon.com and leave them still in their shrinkwrap on some dusty shelf since, after all, that was what this fun exercise was all about.

By: BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK

BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:56:25 +0000

She’s Amish?

By: Clita del Toro

Clita del Toro — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:05 +0000

….almost as exciting as Jane Rhodes’ Salome~! LOLOLOL

By: Clita del Toro

Clita del Toro — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:44:34 +0000

I saw Sylvia’s Ass in Tosca at the Met.
It was a big N_O_T_H_I_N_G.

By: jatm2063

jatm2063 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:16:36 +0000

Honey, it’s RED. Something along the lines of what we see Anne Hathaway in these days at awards shows, except its RED. RED. RED. RED.

And I am dripping in diamonds.

And yet, it’s easy to get out of, so I can quickly strip for Dean…..

By: peter

peter — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:06:29 +0000

Does anyone remember Sass’s Tosca at the Met in 1975? It wasn’t broadcast. That was the same year that Magda Olivero and Galina Vishnevskaya sang the role there as well. Oh, the good old days.

By: manou

manou — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:59:46 +0000

jatm2063 – congratulations, but please describe your frock and jewellery.

By: jatm2063

jatm2063 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:56:21 +0000

GASP! (hands rising to cheeks, teary eyed, JATM2063 calmly walks to the podium).

“My goodness, what a surprise! Well first, I would like to thank all the judges for choosing little me, from such a wide ranging and talented group of entrants. We mustn’t forget rysankekfreak, baritenor, CRUZSF, and of course, my dear, very dearest, old, OLD, OOOOLLLLDDDD friend Betsy Ann Bobolink. Kissy Kissy!”

(waves graciously to the crowd, and departs gracefully stage left, where Dean Cain or a reasonable fascimile thereof is waiting to sweep him up into his arms and carry him off to a far off island).

Now I really will have to watch and/or listen to everything she ever did that is currently available. I will become the EXPERT on Sylvia Sass.

By: BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK

BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:53:24 +0000

Oh Snuggle-tootums, you won ! YOU WON ! !