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Operspike, Angie can be the queen of tacky. She always seems to wear that supergloss pink lipstick, you could guide a plane down onto a landing strip guided by the glare off her lips.
OT: Chat DZ? Can anyone open it?
Listening to ZAUBERFLOTE and am realizing that those little brats really piss me off. Treble-voiced Benedict Arnolds is what they are. Off with their heads. Lordy, if I’m this upset now, what am I going to be like when we get to Papagena?
jatm @ 26 If you are correct, do you really think that Fleming would be tweeting about filming a video if the Met hadn’t given permission for her to do so? I think it’s fairly common to grant exceptions to such clauses between performances, especially for a star artist. We all know how Domingo runs around between performances, and never a word from a theater about how he’s breaking a contract.
Betsy, your recent admission (“drop a house on you”) made me rethink my stance on Zauberflote: officially, I like it as well as the others. But really, unless I’m seeing the staged performance, I don’t care for it as a whole. Too much talking, not enough music and singing.
True about Domingo, but hey, he doesn’t sing nearly as often as he once did, so it probably isn’t such a problem.
However, it seems like they would want RF to be fully rested for her next performance (when maybe she could silence the naysayers, wouldn’t that be a kick?).
Who knows which deal was inked first, the Armida or the crossover CD? La Cieca? Hmmmmm?
Re the postings of the vanished camellia gal….
I believe that this get up is, without question, the worst of the many, many bad looks she has sported over the years.
Now, sit down and take a deep breath….hard to fathom but for that concert she wore three different gowns expressly designed for her by three noted Romanian designers.
I know, I know. Take a deep breath.
The other two are not as bad tho at least one features a similar amount of peekaboo.
Musically it is, as so often the case, a rythmic disaster. Notice how, even with the sheet music right under her nose, she cannot keep time and almost train wrecks on the word castagnets. I think maybe at least half the phrases are off musically. And it is not the conductor’s fault, it is hers.
A conductor I knew used to joke about certain divas, it is not that they can’t count, it is just that they can only count to the number one, as in “I am number one”.
Amateurish in every sense, clearly!
More whistling tonight after Zauberflote. Whistling seems to be taking the place of “My goodness, that was something, wasn’t it, Esther.” Do you think it’s the new, younger generation we’ve been courting/dreading?
Why is there so much hostility against Fleming? Obviously every singer is in total stress at opening night, having had rehearsal time, orchestra rehearsals, dress rehearsals etc.
I think there is hardly an artists (otherwise you wouldn’t call him like that) who doesn’t develope roles ALL THE TIME.
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Okay, so I am reading the posts and what planet do you people live on? Of course, she has a jam packed schedule and has to shoot a video while here in NYC performing at the Met. What I admire about her and performers like her is that they can keep up these grueling schedules and not crack-up. Geesh people – I am not a major fan of Renee, but tweeting is de rigeur these days for any media savvy artists and not a one of her detractors here could keep her schedule and still perform at the level that she does. Oh and by the way…her tweeting tactic worked. Who are we all talking about? Her, of course. I have said this over and over again – she is a smart woman no matter what we think of her as a performer.