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Bitter to the sweet

damrau_fille_thumbLa Cieca just heard that Diana Damrau has canceled her engagement in Hamlet with the Washington National Opera. Heading the “star-studded” cast for this production will now be Liam Bonner / Michael Chioldi, TBA, Samuel Ramey, Elizabeth Bishop and John Tessier.

32 comments

  • Nerva Nelli says:

    wladek write so amusing on bel canto subject!

    most so stupid listeners like bellini garbage when wladek know objectively: better is music of giants telemann and bruckner.

  • wladek says:

    #31-What is your take on bel canto ? so many
    misinformed opinions of the art .
    No one called listners stupid except
    you-Bellini music is not garbage -it is
    just some pointless melodies that have
    little bearing on the drama and which
    he attached anywhere to anything and
    gave some good singers a chance to
    show off their abilities while the
    drama comes to a complete stop.
    Telemann and Bruckner don’t
    figure in this sort of writing. The
    real master of all this is Mozart
    the rest line up in whatever order
    one feels .