Greasy poll
Next time you feel like rolling your eyes at one of La Cieca’s informal for-entertainment-only polls, put then back in your head and gaze on this silliness.
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Ack! Waaaay too much Mozart and Purcell is #1? Brits! (still bitter that his acting alum Jon Michael Hill lost the Tony to a BRIT!)
You can never have too much Mozart. Are you kidding me? Mozart wrote some of the most difficult music ever. When you hear a Mozart aria done well, it is like the sun after a rainy afternoon.
Pleasantly surprised not to see Nessun dorma on the list.
well..the costume might be “really terrifying”..( as per Monty’s comment on another thread…
BUT
..the Aria is,..BEAUTIFUL…!!
( WHO SAID OUR BRITISH COUSINS DON’T HAVE GOOD TASTE??)
Isn’t that video French, though?
I think that outfit was inspired by this:
Duh! (in response to the poll)
Love this video, French or not.
THIS is why the Brits heart that aria so much…
And look closely, who can u spot in the background of this outstanding performance…!!!!
Why is Pavarotti dressed up like Mistress Quickly?
That was my first reaction: luckily, no Nessun dorma. And then I was shockpleased to see the Zaide aria there.
I’m anxiously awaiting 5 or 6 comments by our good Vicar.
That poll was plugged ad nauseam on BBC Radio 3. It was really stoopid for a supposedly serious station.
And I wonder how many of the voters for Rusalka and Die tote Stadt know anything else from the works in question.
It’s a shame Nessun dorma has become so over-exposed. It is still a miraculous aria, especially when heard in context. I love the way the preceding harmonic tension resolved into the aria’s first line, and the way the climax leads directly into the interaction with Ping, Pang and Pong.
Very happy to see no Carmen on the list.
No Verdi is a bit more surprising, but he thrives more on the scene-level anyway.
Not even La donna e mobile? Or the Traviata brindisi?
And no Pagliacci?
I also have this feeling that many stuffier Radio 3 listeners — the kind who get all excited about mimsy English music — probably disapprove of Verdi. Too red-blooded.
Monty:
Be greatful for the Veddy stuffy Auntie Beeb…and , even fer those stuffy listeners..or..ya might find yourself having to deal with the sorry swamp of what passes for “Classical” radio, in the former Colony….
I Thank gawd fer the ‘net… so we get to hear BBC3..!
haha @ “mimsy English music” – spot on, Monty!
Has no one caught on? It’s so simple. All across Britain peers and sub-peers and peer look-alikes are dressing in milkmaid’s outfits, jsut so they can snicker when the unctuous baritones of BBC say, “When I am laid . . .”
… and exclaim: “Thy hand, Belinda!”
Wow! Betsy – can we watch a ‘Carry On’ movie together.
Respectable enough list, surely? The only quibble is that Wagner may well be turning in his grave at having the Liebestod referred to as an aria.
No Handel? In England? Pshaw!
Osipova got mugged crossing Amsterdam on her way home from the Met last night.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/abt-ballerina-is-attacked/?ref=arts
There’s a rumor afoot that this was the work of an enraged balletomane who claims that Osip[ova is turned-in – and worse – dances turned-in.
Apparently respectable turned-in ballerinas are supposed to fake turn-out
particularly when they start and finish a combination.
Is turned out sorta like pimped out?
Not luvballet, then.
It’s hard to take any poll about fave arias seriously when Korngold makes the list but not Sempre Libera, O Patria Mia, Celeste Aida.
And Purcell but no Arne? Puhleez!
Could be the track list of Dame Katherine’s new album?