Something for the birds
UPDATE: The results are in, and the topic for this afternoon’s chat session will be Maria Stuarda. Please look after the jump for details.
La Cieca (left) invites you to listen to the broadcast beginning at 1:00 pm EDT on the BBCiPlayer or else check the Operacast page for more options.
Mary Stuart: Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Queen Elizabeth: Antonia Cifrone (soprano)
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Bülent Bezdüz (tenor)
Sir William Cecil: David Kempster (baritone)
George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury: Frédéric Bourreau (bass)
Hannah Kennedy: Michelle Walton (soprano)
Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North conducted by Guido Johannes Rumstadt.
The live chat will be, as always, at La Casa della Cieca.
PREVIOUSLY: It was the perhaps aptly named Cleveland Bent (1866-1954) who described the song of the bobolink as “a bubbling delirium of ecstatic music that flows from the gifted throat of the bird like sparkling champagne.” La Cieca could not improve upon that description as it applies to the latest outpouring of the gifted throat of our own drunken songbird, BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK. For it is she (pictured above, just over Tippi Hedren‘s left shoulder) who has nominated the operas for this week’s vote on our Saturday chat.
For more information on casting, times, etc. please see the invaluable Operacast.
Great to see Tippi Hedren featured on this site…how is it that the world was denied her Salome, her Thais, her Manon?
Truthfully, Ms. Hedren visited my acting class a few years ago (she was on campus to discuss wild animal protection) and was an absolute delight. She regaled us with tales of Hitchcock & those Birds. And, she’s still got a great pair of gams.
KUSC is working this week – for anyone who wants to listen to the Götterdämmerung.
I’m Götterdämmerung-inging it right now as a matter of fact!
Very exciting performance. I’m going next Saturday to see it.
Remember Joy Davidson? She’s still alive and kicking: