parterre box

20 comments

• Lindoro Almaviva says:

  I could not take much of that, Sandi Patti should be insulted, but I doubt she will.

  By the way, for those interested. ARTE will be broadcasting (and webcasting) a Don Giovanni from Aix-en-Provence today at 9:30 PM in France, (3:30 EST, 12:30 PST) Cast includes:

  * Don Gionanni: Bo Skovhus
  * Leporello: Kyle Ketelsen
  * Masetto: David Bizic
  * Don Ottavio: Colin Balzer
  * Donna Anna: Marlis Petersen
  * Donna Elvira: Kristine Opolais
  * Zerlina: Kerstin Avemo
  * Commendatore: Anatoli Kotscherga

  Check here at the correct time in your time zone:
  http://www.arte.tv/fr/70.html

  The production will eventually travel to Canada and several countries in Europe, but no guarantees of another telecast.

  on July 5, 2010 at 1:21 PM
  • bassoprofundo says:

    I think you’ve posted this on every possible opera related site imaginable….

    on July 5, 2010 at 1:24 PM
    • Lindoro Almaviva says:

      and your complaint is….

      Not everyone here is a member or every opera group, I know that for a fact, so what is your complaint. Could be worse, it could pass and you could hear about it weeks after is was dome and you could have missed the oportunity to check it out and see a pro doing roles that eventually you will want to sing.

      So you are very welcomed for noticing my thoroughness

      on July 5, 2010 at 1:41 PM
      • SF Guy says:

        This is the only opera site I check on a regular basis, and I’m sure there are quite a few others like me. Nothing wrong with thoroughness!

        on July 5, 2010 at 1:56 PM
      • Il faut parterre says:

        Lindoro Almaviva…you really CAN’T please everybody, can you?
        I occasionally visit other opera sites, but La Cieca’s Cavern is the only one I check every day, usually more than once.
        So, THANK YOU for the info! It’s useful and deserves to be widely disseminated (inseminated?).
        If it wasn’t for your post here, I would have missed the boat.

        on July 5, 2010 at 2:11 PM
      • Donna Carlo says:

        May I add my hearty appreciation too? Like so many others here, Parterre is my only “daily.” I would have missed this treat entirely if not for your thoroughness.

        Doesn’t that last word look straight out of Chaucer? “Ye mooste be tha Prince o Thrughnesse.”

        Thank you so much, Prince.

        on July 5, 2010 at 2:42 PM
      • ipomoea says:

        Thank you, and please keep it up. A true service to a small sliver of humanity.

        on July 5, 2010 at 8:54 PM
• atalaya says:

  I appreciate it. Thx for posting.

  on July 5, 2010 at 1:56 PM
• Olivero is my Drug of Choice says:

  I ADORE Sandi Patti. She’s a guilty pleasure of mine. She sings with gusto and unparalleled commitment.

  on July 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM
  • NYCOQ says:

    Waaaaay back in high school when I belonged to several choirs (yes, one of them was a praise/gospel choir) I used to worship Sandy Patti. Fast forward 25 years later and JEESUS she just reeks! That was awful, but in a country where Palin could possibly win in 2012 I guess there’s no accounting for tastes

    on July 6, 2010 at 4:18 AM
• judycadanna says:

  I know a chorusmaster who would say during rehearsals that at certain points, he wanted a “big fat Baptist Sandi Patti vibrato”.
  You may draw your own conclusions about which words in that phrase were the modifiers and which were the modified.

  on July 5, 2010 at 2:46 PM
• Lindoro Almaviva says:

  My in-laws (and the BF) were at one point members of the church where Sandy Patty worships in Anderson, IN. We actually worshiped with her one Christmas and she and her husband (a gay marriage if I have ever seen one) sang. Nice people.

  When my sister-in law was to be married I suggested that the location of the wedding read: St. Sandy Patty’s in Anderson IN. She refused, but the name stuck with me. When I am invited to church there I ask if we are going to St. Sandy Patty’s and everyone knows what am I referring to.

  on July 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM
• Vox says:

  Sandy Patti sounds like something I might find in a cat litter box.

  on July 5, 2010 at 5:05 PM
• calaf47 says:

  Except Sandi Patti would not have been FLAT on the final upper note. Poor Renee…this is very sad.

  on July 5, 2010 at 5:37 PM
  • operadunce says:

    Try this calaf47 and you won’t feel sad. http://www.medici.tv/#/performance/769/

    on July 5, 2010 at 6:39 PM
    • calaf47 says:

      After that….I feel WORSE!!!!!

      on July 5, 2010 at 9:07 PM
    • Lindoro Almaviva says:

      for those interested, I just read in that website that there will be a free webcasting of an all Mahler recital with Thomas Hampson and Wolfram Rieger on July 7th at 1 PM GMT (whatever that is if you timezone)

      on July 5, 2010 at 9:22 PM
• La Cieca says:

  on July 5, 2010 at 8:43 PM
  • louannd says:

    This made my day!

    on July 5, 2010 at 11:41 PM
    • LogeLizard says:

      Ahh, my first Musetta!

      on July 6, 2010 at 2:11 PM