Chat is jumpin’ and the cotton is high
Your doyenne is occupied this afternoon getting Our Own JJ tweezed, powdered and cinched for his sojourn to Caramoor, and that’s a full-time job, my dears, because you know those venues that admit natural light can be most unkind to vain middle-aged queens. As such, La Cieca will leave you to your own devices for this week’s chat, which is probably for the best anyway, since according to Operacast at least it’s not exactly Sternstunde central. Naturally, La Casa della Cieca will welcome them of you as choose to attend.
Are you kidding? On Radio Klasika of Lithuania you can hear Faust with the stellar cast of ‘B. Terfelas, A. Georgiu, R. Alanja, S. Kinlysaidas’.
That’s a cast The Vicarias of Weikfjeldas would claspas to his bosomias.
Sorry, group, I fell down on the job this week. Besides — I knew my choice (Cavalli’s Artemisia) didn’t stand a chance.
Absolutely right dear Bets – I saw La Calisto last year and once every other year is enough Cavalli for me (or “aspetta cavallo che l’erba cresce“).
Not to cavil, but I love Cavalli, particularly that wonderful South American opera semi-seria Cavalli’s Rio Rusticana.
Wild horses would not drag me to this.
It’s perfect for the equinox.
Lets not start this or we shall appaloosa the plot.
Do you mean “campa cavallo che l’erba cresce” (“make hay while the sun shines”)?
You can say either campa or aspetta, but I always thought it meant “you can wait for a very long time and it might not happen” – as if the horse had to wait for the herb to grow before he could eat.
Anyway – that’s what my mother used to say!
I remember once doing a record deal in a shop. I said to the dealer…throw in that Cavalli turkey ( a then new 3 record box set) and “its’ a deal”! He agreed. Today, it is still on my shelves….un-played!
Does anyone have any idea how cases and declensions work in Lithuanian? Why do Terfel and Kinlysaid’s (sic) surnames take the ‘as’ ending and Bob’s and Ange’s don’t? Is it something to do with having vowels at the end?
I think in this case, one should Lett well enough alone.
I am not speaking with any real authority but I have a vague notion “-as” is just a common name ending in Lithuanian. For one thing, in a listing like this one there’s no reason I can think of the names would be in any case other than nominative…
I’m excited, my tickets for my weekend at the Met for next season arrived in the mail today:
4/22:Prima of Walkure
4/23: Capriccio Matinee(Fleming)
4/23: Trovatore(Rads, Zajik, Hvorostovsky
Should be an interesting weekend(and I get to see my new BoyFriend, Jonas Kaufmann, debut as Siegmund!)
jonas is mine!
I’ll scratch your eyes out!
Whatever for?…..To hear him sing? That is easy, just ‘press the Play Button’. He’s ‘available’.
Oh Harry, dear sweet innocent Harry, how I wish you had someone, just anyone, to press your “play button.”
Radio today at 1:30 EDT — Cant decide between Die Passagierin from Bregenz (I like modern opera) http://www.bregenzerfestspiele.com/en/mainmenu/programme/opera-festspielhaus/the-passenger or Dr. Who at the BBC Proms.
No problem. The Doctor Who Prom will be available for the next 7 days via the Listen Again feature. Enjoy Die Passagierin.
Recording The Beggar’s Opera from Maazel’s Castleton Festival myself.
If anyone is interested, most of today’s broadcasts will be available at The House of Bobolink
That Weinberg opera is fantastic. And the Bregenz production is coming to New York in English (after the ENO gets it).
excellent! is it going to be at the Lincoln Center Festival or NYCO or BAM or something?
Yes.
very much enjoyed the Weinberg. . .found a site with pictures of the production that looks fascinating http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2010-07/18/c_13402710.htm Would love to know when it is being performed in New York?
I suppose the best choice today is Forza with Price, Corelli and Merrill. It’s from 1968 and it’s on Sirius at 3pm ET. I guess that’s a better cast than could be assembled today.
Might I say that The House Of Bobolink produces some mighty fine work. So far today, I’ve listened to part of Ermione (awesome), most of Traviata from Mexico City ’61 with Moffo and Di Stefano, and have now switched to Trovatore with Dame Gwyneth. Now, if only Betsy Ann would join the 21st Century and get on Facebook…
I feel like such a parterre novice (even though i’ve been around for a while), but what/where is the house of bobolink…???
See the screen name at 3.1.1? That would be the lovely and vivacious Betsy Ann Bobolink.
lol i know who she is (how could one not!), but i’m confused by the treasure trove of recordings you refer to…..
Drive north out of Broadus on US 14. You won;t do much curving for about 162 miles. Turn left where Ma and Pa Swenson had their homestead that burned down. Watch the ruits. Sixteen miles in, ye’ll come to a clump of bushes. Stop and wait there until the camera gets good fix on ye. Somebody’ll be down to meet you.
Or go to ditzbobble@gmail.com
Scifi, she records practically everything listed in Operacast. No secret. I could do it myself, but I use freeware (Freecorder) and can’t set a timer, so I have to be here to start and end the recording.
“Our Own JJ tweezed, powdered and cinched for his sojourn”
What, you didn’t wax?
He forgot to mention the botox and restylane too.