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Fais pâlir les étoiles!

by | 9:58 am | Aug 16, 2010

costello_thumbLa Cieca just heard that Stephen Costello goes on tonight (i.e., in just a few hours) in Roméo et Juliette at the Salzburg Festival opposite Anna Netrebko. He’s jumping in for Piotr Beczala, who, if you ask Norman Lebrecht, is probably malingering with a South Seas cutie.

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  • Constantine A. Papas says:

    Netrebko devours her Romeos like no other Juliet! She had four in New York, I think, and now two in Salzburg. BTW, how is she doing? Someone wrote that her voice sounded the best ever.

    on August 16, 2010 at 9:15 PM
    • fartnose mcgoo says:

      Are you talking about the Gounod one? I was talking about the Capuleti one. I’m sure she’d be good as Juliette in Gounod’s telling.

      on August 16, 2010 at 9:46 PM
  • Sanford says:

    One of my favorite complete recordings of all time is Capuletti with Larmore and Hong. OMGawd! AMazing singing and conducting. Frankly, if push came to shove, I’d rather hear Renee in Capuletti than Trebs in Anna Bolena. But I don’t think either singer is right for those operas.

    on August 16, 2010 at 10:17 PM
  • manou says:

    Just for the heck of it, and for those who have not seen it and have a couple of hours to spare :

    http://www.classicaltv.com/v1115/opera/julia-migenes-diva-on-the-verge

    Julia Migenes a few years ago in her one-woman show.

    on August 17, 2010 at 4:35 AM
  • Buster says:

    The bookclub thread seems to be closed. On James McCourt:

    Great book. Excellent choice for this site too -- since most of what we know about Mawrdew Czgowchwz we only know through comments by other people -- fans, in particular.

    There are about four pages in the book where the diva herself speaks, but those pages (two dialogues between her and the curiously faceless Jacob Beltane) read more like a script for an unrealized movie than a “real” dialogue. How real is that Beltane guy, anyhow?

    I am certainly planning to read more of his work. I also loved the Koestenbaum introduction. The style of the book reminded me more of Answered Prayers than of Firbank, by the way. Loved it to bits.

    on August 17, 2010 at 5:12 AM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor says:

    I’m glad this host is not broadcasting in the USA:

    on August 17, 2010 at 9:20 AM
  • LittleMasterMiles says:

    OT, especially since he didn’t even have to cancel, but it’s another sign of heterosexuality run amok in the music world:

    http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/conductor-in-mostly-mozart-festival-is-held-for-nonpayment-of-child-support/

    on August 17, 2010 at 10:01 AM
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