Stuffed avvocato
UPDATE: The Royal Opera has apologized to Intermezzo!
Sister blog Intermezzo has run up against one of those occasional but annoying bumps in the information superhighway, the sad sort of creature known as the opera house’s “head of business and legal affairs,” whose days and nights are spent firing off officious, legalistic and (in this case) misspelled emails trying to hinder the spread of information. And we all know how vain an endeavor that is, don’t we? Anyway, La Cieca is confident the cher public will offer ‘Mezzo their support during her moment of crise.
i can’t open their twitter page for some reason. Does anyone else have the same problem?
The people making decisions like this (legal threats to bloggers) do not understand how bloggers are really taking over in getting news to people, and it is not wise to threaten the bloggers, b/c the “people” are pro-bloggers. If a blog or site is popular among opera lovers it is really dumb to kick that site, if you are an opera house.
“Royal Opera Hose” indeed.
I’m sure if the ROH had denied this and put it down to a spam email, people would have believed them. Who would contend that they would employ at that level of appointment someone who can’t spell, write coherently and get the name of his employer correct?
The Avory email looks as if he was drunk when he wrote it.
Looks like Mr. Tommasini has only now caught on to what La Cieca reported weeks ago…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/arts/music/12tommasini.html?hp
Is that picture the Entrance into Valhalla? So we get the same walking up and down the set that quickly got so mind-numbing in LA DAMNATION DE FAUST?
Hmm…
If the Royal Opera wanted to sue a blogger, they should have sued Opera Chiclet who takes the official photographs from opera companies and then posts them on her site with an opera chic logo graffitoed on them as if the photos were her property. If that’s not theft, it’s certainly very bad etiquette.