Fleming, flack finished!
“After a 15-year collaboration that catapulted Renée Fleming from just another plush-voiced soprano to a glamorous, genre-crossing household name, the singer is parting ways with legendary publicist Mary Lou Falcone.” [New York Observer]
Hannelore Bode is not just one of opera’s most celebrated sopranos, but perhaps its most convincing actress. A consummate artist, her one and only role when she stands in the spotlight is to breathe so much life into the opera’s main character that audiences lose themselves in her unforgettable performances. That is the passion of Hannelore Bode.
what brought all this on, nerva? is (or was) Hannelore a client(ess) of mary lou too? Lost track of Hannelore… last time I saw Hannelore was as Elsa at Bayreuth 1971!
Reminds me of when Renay dumped Merle after he slaved to put her on the map.
Oh well… reo mondo!
Huh?
Who is Merle? What did he do to put her on the map?
Maybe Renaaay’s farewell to Mary Lou was like the Kaiserin’s the Amme: “Du taugst nicht zu mir” … and Mary Lou floated down the West River in her little boat, screaming.
Off topic:
For some reason, I am seeing in a CafePress ad at the left-hand margin of this page the last the last item that I looked at in a CafePress store.
The item in question is a pair of pink women’s underpants emblazoned with the cover of the novel, THE WELL OF LONELINESS.
I’m a little disturbed that they’ve followed me here.
That’s odd. I’ve got ads for an electric car and London hotels.
When I was shopping on-line for bathroom fixtures I kept getting ads for . . . well, bathroom fixtures.
Google is your friend! Just part of the Faustian bargain.
I get lots of ads for men’s underwear.
At least they are not for a pair of pink women’s underpants emblazoned with the cover of the novel, THE WELL OF LONELINESS…
There’s more to this story, and I feel we need to hear it…
Okay – just bought cashmere scarves and I am now plagued with Charles Tyrwhitt adverts….Spooky!
I had actually noticed that adverts would follow me around on the web depending on where I had been browsing before – I guess this is smart (?) targeting by cookies.
Un oeil noir nous regarde…
It’s utterly reactive isn’t it – I took a KLM flight last weekend, and now all I get are KLM adverts.
I get Domino’s Pizza and renter’s insurance, so I am assuming my cookies are all from 1986.
Mmmm. Domino’s Pizza. I wish I got ads for that.
All I get is Google Chrome, so the internet may be trying to tell me that I spend too much time on it.
ArmJac, Domino’s Pizza was founded by , and still pours money into the coffers of, one of the USA’s most dreadful tycoons, a right wing Catholic (Tom Monaghan) who pours money into antigay and anti-abortion causes– take it, Wikipedia:
“His 1987 Vatican visit moved him so much he returned to the United States committed to promoting the Catholic faith. He soon established Ave Maria Radio,[12] the Ave Maria List[13] pro-life political action committee, and the Thomas More Law Center,[14] a public interest law firm dedicated to promoting social conservative issues such as opposition to abortion, same sex marriage, and secularism.”
Do not EVER put money in this man’s hands by buying one of his (pretty bad) pizzas.
Nerva, fortunately for those of us in the UK and Ireland, the master franchise for Domino’s UK/IRL was sold several years ago, so those of us who occasionally fancy a dirty pizza can do so without enriching Monaghan and co in any way.
I would still look into the ownership of the UK/ Eire franchise! Bet there’s some Opus Dei represntation somewhere…
Better yet, come to NYC to hear a pointlessly imported Britsh singer
and have a pizza at the Source, John’s.
Cheers!
Ha!
On my previous visits to NY (haven’t heard an unnecessary Brit yet, although there have been a couple of Russians I could have done without) it’s been Lombardi’s all the way. I dream of their pizzas.
Well, i’m persecuted by hamburger ads, although i really never bought hamburgers online (nor otherwise, actually)…
Domingo’s Pizza.
I could play Merle *tomorrow*- it’s a question of color, tessitura and re-reading the James masterpiece.
The novel is set in Britain and Italy, where I often would triumph as Carmen and Amneris before returning home to face… Marcellina!
…except the Portrait of a Lady character is a Madame Merle, and the QPF Merle seems to be masculine – but nowadays, who can tell?
What matter? I sang my peerless Orlofsky at all the great houses, and recorded it at the personal request of Karajan.
Renee and others don’t get paid for appearing in the HD intermissions, do they?
Why would they not be paid?
I think they don’t. I remember a news article about HD presentations a 1-2 years ago. It said that the hosts don’t get paid maybe that has changed.
Whether they get paid or not, the hosting stints raise their name-and-face recognition with the broader opera-going public, and that’s important free publicity.