She aches just like a woman, but she breaks just like a little girl
“’Voice’ is a feminine noun is Spanish, and therefore, must be treated with love and attention, like a woman. This is where the secret lies.” [PanArmenian.net]
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Isabel Bayrakdarian.
Hasmik Papian.
Thanks, Manou – it was actually a rhetorical question since my mind had gone blank on the names.
Rodion Pogossov is half-Armenian and even studied with Lisitsian a couple of times.
Also, Maria Guleghina is half Armenian.
The half that sings?
manou! Every time I think you’ve gone too far, you go even further. Thank you.
She sings??????
Having become used to the obiquus Domingone all over the planet, receiving honors on top of top fees in absurd concerts, what really made me wonder were the other Armeninan culture news on that webpage. Has anybody else noticed?
Armenia seems to have a serious issue with self-esteem.
Really? Issues with self-esteem? You’ve got to be kidding! Try ANY of the former communist satellites of Russia (the farther east you look, the worse it gets): these are not issues with self-esteem, these are MASSIVE identity crises, coming on top of an economic collapse!
Maybe they’re hoping to lure Domingo as General Director of the national opera company…
Hasn’t that country suffered enough?
But think! They could get their own Ring cycle!
I rest my case.
Just for the fun of it, in Greek voice is feminine (phoni), whereas the vagina is masculine (kolpos). They are not similar at all. The miracle of the vocal cords is consitency-anatomically and physiologically. Vagina is more capricious. Trust me, I have seen them both as a professinal!
Vagina is a masculine nown in modern Greek? Hmmmmm.
I can manage a little ancient Greek, but don’t know the equivalent.
Hmmmmm.
…….and in French the vagina is masculine too: le vagin, or more vulgar, le con. Go figure.
I am not a professional, but I have seen and touched them both! and speaking of…Daniel DeNiese just sang the worst note of her career in Cosi tonight.
“Danielle DeNiese ["opera's IT girl, as we learned earlier] just sang the worst note of her career in Cosi tonight.”
………
“There will be days and days and days like this…’
-PLENTY
Yes I was there, too. She tried to interpolate a high C but it wasn’t very successful to say the least.
In Australia part of our cultural cringe is to tear down idols or anyone who succeeds. We call it, “the tall poppy syndrome”. I have long held the view that this “delightful trait” is not unique to Australia- and for proof of that one only has to look at the remarks about Sr Domingo in here. It is certainly “alive and well”.
To belittle the man by suggesting its all about the money is ridiculous. If ever there is a man who has so completely served his art with obvious dedication and enjoyment, it is he- and I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks that he has deserved the right to do anything he wants..for one thing is certain- he will leave an enormous gap when he goes.
Yes he will leave an enormous gap – a gap that will be filled by another tenor. Get off the fuckin’ stage already!
Oh I am sorry – a gap to be filled by another baritone.
Must be cold over there now NYCOQ – those ol balls of yours are obviously getting frozen up
“tall poppy syndrome” is a useful phrase to curb any criticism of celebrities who, of course, must always be good because they are successful, rich and famous. And Maria Callas sang fabulously at her 1973 concerts, and those now released “unreleased” recordings – which she had the wisdom to withhold – serve her memory just brilliantly. I think not. Domingo has had a great, great career, but he’s no plaster saint. It will be sad if his last gasps tarnish his otherwise lustrous achievements. It’s not all about money – but his business interests (properties in every major city where opera is performed which he rents out to his colleagues) suggest that money is an important factor. He was seriously pissed off with Decca when he accepted a flat-rate fee for the first Three Tenors album while Pav got royalties. Domingo made thousands, Pav made millions. I don’t quite see how he will leave a gap when he goes. He left a gap when he stopped singing Otello. Simon Boccanegra will survive without him. Maybe The First Emperor, Rasputin, and Il postino won’t.
Regina, you diminish your own argument and look plain silly when you suggest that owning properities and renting them out to his colleagues is somehow…..whatever! If he held properties and didn’t rent them out he would be a complete fool and wouldn’t you be pissed off if you charged a flat fee for a concert to later find out your colleagues were on a percentage? If those reasons diminish his greatness- and the raft of excellent recordings too great in number to mention, then nothing will pursuade you..and that’s ok, your priviledge. Some of us, however, will hold a contrary view because as a leading artist, few in operatic history will ever equal his output, overall quality and dedication to his art. In those terms it is almost impossible to find any artist who has done more for music than Placido- and neither you nor anyone can ever take that away from him. Fact dear Regina..plain fact.
Ps: sorry about the mispell “privilege” …Harry will call me a “superqueen” now.
La Cieca:
I know you know your Broadway like noone else. What do you think of Lea Michele’s Glee version of “Don’t Rain On My Parade?” I am NOT a Broadway buff, but I am totally hooked on that performance.
Is there something wrong with me?
I don’t know if there’s anything wrong with you, but something has gone wrong with your usual impeccable taste and discernment. Lea Michele is a talented little singing actress, but the vast difference between the auto-tune enhanced vocal on her Don’t Rain On My Parade and the screechy problematic live one from last year’s Tony’s should tell us everything we need to know about where her rendition of the song stands in comparison to La Streisand’s many flawless renderings over the year.
Let me know when Michele puts together anything as thrilling as this Funny Girl medley (which includes a scintillating mini Don’t Rain On My Parade)
P.S. Barbra was only 22 when she did this.
O.N. you are such an astute young man. The auto-tuning in Glee is BEYOND unbelieveable. Why even bother to make a show about singers and cast people that really can’t sing? I am officially OVER that show and Ms. Lea Michele is one of the main reasons. Oh and let’s not forget the non-singing Asian guy who dances like a 21st century Ray Bolger.
Yeah I gave up on Glee this season as well. Especially when my favorite youtube vids were being invaded by Glee fans claiming some auto-tuned tween had “sang this better.” Unable to reach through the screen and slap some sense into them I just realized “its not for me.” Though the Asian guy is *hot!*
Don’t let the fans’ overzealous behaviour turn you off. Actually, I’ve found that the show has been really good the last several weeks. They took the whole “it gets better” thing and ran with it. The results made for some really good television — not to mention very inspirational stuff for gay teens.
Obviously, Leah Michelle is only a pretender when she’s compared to Babs but she’s still good, and like Luvt, I really like her rendition.
Oh yeah that wacky gay story line where the only person that wants to kiss the gay character is a self-hating closeted football player that threatened to kill the gay character after kissing him. I don’t know in what warped gay fantasy where that constitutes a “good” story line, but copping out to sending the gay character to an expensive boys school with a zero-tolerance policy for students who attack other students makes everything better. Reality check it only gets better if your parents can afford to protect you? What the hell?
God, forgot how good she is.
This is fabulous. I especially enjoyed hearing “My Man”. In the film, she does the whispering-through-tears bit and most of the song gets lost. But here, she SINGS it.
I didn’t know about the auto-tuning. Not sure what it is even. I actually don’t care for the clip above, but there is some Streisand that I like. She was awesome in “What’s Up, Doc?” Her “You’re the Tops” is a wowzer. As is her ability to channel Bugs B. throughout the movie.
I still love the show – it’s crazy, silly, uneven, and so much better than the reality, crime drama dreck on TV. That’s why I don’t watch TV unless it’s sports. DVDs only.
Still, Joss Whedon loves it enough to have directed an episode. And as poor as the singing was, “Once More with Feeling” was brilliant as a musical and plot device. ALso I had never heard Chenoweth or Menzel sing before Glee so there’s something!
I guess I will never make it into Broadway heaven.
Someone gave me a subscription to Details.
Matthew Morrison is on the current cover. Nice abs.
I don’t watch TV, don’t own one.
So I went on youtube to see/hear what the fuss was all about.
Which is how I stumbled across Lea Michele’s rendition of “Don’t Rain On My Parade” at the Tony awards — which I had to close hurriedly after less than a minute.
So in answer to your question: um, I think so.
Matthew Morrison got a few more tries till I could find something that actually required him to sing.
“Younger Than Springtime” in South Pacific: “…angel and lover, heaven and earth am *I WITH YOU*”…yelled.
Um, no.
Thus ended my 5-minute Glee experience.
I’ll leave it to the rest of you to enjoy.
The abs suffice for me.
Speaking of larynges and all….
… and just possibly Tigran Martirossian. I would like to be called Tigran.
Don’t forget the lovely Karine Babajanyan:
http://www.karine-babajanyan.com/
she wishes she could make a sound like they did. preening and fluttering lashes does not “acting” with the voice make.
gegam grigorian.