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121 comments

• florezrocks says:

  James Morris as Wotan?

  on March 10, 2011 at 8:44 AM
  • Pelleas says:

    At this point I’d prefer him as the new director of Spider Man.

    on March 10, 2011 at 9:13 AM
• Pelleas says:

  Is it possible for Julie Taymor to be tingling about ANYTHING this week?

  on March 10, 2011 at 8:54 AM
  • semira mide says:

    You beat me to it!
    But I have the answer – she’s been asked to redo the spiders in Armida for the Met!

    on March 10, 2011 at 8:58 AM
  • Unfaithful Zerbinetta says:

    Mary Zimmerman helping out Julie Taymor? Zimmerman does have a MacArthur “genius” grant. My suspicion is that no good can come of this.

    on March 10, 2011 at 9:05 AM
    • Pelleas says:

      Was Zimmerman disgraced recently?

      I’m having a hard time bringing to mind too many recently disgraced geniuses (or even “geniuses,” to tell the truth).

      on March 10, 2011 at 9:12 AM
      • Unfaithful Zerbinetta says:

        True, I forgot Taymor had a MacArthur of her own. But Taymor and the Ring? DO NOT WANT.

        on March 10, 2011 at 9:29 AM
• Olivero is my Drug of Choice says:

  The “One Eyed King” suggests Wotan.
  Has Morris been called in to Coach Terfel?

  on March 10, 2011 at 9:05 AM
  • florezrocks says:

    that’s what I was thinking

    on March 10, 2011 at 9:11 AM
    • Pelleas says:

      The “disgraced” part still doesn’t work for me.

      on March 10, 2011 at 9:13 AM
      • Olivero is my Drug of Choice says:

        Have you heard James Morris sing lately?

        on March 10, 2011 at 10:20 AM
        • phoenix says:

          Morris was quite good as Frere Laurent the other night… and I usually don’t like him. I wouldn’t mind giving him another listen as Wotan.

          on March 10, 2011 at 11:37 AM
• grimoaldo says:

  John Galliano branches out into a new career as a costume designer and collaborates with David Hockney on a production of Parsifal somewhere?

  on March 10, 2011 at 9:08 AM
  • quoth the maven says:

    Doesn’t Galliano sometimes affect an eye-patch?

    on March 10, 2011 at 9:38 AM
• Jack Jikes says:

  Taymor helping LePage? Disgraced is a strong word and I don’t see how it fits Morris.

  on March 10, 2011 at 9:14 AM
  • quoth the maven says:

    I think when the process of getting firing merits a series of Times features, that’s as close to a thorough “disgrace” as I can imagine. But in that case I’m stumped by “one-eyed.” Yes, a Ring reference, but Taymor has two eyes, and so does Lepage (even if he lacks hair).

    on March 10, 2011 at 9:47 AM
    • armerjacquino says:

      That’s to point to Wotan, as you mention. Plus la cieca always makes some kind of glancing reference to the word ‘blind’ in the title of a blind item (‘In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king’ in this case).

      on March 10, 2011 at 9:53 AM
• Orlando Furioso says:

  “Disgraced” is the tricky part here; the singers who’ve burned their bridges through excessive cancellation (and Morris is assuredly not in that category) aren’t likely to be called “geniuses.” I too would prefer someone who has actually been anointed as a genius with a MacArthur grant, but Julie Taymor is the individual who earned “disgrace” yesterday. So I’m guessing that she’s being asked to help with the Ring staging (and it does include a one-eyed king) somehow.

  I still feel as if “tingling” should have a specific reference here too, and I’m stumped on that part.

  on March 10, 2011 at 9:23 AM
  • Leitbreite says:

    Orlando,

    If indeed the “disgraced genius” in question is Julie Taymor (recently booted from her directorial duties in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), I would hazard that the “tingling” refers to one of Spider-Man’s oft-quoted catchphrases: “My spider-sense (or spidey-sense) is tingling.”
    [img]http://parterre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/SpideySense.jpg[/img]

    on March 10, 2011 at 9:42 AM
    • armerjacquino says:

      Bingo. I’ll buy that.

      on March 10, 2011 at 9:43 AM
    • manou says:

      Aaaaaahhhhh – erudition! We poor Brits (what’s the use of us, hey) were just thinking along the lines of “by the pricking of my thumbs”, but did we have the wrong author!

      on March 10, 2011 at 9:46 AM
      • armerjacquino says:

        Ah, but Spiderman’s British now, hadn’t you heard?

        Well, dual-nationality, anyway.

        on March 10, 2011 at 10:03 AM
        • manou says:

          …not to mention Henry Cavill as Superman.

          on March 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM
        • spiderman says:

          I am SO NOT British

          on March 10, 2011 at 10:26 AM
        • The Vicar of John Wakefield says:

          What an appalling waste of funds when such upstanding British super-heroes as Bovril Man and The Flying Scot could have fueled proper West End fare.

          on March 10, 2011 at 11:33 AM
• armerjacquino says:

  Serves me right for laughing at some of the wilder guesses in the Wozzeck thread. I haven’t the first clue what’s going on here.

  on March 10, 2011 at 9:26 AM
  • Regina delle fate says:

    Heehee – Karma!

    on March 11, 2011 at 7:11 AM
• OpinionatedNeophyte says:

  Charlie Sheen is giving Galiano PR advice.

  on March 10, 2011 at 9:36 AM
• LogeLizard says:

  “Recently discraced genius” can only be Taymor, and “tingling” seems like a clear Spiderman reference. But I think “redemption” refers to an operatic plot-point rather than career status, i.e. Taymor is being asked to stage a DUTCHMAN (which I think she has done before) or PARSIFAL, etc., with a name artist in the lead.

  on March 10, 2011 at 9:49 AM
• WindyCityOperaman says:

  I dreamt the other night that the Met had completely pulled the plug on its Ring cycle. See how reading Parterre has influenced my subconscious?

  on March 10, 2011 at 9:51 AM
  • phoenix says:

    COINCIDENCE! I had a similar dream, but in mine the Met just pulled the Ring off it’s Cycle and put it on the back burner of my kitchen stove!

    on March 10, 2011 at 11:40 AM