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Venetian blind

by | 4:05 pm | Nov 30, 2011

Which summer festival, barely an hour north of Manhattan, will offer as its opera performances in the summer of 2012 Rossini’s Ciro in Babilonia (with Ewa Podles, Jessica Pratt and Michael Spyres) and Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi (with Kate Aldrich, Eglise Gutierrez and Leonardo Capalbo)?

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  • Andie Musique says:

    Caramoor. So close I can walk. In fact, I am starting now.

    on November 30, 2011 at 4:11 PM
    • brooklynpunk says:

      I missed Caramoor, last Summer…but no way in HELL , will I make that same mistake this coming season– especially with these casts and works..!!!

      on November 30, 2011 at 4:32 PM
  • Orlando Furioso says:

    Well gosh, which one could this be?

    I really ought to get there some year. I’ve made it to Glyndebourne several times, and this is a whole lot closer.

    on November 30, 2011 at 4:32 PM
  • Ercole Farnese says:

    wow..my dream of a festival, as usual. I may be one of the very few people to have already seen Ciro in Babilonia, over 20 years ago in Savona.

    on November 30, 2011 at 4:59 PM
    • semira mide says:

      Oh my, Ercole. Was that the performance that had Daniella Desai as the lead soprano?

      on November 30, 2011 at 5:32 PM
      • manou says:

        Is Daniela Desai a little known Indian soprano?

        on November 30, 2011 at 5:35 PM
        • semira mide says:

          Oh dear, the “blind typist” gets in trouble again. I of course meant Daniella Dessi.

          on November 30, 2011 at 6:34 PM
          • manou says:

            I knew that – but could not resist a cheap shot. Forgive me.

            on November 30, 2011 at 6:37 PM
          • Cocky Kurwenal says:

            Can anybody confirm whether it was Daniela Dessi who stepped in for Gorchakova in a Proms concert performance of Don Carlo in the 90s with Borodina, Hvorostovsky and Margison? It quite possibly wasn’t her, but I’m struggling to think who else it could have been. I’m probably not the only poster who was there…

            on November 30, 2011 at 6:39 PM
          • manou says:

            According to the Proms archive it was Sylvie Valayre :

            http://tinyurl.com/bwlj3ag

            on November 30, 2011 at 6:50 PM
          • semira mide says:

            It’s ok, Manou, I wouldn’t have been able to resist either!

            on November 30, 2011 at 7:25 PM
      • Ercole Farnese says:

        Yes it was Daniela Dessì, and there was also Ernesto Palacio as the antagonist, and in the title role Caterina Calvi, a young singer who had a true deep contralto voice but also serious pitch problems, and never had a career

        on December 2, 2011 at 9:47 AM
  • m. croche says:

    Glad to see that it’s Caramoor. I still want to dream of a summer Bard festival: “Notker Balbulus and His World”.

    on November 30, 2011 at 5:00 PM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor says:

    The West Point All Male Rossini-Bellini Festival?

    on November 30, 2011 at 5:10 PM
  • Lyric-Tenore says:

    Kate Aldrich, Eglise Gutierrez and Leonardo Capalbo …. I guess I’m going to hear that lol

    on November 30, 2011 at 6:24 PM
  • semira mide says:

    And if you want to hear Ciro again, the same group ( at least some of them) will be performing at a festival barely an hour north of Ancona.

    on November 30, 2011 at 6:36 PM
  • Camille says:

    O gioia!
    So please to know of this and will Camille ever be there!

    Brooklyn punk, if I have to haul my arse on down to Brooklyn and pick you up by the nape of the neck and sponsor you as my inner city child, U R GOING, Guy.

    Yours, C.

    on November 30, 2011 at 8:00 PM
    • brooklynpunk says:

      Dear Camille!

      ..that is the most exciting offer I have received in many many moons…and I’m NOT referring to going to Caramoor, either….BUT. to some rough neck-napeing action—-LOL…!!

      ..I’m ALREADY planning the pic-nic menus…..!!

      : )

      on November 30, 2011 at 8:16 PM
      • Camille says:

        Happy to oblige, dear.

        Just make sure to include truffles, anchovies, and capers! Camille loves the salty stuff!

        on November 30, 2011 at 8:42 PM
        • brooklynpunk says:

          I KNEW I LIKED YA, CAMILLE….!

          Capers …and anchovies … are among the top of of my food chain….

          …I make the world’s BEST caponata……!

          on November 30, 2011 at 8:49 PM
          • Camille says:

            You are so ON, BP, if you make caponata–I hope you include a tiny bit of cioccolato, the segreto per esser felice!!

            Until our summer picnic we have another horrible winter to weather, so I will plumb all my cookbooks for the best of the best caponatas.

            Until the fair season and under the Venetian tent—!!!!!

            on November 30, 2011 at 9:22 PM
          • brooklynpunk says:

            …I sure do, Camille… it adds to that certain magical taste-bud quivering effect… !

            on November 30, 2011 at 9:38 PM
        • MontyNostry says:

          Don’t you get thirsty, though, Camille? It must make long operas even more uncomfortable than they already tend to do be.

          on December 1, 2011 at 3:00 AM
          • Camille says:

            No, sir.
            Canille loves capers, and especially in her caponata.
            Thereby giving as good an excuse to grab the nearest magnum of Veuve Clicquot and cry out’Follie’ as any other.

            on December 2, 2011 at 10:14 AM
    • Sanford says:

      Pick me up, too
      I’m in the Bronx.

      Seriously, we New Yorkers should band together and rent a car.

      on December 1, 2011 at 1:44 PM
  • grimoaldo says:

    Very good they are doing this rare Rossini from which I only am familiar with only one aria, written all on one note. As Rossini said in a letter “I had an awful seconda donna for my opera, Ciro in Babilonia. Besides being hideously ugly, she had the most wretched voice. After trying it with the utmost care I discovered that she possessed one single good note. So I wrote an aria for her in which she had nothing but this note to sing. All the rest I put into the orchestra, and as it was liked and applauded, my singer of the one note was delighted with her triumph.”

    on November 30, 2011 at 8:15 PM
    • semira mide says:

      Thank you. I was going to post the anecdote, but I hoped someone else would.
      Rossini was a genius.

      on November 30, 2011 at 9:16 PM
    • Quanto Painy Fakor says:

      Wonderful letter and thanks for posting that.
      With just a few extra notes and for different reasons, Ravel did it much more beautifully (see 08:14 here:)

      on November 30, 2011 at 9:25 PM
    • louannd says:

      That is absolutely WONDERFUL! Thank you Grim. Apparently Rossini was not only a genius but a fucking genius.

      on November 30, 2011 at 10:27 PM
  • suzyQ says:

    Oh La Cieca, thank you so much for this wonderful news! Can’t wait & Brooklyn Punk you better come out there next summer!!

    on November 30, 2011 at 8:17 PM
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