L’intervallo
Now that La Cieca (pictured) has returned to New York, she can hardly wait to hear your off-topic and general interest discussion for the week.
Now that La Cieca (pictured) has returned to New York, she can hardly wait to hear your off-topic and general interest discussion for the week.
When we first did this in New Joisy, Galvany held the last note for about three hours. This is 1974 City Opera..Tell me if ANYONE TODAY compares to this..It is called “Cantando con Coglioni.”
P.S. If you can tell us her other phony names and the real one, I will sing the final scene for you.
Perché mai? Con chi cantava?
And then there was Radvanovsky herself. This prodigiously gifted American soprano remains something of a work in progress.
There was a lot to like in her first crack at this touchstone role, which the legendary Maria Callas restored to the modern repertory in 1957. The basic quality of Radvanovsky’s voice can be thrilling – a penetrating sound that is hard-edged without being harsh. She unleashed astonishing power, especially at the top of her range (though she was not always able to scale back the volume when she should have). But there were still traces of her tendency to sing flat, and some of her phrasing was rhythmically imprecise.
Dramatically, she has not yet found the emotional depth to portray the tragic queen as much more than the weepy victim of a conniving king. The one exception came in the encounter with Ganassi, when the Italian mezzo’s own intensity seemed to jump-start her performance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120919/us-opera-review-anna-bolena/
Radvanovsky shines in Washington National Opera’s ‘Anna Bolena’
By Anne Midgette
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/radvanovsky-shines-in-washington-national-operas-anna-bolena/2012/09/16/6752e2f6-0024-11e2-b260-32f4a8db9b7e_story.html
“It was certainly a lot better than David McVicar’s staid, unenlightening production that opened the Metropolitan Opera’s season last fall. And Radvanovsky, rhythmic issues and all, is a better fit for this part, with her laser-clear voice and thought-out character portrayal, than the otherwise marvelous Anna Netrebko.”
Another of the sopranos who outshines most of the dull divas of today..Born Sept.22, 1941
Sorry..The clip did not list her name:
Anna Tomowa-Sintow……
The start of the opera season means that the singing elves have left Aithra’s undersea palace and are now writing blog posts for Superconductor. Of interest: a review of last night’s Anna Bolena with Sondra Radvanovsky at the Washington National Opera, and a review of Einstein on the Beach hosted by our friends at The Classical Review.