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Comment on A dandy intermission feature by armerjacquino

armerjacquino — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:41:31 +0000

Dutoit.

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by armerjacquino

armerjacquino — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:40:53 +0000

Just the WALKURE and the FIDELIO film I think. Not a huge problem because I have the Vienna FIDELIO DVD, and I’m not a Wagner fan. The only Wagner opera I have is a TANNHAUSER with Silja, Bumbry and Windgassen that I picked up for a fiver at the Notting Hill Record Exchange.

Comment on Encouraging young things to grow by Betsy_Ann_Bobolink

Betsy_Ann_Bobolink — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:27:35 +0000

Just out of curiosity, Camille, why are you telling me not to eat bananas? Seems an odd sort of advice on this site.

Comment on Encouraging young things to grow by Ilka Saro

Ilka Saro — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:27:18 +0000

Tu sei giaaaaaaallo. Come un moooooooorto!

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:22:02 +0000

I don’t think I have any Vickers either. Though aren’t you depriving yourself a whole chunk of Janowitz there!?

Comment on Space cadet by oedipe

oedipe — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:19:45 +0000

The best thing about next year’s Whitsun Festival is its interesting and controversial theme -Sacrifice- and the original and thought provoking choice of works to be included in it.

http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/Portals/0/Pfingsten_2013_Programm_Web.pdf

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:19:24 +0000

Is life without a Troyens recording so inconceivable?

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by Camille

Camille — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:17:07 +0000

That is exactly so. I happened to have been in Seattle at the time and remember the advertisements. I considered going but had to leave town before I had a chance to hear it which makes me very sorry now. How ianw2 would have envied me!!

Years later I knew someone who worked on the production who told me the tenor was pretty bad and how relieved he was when that character died in media res opera. Unfortunately, thanks to reincarnation, the tenor character was revived at some point and started singing again with his love, Sîta, Joan Sutherland.

Like I said, I really regret not having had the time and space to see that. Unlike that tenor character, I doubt this gros dindon delite will be revived again.

Comment on Encouraging young things to grow by Camille

Camille — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:05:53 +0000

I always knew Signor Giallo would be good for something.

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:02:20 +0000

So you went in and corrected it, right?

[the following isn't directed at you, rysanekfreak, because I don't know if you did anything or not]

Pet peeve time: people who complain about errors on Wikipedia but don’t go in and change them. It takes 30 seconds to sign up, it’s easy to go in and edit things, do it, leave a citation or proof, and just do it. I’ve made changes on a bunch of stuff, it’s easy to do.

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:58:37 +0000

Hahahaha.

Comment on Space cadet by Enzo Bordello

Enzo Bordello — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:55:52 +0000

Bill: Thank you for your tribute to DFD’s Rigoletto. I listened to it again a day or two after his death and was blown away again by the phrasing, dramatic commitment and attention to dynamics. I also watched an interview with DFD recently where he said a critic attempted to rebuke him by saying: “You sing Verdi like it is Schubert!” And DFD replied: “Why, thank you!”

Comment on Encouraging young things to grow by arepo

arepo — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:54:07 +0000

Mighty impressive.
Bravo!

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:35:49 +0000

Ghena Dimitrova in Roberto Devereux -- remarkable:

Comment on Down in the Regie on the ninetieth floor by Hans Lick

Hans Lick — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:33:26 +0000

… p.s. Very Eurovision, that Tannhauser, eh what?

Comment on Space cadet by willym

willym — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:32:28 +0000

Bill: They just announced next year’s Whitsun Festival opera will be Norma and Ceci is also singing the Brahm’s Deutscher Requiem with Rene Pape.

5 hours???? And I thought the Muti Demofoonte was long a 3 1/2 several years ago.

And for any of the editors out there yes I know I’ve probably made a few errors but its Sunday morning and I haven’t had my cappucc yet so…

Comment on Down in the Regie on the ninetieth floor by Hans Lick

Hans Lick — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:32:08 +0000

… unless it’s Tannhauser:

1) Landgraf Hermann judges the song contest. Tannhauser k.o. in three.

2) He examines the “experimental results” of the hunting expedition in Act I.

3) The pilgrims en route home from Rome. Or maybe it’s the Venusberg in Act I. Six of one, eh?

Comment on Down in the Regie on the ninetieth floor by Hans Lick

Hans Lick — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:30:07 +0000

So obvious:

Parsifal!

1) As wounded Amfortas listens, Parsifal (or is it Gurnemanz?) looks over the text for the evening’s ritual.

2) Gurnemanz (or is it Parsifal) studies Titurel for transshipment to a better world. (Symbolically, he is thinking outside the box.)

3) The Flower Maidens (transvest of course) celebrate the coming of spring, the handsome stranger and anybody else who’s up for it.

Comment on Encouraging young things to grow by SilvestriWoman

SilvestriWoman — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:17:17 +0000

Congrats, divina Cieca!!! Though it has nothing to do with the Kerfuffle, you can add Mom to your legion of fans. An avid Met in HD fan in San Antonio, she turned to you for the most updated opera news. As she puts it, “I don’t always understand what they’re saying, but I’m catching on!”

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by operacat

operacat — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:46:21 +0000

Just curious. . .whose TROYENS do you own?

Comment on Space cadet by Bill

Bill — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:43:35 +0000

Dear Camille – not to worry. Fischer-Dieskau has
a treasure trove of recorded samples of his artistry -
probably more recordings than any other singer in
history and thanks to Orfeo, also much of his
Salzburg legacy. I even loved his Rigoletto (with
Scotto and Berganzi) which many revile – I was overexposed to this opera when I was young. I was
for two years President of the Metropolitan Opera
Guild’s student council in New Jersey (largely
funded by the dowagers living in Upper Montclair) and aside from presiding over regular Guild meetings of high school students, I was assigned to go to all the
student performances for two seasons at the Met – one year it was 7 Rigolettos not with superb casts. My
job was to stay in the family circle during the
intermissions and make sure the students did not
throw down pennies from the family circle on the
kettle drums (which they often tried to do as sport). But 7 routine Rigolettos in the space of 6 weeks or so turned me off to this opera and I seldom saw the opera live thereafter. Fischer-Dieskau’s rendition of the title role on DGG (not idiomatic perhaps but intellectually and beautifully sung) re-opened up my eyes to re-accept the opera as worthy of attention.
But from Fischer-Dieskau there is so much at which
to marvel – the first time I ever heard a Handel Opera (first extracts on DGG in 1960 from Giulio Cesare with Seefried and with Boehm conducting – a large rich
orchestra), then the full recording with Troyanos as an unlikely but successful Cleopatra. I liked Fischer-Dieskau in almost everything he sang or recorded, from Bach to modern works.

By the way, the Bartoli “Giulio Cesare” in Salzburg
just now has received glowing reviews and was
5 hours long – a few boos for the production. It will be interesing to see what she has planned for the future in Salzburg.

Comment on Home on the range by Rory Williams

Rory Williams — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:27:25 +0000

LOL, thanks, Camille!

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by Clita del Toro

Clita del Toro — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:48:49 +0000

Live Siegfried from Munich is on new—Act I

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by armerjacquino

armerjacquino — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:14:16 +0000

Actually, that’s not true about Vickers- I have the Solti AIDA somewhere.

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by armerjacquino

armerjacquino — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:13:45 +0000

I don’t have any Crespin (just an accident) or any Vickers (who I consciously avoid).

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by prettygirl

prettygirl — Sun, 27 May 2012 13:28:09 +0000

SALOME!!! Did anyone else die and go to heaven on Thursday night?

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by Clita del Toro

Clita del Toro — Sun, 27 May 2012 13:07:44 +0000

Dumb, off-topic topic: Singers whose recordings you have never, ever bought.

Mine are: Domingo, Milnes, Caballe, Sills.

Comment on A dandy intermission feature by Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:50:52 +0000

They did it in Seattle after Vancouver and before the recording, so it looks like they’ve got the city wrong rather than the opera.

Comment on Space cadet by Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:42:37 +0000

Quite surprised the Vicar hasn’t chimed in with your enthusiasm for Carolyn Sampson. Come on, effective though she is in her way, she’s not leading role at the Met material in any repertoire.

Comment on Space cadet by phoenix

phoenix — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:18:27 +0000

On this inaugural festive weekend: very best wishes to Bobensane (and all parterrianensane comrades) for an enjoyable summer.
- However, don’t forget your field exercises, helmet polishing & spear sharpening as Pollione has declared Next Spring in Salzburg -> OCCUPY PFINGSTFESTSPIELE!