Our Own JJ makes his farewell to Gay City News, — not “in a box — simple pine” à la Morgana Neri
Meanwhile, still in place, and festive as ever, is that pearl among podcasts, The Entertainment Beat with Frances Gumm.
“In Adriana Lecouvreur, Domingo manages to portray plausibly a character young enough to be his grandson. He is the dashing Count Maurizio, who is entangled in a romantic triangle with the celebrated actress Adriana and a scheming princess. The count’s excuse for two-timing Adriana is perhaps the most original in the history of cheating. He’s planning an invasion of Lithuania, you see, and he’s financing the coup with a play-for-pay arrangement with the princess.”
Our Own JJ reviews the Met’s revival of Adriana Lecouvreur in Gay City News.
Is it possible that Our Own JJ could ever complain about too much drama at the opera? In his review of Lucia for Gay City News, complain he does!
J’ai un ami, JJ, qui m’a raconté cette mise en scène de La rondine dans Gay City News.
“The campy diva lover in me should exult at the credit in the program ‘Renée Fleming‘s Costumes by Christian Lacroix,’ but in fact the couturier’s frocks were something of a mishmash. Best was a shimmering gold sheath that set off Fleming’s first entrance and trim waistline to perfection; worst was a rumpled ivory silk ballgown that made the dying (or dead?) Thaïs resemble a Botoxed Miss Havisham.” Our Own JJ reviews the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Thaïs in Gay City News. In other too-good-to-be-true (and yet it is!) news, the image gallery for this production is now live at the [...]
“The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead – they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.” That’s how La Cieca (as author of parterre.com) is analyzed at Typealizer. Your doyenne is deemed “The Performer” on the Myers-Briggs scale. Rather spookily accurate, don’t you think, cher public? So, at the risk of exhausting herself, La Cieca also ran an analysis of Our Own JJ‘s style (specifically his current Gay [...]
Our Own JJ (right) reviews the Met’s revivals of Don Giovanni and Salome in Gay City News.
After Natalie Dessay‘s second act aria in La Fille du Régiment, the Metropolitan Opera audience just didn’t want to stop applauding — that’s how much fun they were having. Finally the soprano had to shush them so this new production of the Donizetti comic opera (heard April 21) could rollick to its triumphant conclusion. Our Own JJ reviews the rollicking in the current issue of Gay City News.
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