You naysayers out there who are guffawing at Renée Fleming‘s Broadway CD as the diva’s long-anticipated descent into utter camp: hey, be nice!
Or at least be accurate! Fleming has been low camp for at least two decades now.
I saw the HD and have two comments: 1. Per Mr. Billnitzer's comment, the theater I was in didn't have to cancel, but there was a serious sync error between the audio and video which...
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A favorite Donizetti performance from Kevin Ng · 58 minutes ago
You don't sound too demanding. You said pretty much what I would have said: nice enough but not memorable. It did sound like the audience was having a good time. I'm not a fan of this...
Siriusxm just cut off Debra in mid sentence wrapping up the broadcast... odd
A nice performance overall with young, fresh voices for the most part but that didn't grab my attention in the way I was expecting. Good but not individual enough. I'm sorry if I'm...
I think Mr. Hopkins sounds like he would make an ideal Giovanni.
and, THE MOMENT....nailed it.
Mallwitz has quite a wonderful way of keeping things fresh and moving.
I've mostly listened to the whole thing (an hour of it on the rowing machine) and I think I agree that I like the men better.
just tuned in about twenty minutes ago, nice Deh, vieni
The theater where I had tickets to see the HD canceled the showing a few minutes before 1:00 pm. Some sort of technical issue where the Met had updated its software but the theater didn't get...
"The psychophysics"!
I have not listened to the whole broadcast, but so far the performance lacks a certain charm. Perhaps this is not the case at the house or HD.
I mean the temperament and dramatic theatricality of "... Non rrregno, ... Non vivo!" The whole of Elisabetta's predicament in 6 most eloquent and terrifying/terrified notes. Many have tried. I...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Kevin Ng · 3 hours ago
Thanks. If the singing was that good, the conducting must at least have supported the singers. Very promising.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 4 hours ago
The Cherubino's got a nice sound, but there's both some pitchiness as well as some issues around intervals. Hard to know if it's nerves, but given how many women start singing the...
I sort of wish I was watching the HD. I'd like to see how she's playing it. There's a wide range of possibilities, and then there's the question of where she's going....
I hate to quibble because it's a gorgeous voice but there's something lacking there. It sounds a little bit vacant to me.
Now THAT is a Countess I'd love to hear in the house. Especially when Barber's pretty much running at the same time, we get to see Rosina the minx who, in just a few years, grew up way...
It's too soon to talk about the women, but I think that the Figaro/Count combination's pretty perfect. They sound right for their roles, both of them possessed of noble and rustic...
You naysayers out there who are guffawing at Renée Fleming‘s Broadway CD as the diva’s long-anticipated descent into utter camp: hey, be nice!
Or at least be accurate! Fleming has been low camp for at least two decades now.
Topics: broadway cd, camp, la scoopenda, renee fleming
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