A new opera company in Hell’s Kitchen is preparing for its first performances of Tosca – and it’s putting the experience of chronic illness front and center.
You really think that Bernheim should be singing BALLO next year in any house in the world? Maybe in 8-10 years.. "Maybe you have a penchant for hearing French singers with less acuity ?" 1) Yes,...
He's meant to be a horny Everyman Dude which pretty well fits this production!?
Danke sehr, but I'm no longer allowed in the Venusberg. They found me too rebellious sadly.
Olga, girl, WTF are you talking about?
The actual broadcast on Sat. 4/12 was live.
Some of the intermission features were repeats.
Bintner got bad notices ? Well, in spite of it, he is coming back next season as Figaro in Nozze. Some people use the ONP subsidies as an annuity. What I was trying to say about Polenzani is that...
Oh nooooooo.
To my surprise, Dupuis's Rodrigue at the Met and Macbeth in Washington worked very well. Did you hear them in the house? Many years ago, Tézier did NOT have such a voice for the big theaters...
Agree about Carmen.
I agree. I would not like a singer who could not bring beauty to those numbers that you mention. Sadly, Villazon was such a singer (unsurprisingly). Besides the baritones you name, I'd add...
Are you saying that Dupuis has a bigger voice, or projects better than Degout ? Because that’s simply not the case. Having heard both of them many times, their voices are more or less of equal...
There is some dispute as to how many people contributed to the libretto and one theory is that much of the masonic mumbo-jumbo was put in to satisfy one of the backers. In any case, Mozart's own...
Sorry to say we endured his ham handed conducting of excerpts from Parsifal a few months back.
It seems that betwixed Covid pandemic & reinstallation of Trump we have become terribly touchy observer/critics!?
Fixed…but Fenton does seem like an interesting idea…
I wish Amadeus were here to cackle/guffaw at us over his Masonic singspiel after 230+ years---may his moldering remains keep spinning!!
Villazon was ghastly. I understand the role’s gestation was for an unpolished singer and some trained vocalists without much plush can capture that well, like Christian Boesch, Jochen...
If "Marmalade Messiah" is who I think it is, Gelb's casting department has finally gone to far by indulging the Trump regime's taking over of our celebrity life, our collective...
Possibly backlash from last Disney-like production which carried the colorful whimsy in the story too far?!
If I am not mistaken, the original Bottle Dance is from Donizetti's Tamara di Riverdale.
A new opera company in Hell’s Kitchen is preparing for its first performances of Tosca – and it’s putting the experience of chronic illness front and center.
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“The island is only small / But the fairies inhabiting it / Welcome us all”
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