The long-awaited return of the “Jambon d’Or,” featuring bass-baritone (?) Liudas Mikalauskas. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/TNW8wOQ6hq8″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
If you ever wondered, cher public, what Adriana Lecouvreur would look like as a Charles Busch “Grande Dame Guignol” epic, well, now here’s your chance. (It’s surely coincidental, though serendipitous, that mezzo-soprano Marianna Bódi so closely resembles Olivia de Havilland circa Lady in a Cage.)
Announcing a new category on parterre.com, an award of sorts for examples of the garish, the gaudy, the over-the-top in things operatic. Not filth, mind you — we’re talking good, but just, you know, too much. La Cieca’s special jury prize for this type of operatic ham will be called “Le Jambon d’Or,” and our…