Norman Lebrecht is repeating gossip Conrad Osborne heard from Stephen Blier.
Norman Lebrecht, as is increasingly his wont, emitted a vicious racially-charged dog whistle this morning.
One thing Norman Lebrecht does better than anyone in the business: whipping up a racist frenzy.
Francesca da Rimini was performed at La Scala four times in 1950 and five times in 1959.
Coot-owned and -operated blog which never reviews anything complains that the New York Times classical music section is reviewing the wrong things.
Peter Gelb offering voluntary buyouts to a couple of dozen employees is precisely the same thing as Nazis murdering hundreds of people.
Long-time followers of Norman Lebrecht will not be surprised in the least to hear this.
Norman Lebrecht is a bloody-minded crank, but, honestly, some of the commenters on his site make him seem the reincarnation of Mother Teresa.
Jackie Evancho! Andrea Bocelli! Donald Trump! I mean, what else do you want, a Zuni fetish doll eviscerating Karen Black?
“It appears that 12.5 million Italians watched the liver relay of the original version of Madam Butterfly from La Scala,” claims Norman Lebrecht, which is perfectly accurate except that there was no organ meat involved in the telecast.
Those of you who follow the blog Slipped Disc will not be at all surprised that Norman Lebrecht has taken the opportunity of this weekend’s difficulties at the Met to behave like a total dick.
Braindead fucktard Norman Lebrecht makes two major errors of fact in two sentences.
Braindead coot Norman Lebrecht gets it wrong again.
Veteran maroon Norman Lebrecht does it again.
“No hitting? They got hitting! They got no defense!”
There was a bit of a foofaraw over on Facebook yesterday involving two of your doyenne’s favorite people, in alphabetical order Christine Goerke and Norman Lebrecht.
“In the first place,” Human Weasel Norman Lebrecht helpfully clarified, “it was not a gay bar the director wanted but a miners’ bar.”
Why, look: Norman Lebrecht has found yet another reactionary cause to embrace!
There is something for everyone on the internet, even classical music aficionados who are looking for fellow bacon-lovers to share stories about breastfeeding porn arrests.
“One of the most highly-regarded pianists of our time, Grigory Sokolov, has refused to accept the Cremona Music Award 2015 because it has previously been awarded to the blogger Norman Lebrecht.”
Here’s a charming example of an old European white male quoting another old European white male for the purpose of mansplaining to those silly Asians why they have no business getting offended at ethnic stereotypes.
“The soup is hot; the soup is cold; Norman Lebrecht got it wrong again.”
Prepare to have your eyes opened.
Norman Lebrecht announces that Deborah Voigt , “one of the leading Brünnhildes of our time,” will join Rufus Wainwright to sing arias from Prima Donna (5) and will then join him in a duet of “If I Loved You” from Carousel and… oh, I just can’t.
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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
