Brazen overtures
Norman Lebrecht is repeating gossip Conrad Osborne heard from Stephen Blier.
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Who let the dogs out?
Norman Lebrecht, as is increasingly his wont, emitted a vicious racially-charged dog whistle this morning.
“It all depends on whose ox is being gored”
One thing Norman Lebrecht does better than anyone in the business: whipping up a racist frenzy.
Warhorse
Francesca da Rimini was performed at La Scala four times in 1950 and five times in 1959.
Slipped hypocrisy
Coot-owned and -operated blog which never reviews anything complains that the New York Times classical music section is reviewing the wrong things.
My metaphor was drawn from genocides
Peter Gelb offering voluntary buyouts to a couple of dozen employees is precisely the same thing as Nazis murdering hundreds of people.
“And the usherette was all out of raspberry ripple lollies!”
Long-time followers of Norman Lebrecht will not be surprised in the least to hear this.
Deplorable disc
Norman Lebrecht is a bloody-minded crank, but, honestly, some of the commenters on his site make him seem the reincarnation of Mother Teresa.
Trifecta of horror
Jackie Evancho! Andrea Bocelli! Donald Trump! I mean, what else do you want, a Zuni fetish doll eviscerating Karen Black?
Soprano fegato
“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.
A tale told by an idiot
Braindead fucktard Norman Lebrecht makes two major errors of fact in two sentences.
Norman Lebrecht wants *you* to fact-check his next column
Braindead coot Norman Lebrecht gets it wrong again.
INTERNET BLOGGING IDIOT IS ACCUSED LONDON LIBELIST
Veteran maroon Norman Lebrecht does it again.
Everyone’s an expert
“No hitting? They got hitting! They got no defense!”
“I will applaud your discretion when you leave”
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.
“Never mind!”
“In the first place,” Human Weasel Norman Lebrecht helpfully clarified, “it was not a gay bar the director wanted but a miners’ bar.”
Bête baignoire
Why, look: Norman Lebrecht has found yet another reactionary cause to embrace!
Apotheosis
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.
Schadenfreude, schöner Götterfunken
“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.”
When Caucasians collide
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.
Dog bites man, part infinity
“The soup is hot; the soup is cold; Norman Lebrecht got it wrong again.”
All right, God, you have my attention
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.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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