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« Reply #45 on: 09:17:03, 16-09-2008 »
Quote from: Ruth Elleson on 17:30:34, 15-09-2008
Must be my middle-aged tastes in music Cheesy

Anyway, I'm off now - going to see Don Giovanni at the ROH this evening (and, for my sins, STANDING, which I could do without after the Evening of Eight Hours in Four-Inch Heels the other night)

Hope you enjoyed it Ruth! I went on Friday but I have to admit I was sitting in free seats!!!!!

I thought it was great, but interested to hear what you have to say. Did you like hell?!! Shocked Shocked and the last tableau?

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« Reply #46 on: 09:50:01, 16-09-2008 »
Quote from: Ruth Elleson on 07:46:25, 16-09-2008
frankly I'm ecstatic simply to have come across as a reasonably normal human being

Normal, Ruth? Normal? I didn't hear anyone here say 'normal'. Did anyone  hear someone say 'normal'. Anyone? No? Oh well ... Cheesy Kiss

Btw, your hair looks really good up Smiley <grovel emoticon>
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« Reply #47 on: 10:34:21, 16-09-2008 »
By the way - did I see our George in the audience?  Huh
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« Reply #48 on: 10:53:29, 16-09-2008 »
Not if you mean me, Mills, noooooo. Or if I did appear as a blurry figure we had better ask the Mods to transfer this rapidly over to the Spooooky thread Shocked.

My only contact with the Last Night this year was to catch up on the i-thingy with Ruth's appearance Kiss and watch Helene Grimaud playing the Beethoven in the first half (did anyone else keep expecting Dawn French to appear next to her demanding to have a go?).

 
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« Reply #49 on: 10:56:19, 16-09-2008 »
There is someone that looks very like you, George during the Auld Lang Syne.  Did your brother go?  Perhaps he looks like you?  Anyway I should have known it wasn't you because you weren't joining in - and of course you would have been!  Grin (All the same I thought he looked spookily similar.... Shocked)
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« Reply #50 on: 11:04:29, 16-09-2008 »
Quote from: Milly Jones on 10:56:19, 16-09-2008
There is someone that looks very like you, George during the Auld Lang Syne.  Did your brother go?  Perhaps he looks like you?  Anyway I should have known it wasn't you because you weren't joining in ...

Yikes! Not joining in with the singing sounds exactly like me. I'm just feeling a spooky shiver down my spine. I'm not sure I dare look at Old Lang Syne now.

My brother wasn't there either, no. Oddly we never used to look like one another but we now seem to be converging and both turning into our father. 
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« Reply #51 on: 11:06:30, 16-09-2008 »
I think I might know who you mean, Milly.  Even though I haven't watched that part of the concert back on my recording, there is a Prommer who looks quite like George...

Alternatively it could have been a little grey wolf from Grimaud's wolf sanctuary...  Grin

(By the way, off topic: yes, A, I did enjoy Don Giovanni.  I've seen the production before, and it has its weird moments, but is generally serviceable and I do enjoy the last two scenes.  I thought the men were excellent, as was Joyce DiDonato, but got really irritated with Poplavskaya's swooping portamenti, haphazard intonation and non-existent diction.  I also wasn't too keen on Persson's rather strident and monochrome Zerlina at first, but she was far better in Act 2.  There were a few ensemble problems, and an excess of vocal ornamentation in the arias.  We got Robert Murray in place of Ramon Vargas, which I didn't mind at all, given that a few people who saw it last week have mentioned that they didn't much rate his performance.)
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« Reply #52 on: 11:13:16, 16-09-2008 »
Quote from: Ruth Elleson on 11:06:30, 16-09-2008
I think I might know who you mean, Milly.  Even though I haven't watched that part of the concert back on my recording, there is a Prommer who looks quite like George...


Thank goodness for that! I thought I might have been going a little bit odder than usual.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #53 on: 11:43:50, 16-09-2008 »
I am rather fond of this version




http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Giovanni-Cullagh-Plazas-Tierny/dp/B00005J6YT/ref=cm_lmf_img_4/105-9044259-4590804

apparently, before da ponte, the versions of the story were played for laughs, he made it more of a morality tale

if you belive this, anyway

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lorenzo-Da-Ponte-Extraordinary-Adventures/dp/0747585369/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221561670&sr=1-1
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« Reply #54 on: 18:07:38, 16-09-2008 »
Just seen the clip: Ruth came across well! Very confident and straightforward. Lips sealed
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« Reply #55 on: 16:51:07, 17-09-2008 »
By the way, I watched Auld Lang Syne back yesterday to see if I could spot the George lookalike.  I saw who you must have meant - it wasn't who I thought, as it was somebody in a Stalls seat.  He didn't look that much like George.

Then the camera switched to Sir Roger "Authenticity" Norrington, who along with half the audience was singing the wrong flippin' words Angry (this despite the correct words being supplied in the programme...)
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« Reply #56 on: 18:35:16, 19-09-2008 »
I no doubt that ruth will end up working for radio 3
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« Reply #57 on: 08:39:37, 20-09-2008 »
Lord byron, not a bad idea that. She would make a good replacement for the much lamented Stephanie Hughes.
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