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« Reply #15 on: 17:54:43, 24-11-2007 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 07:44:01, 24-11-2007
Nathan Gunn as Budd and Ian Bostridge as Vere.

I'd crowns resign to see N Gunn as Budd,  alhough the notion of Bostridge as Vere isn't my idea of good or wise casting.  It's usually sung by a tenor,  I believe.

Quote from: George Garnett on 07:44:01, 24-11-2007
While on the 'interesting' casting front: Ian Bostridge as Macheath Huh in a forthcoming Threepenny Opera to be conducted by H K Gruber.

I can imagine Gruber would be an excellent conductor for that material - but once again, the colourless,  white voice of Bostridge does nothing for me at all,  and I can't imagine anyone less suited for the role Sad    I realise he has a whole fanclub here, but I'm afraid I'm never likely to join Sad
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« Reply #16 on: 19:58:21, 27-11-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 17:54:43, 24-11-2007
I realise [Bostridge] has a whole fanclub here
Indeed, he appeals to 'old ladies of both sexes' (as martle's publisher once commented to me!).

Quote from: martle on 09:40:39, 24-11-2007
Hmm, not sure what your problem with Roddy Williams is, tinners.
Only just come back to this thread, sorry. Forgot I'd posted in it ... It's the terr-rrib-bly Eng-glish dict-tion that irritates me. I liked him the first two times I heard him (Eight Songs for a Mad King at the Barbican and Lennox Berkeley double bill at the Linbury) but have found him incredibly mannered on more recent occasions.

Hadn't realised he was in your opera, martle. I have a CD-R of that; I guess it must be him, or is that a different run? Don't remember him bothering me at all on that, so maybe it is just a recent development.
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« Reply #17 on: 20:03:01, 27-11-2007 »
No, that must be him, tinners. It was only recorded the once. His is the more minor of the two male roles (baritone, of course), but there's plenty of fine, un-mannered singing from him there. I have also heard him in a couple of concert performances since that, but not in the last three years or so. So perhaps he's changed - shame, if so!
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« Reply #18 on: 20:15:34, 27-11-2007 »
I very much like what I've heard of Williams too, all in the last 3 years or so. In fact just today I was pondering (in the bath) that it would be nice to write for him! Sorry tinners... Tongue
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« Reply #19 on: 20:42:20, 27-11-2007 »
Tinners, Williams was the baritone soloist in the shorter Heiner Goebbels piece in the recent H&N prog. Fortuitously, perhaps, in the light of an imminent visit from Postman Pat...(And, Martle, a recent one...)
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« Reply #20 on: 10:33:38, 28-11-2007 »
OK, well, I shall listen again and reconsider.

Hope he's not been reading this thread in the meantime: he might never sing your piece if he knew you'd been thinking about him in the bath, Stuart! Roll Eyes
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« Reply #21 on: 15:44:04, 28-11-2007 »
Fair point, tinners! On the other hand, you never know, he might be delighted!
(It was only his voice I was thinking about, guv...)
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« Reply #22 on: 17:55:29, 28-11-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 17:54:43, 24-11-2007
the notion of Bostridge as Vere isn't my idea of good or wise casting.  It's usually sung by a tenor,  I believe.

Er, putting aside questions of personal preference, are we casting nasturtiums here on IB's tenorship as well?  Roll Eyes
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