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Looks like Tristan & Isolde is in danger of taking over from Tosca as the operatic equivalent of The Scottish Play...  |
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« Reply #17 on: 22:56:50, 19-03-2008 » |
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I wonder if you-know-who's on holiday in Manhattan?  Don Giovanni went through a similar succession of catastrophes some years back, I seem to recall..... |
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« Reply #18 on: 16:21:35, 20-03-2008 » |
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I wonder if you-know-who's on holiday in Manhattan? I heard he'd moved to Bolivia ... |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #19 on: 16:31:23, 20-03-2008 » |
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Hmmm. So it would seem.
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« Reply #20 on: 21:01:00, 26-03-2008 » |
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Ben Heppner has recovered and takes over as Tristan at the Met for the final two performances of the run!  |
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« Reply #21 on: 21:01:37, 26-03-2008 » |
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Whilst simultaneously Voigt declares herself ill and pulls out of them  Now to be sung by Janice Baird (once again). |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #22 on: 21:23:36, 26-03-2008 » |
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Ben Heppner has recovered and takes over as Tristan at the Met for the final two performances of the run! I think the last time I saw him was as a most unlikely replacement for an ailing Jane Eaglen - in the concert hall rather than the opera house, obviously! Whilst simultaneously Voigt declares herself ill and pulls out of them Now to be sung by Janice Baird (once again). While listening to her final scene on Saturday I couldn't help wondering if she was fully recovered. |
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« Reply #23 on: 23:47:43, 26-03-2008 » |
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While listening to her final scene on Saturday I couldn't help wondering if she was fully recovered.
Her final note, in particular... (I had been quite wrapped up in in until that point ) |
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« Reply #24 on: 19:36:23, 28-03-2008 » |
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Falstaff with Bryn Terfel was absolutely brilliant at The Mayflower yesterday evening. Bryn absolutely owns the role - the humour got a lot of laughs, especially his leap into the laundry basket in Act II, but it was the pathos he exhibited after his Thames ducking which was truly touching. The rest of the cast were very good too - Janice Watson as a glorious Alice, Anthony Mee as Dr Cajus, but especially Simon Thorpe as a stand-in for the indisposed Christopher Purves as Ford.
Question - was this Peter Stein production televised when it first appeared? I did see it in Southampton in the late 80s/early 90s (I'm sure it was my second ever opera), but I surprised myself with just how much detail I could remember. It's a wonderful production, preferable, I think, to the ROH's. Bryn got a tremendous reception at the end - taking his solo bow, he merely held his arms wide and beamed (there's been some conspiracy stories in the past that he didn't like Southampton as he tended to end his appearances for WNO before the latter stages of the tour), so I hope the response he got yesterday changed his mind!
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« Reply #25 on: 19:44:17, 28-03-2008 » |
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Question - was this Peter Stein production televised when it first appeared?
I'm sure it was - I have a recollection of having seen the original production although I know I didn't see it in the theatre. |
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« Reply #26 on: 22:03:50, 28-03-2008 » |
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IGI - for me, it will have to be an exceptional production to be the best I've seen - it's not the ROH production it has to live up to, but ENO's. I''m glad Simon Thorpe was good. I was introduced to him in a pub once, and as a result of that conversation I ended up going to see the revival of 'Ines de Castro' in Edinburgh (in which he was singing Pacheco) which I greatly enjoyed I wonder if we might still have him as Ford next week in Milton Keynes? |
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