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... Joan Rodgers appears as The Duchess in POWDER HER FACE, in a new production by Carlos Wagner... the South Bank Sinfonia are conducted by Timothy Redmong, and Alan Ewing is the Hotel Manager. Perfs 11 through 20 June, online Booking is open now... http://esales.roh.org.uk/tickets/production.aspx?pid=5755 |
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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 #1 on: 18:32:42, 28-03-2008 » |
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Yes, am looking forward to that. I have only seen it in a concert performance before.
My mother has decided to come with us so I hope she's not going to have a seizure at the, er, adult content.
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #2 on: 18:48:35, 28-03-2008 » |
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I'll be there on 13th June.
I like Powder Her Face, and will welcome seeing it staged (having only previously seen it on Channel 4 TV and in concert at the Barbican)
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #3 on: 19:51:05, 28-03-2008 » |
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My mother has decided to come with us so I hope she's not going to have a seizure at the, er, adult content.
'Seizure' being the operative term?  No, seriously, just tell her the singer's going 'Mmmm' because she's forgotten the words. I don't think I'll be there, but Timothy Redmon d is an excellent and very dedicated conductor, so I hope it's a successful project. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #4 on: 22:06:06, 28-03-2008 » |
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I might have related this anecdote before, but I once found myself in a conversation about this opera with a singer who has become renowned for her assumption of the title role.
She said she had never let her parents see it...
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« Reply #5 on: 22:08:25, 28-03-2008 » |
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Ruth, that's not so much an anecdote as a virtuoso display of innuendo, obfuscation and coyness. Spill 'em.  |
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #6 on: 22:16:31, 28-03-2008 » |
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Hmm, I didn't mean "title role" either, did I  (thought I'd better correct myself on this point before one of the (or perhaps I should say my fellow) pedants picks up on it No, seriously, I just happened to be having a conversation with the singer in question, following a performance of something quite different. I asked what her parents had made of her performance in Powder Her Face. She said she'd ensured that her father at least had not seen it |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
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« Reply #7 on: 22:20:41, 28-03-2008 » |
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Surely there are no pedants on this board, Ruth? I suppose it's not the 'title role' as such, although the title does contain a personal pronoun (or adjective, depending which grammar book you read  ) referring to the character in question. It's the 'Face' I have trouble remembering, to be honest. We always called it 'Nose'. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #8 on: 22:22:45, 28-03-2008 » |
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We always called it 'Nose'.
'We'?? |
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #9 on: 22:25:37, 28-03-2008 » |
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We always called it 'Nose'.
Isn't that Shostakovich?  |
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« Reply #10 on: 22:40:46, 28-03-2008 » |
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It's the 'Face' I have trouble remembering, to be honest. We always called it 'Nose'.
Then maybe "we" were powdering an unduly small area of flesh... |
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« Reply #11 on: 22:48:16, 28-03-2008 » |
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We always called it 'Nose'.
'We'?? That wasn't Sydney dialect, honest! I'm not quite sure who I was referring to, really ... Just a general sense that there are Co-Conspirators from whom I could expect to receive a knowing wink if I called it that. |
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