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Lord Byron
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« Reply #15 on: 12:14:38, 04-06-2007 »


darcy is COOL
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« Reply #16 on: 13:12:37, 04-06-2007 »
Thanks smittins and Reiner, I'd forgotten about Pickwick and didn't know about Canio. I've often seen an LP of Pickwick in charity shops, I ought to grab it next time!
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« Reply #17 on: 16:21:08, 28-06-2007 »
Quote from: Tony Watson on 20:41:04, 03-06-2007
To be fair, I don't think Mario Lanza ever sang a full operatic role or performed in a staged opera.
He most certainly did. He was Pinkerton and I'm sure his stage debut was in opera.
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« Reply #18 on: 23:39:30, 28-06-2007 »
Quote from: Il Grande Inquisitor on 20:30:51, 03-06-2007
I did enjoy this gem, explaining how she 'discovered' Juan Diego Florez!  Tongue

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Joining Our Kath on stage will be an up-and-coming young Peruvian tenor called Juan-Diago Florez (see photo). Katherine discovered this talented young man two years ago when he was working as a holiday rep in Ibiza and offered him the chance to become a famous opera singer like her. How kind of Our Kath to so generously help promote a young unknown artist who might never get a chance to be heard otherwise. We feel certain that Mr Florez will go on to greater things in the future but he will surely always be grateful to the beautiful Katherine for giving him his big break.

Definitely tongue-in-cheek, I think.  Smiley


Given it was Ibiza, whose tongue and whose cheek?!  Shocked
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« Reply #19 on: 20:43:34, 23-07-2007 »
Hotfoot from St Petersburg (Russia, not Florida), I can report that Catherine Jenkins not only sang in the White Nights Festival, but apparently achieved a sell-out performance,  accompanied by the Mariinsky orchestra (one of Gergiev's minions conducted).  I wasn't in town for this performance,  but a Mariinsky colleague reported the above to me.   In fact she had flown-in to replace an indisposed artiste, so she was not the billed performer - even so, she received a warm reception from the audience, my contact reported.
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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 #20 on: 21:16:57, 23-07-2007 »
Quote from: John W on 11:24:29, 04-06-2007
I don't think Secombe ever did {have a proper operatic career} and no-one ever referred to Secombe as an opera singer, mainly because he was more associated with the Goons and comedy on TV/radio,
John W
I recall my dad telling me that Harry Secombe did audition at Covent Garden but was not given work there as he was not taken seriously enough to be an opera singer. My dad has no doubt though that he had the voice to be one. Wasn't he very short and stout too? That probably didn't help matters since his voice was that of a romantic tenor.
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« Reply #21 on: 21:20:22, 23-07-2007 »
Being short, stout, and unbelievable in romantic roles has not stinted the careers of many tenors Wink
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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: 21:26:13, 23-07-2007 »
I knew someone would respond with that!  Wink
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« Reply #23 on: 21:27:34, 23-07-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 21:20:22, 23-07-2007
Being short, stout, and unbelievable in romantic roles has not stinted the careers of many tenors Wink

On the other hand, there is Ernest Newman's story about the French critic who panned a production of Lohengrin on the grounds that the singer playing Elsa "manquait de virginite"  Smiley
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