tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post256513135572189151..comments2024-03-28T12:59:05.739-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: Recording Babbitt's Music for the MassLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-65877769365582195212012-02-11T09:27:11.061-08:002012-02-11T09:27:11.061-08:00S. Radvanovsky as Tosca, Domingo is singing a bari...S. Radvanovsky as Tosca, Domingo is singing a baritone role in <i>I due Foscari</i>. Poplavaskaya the controversial is in one or the other of the operas.<br /><br />I haven't read the press release, but two Puccini operas in a six-opera season? Gaaah.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-69327562657066452592012-02-09T16:29:41.508-08:002012-02-09T16:29:41.508-08:00I see I misspelled Wingrave as Wingrove and I feel...I see I misspelled Wingrave as Wingrove and I feel obliged to state that I do know the correct name. . . .<br /><br />And actually I would go see I Due Foscari, since I've never seen it before, but I wouldn't make a trip down to LA for it. . . .Patrick J. Vazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-55849024104239986142012-02-09T16:09:14.066-08:002012-02-09T16:09:14.066-08:00PJV, saw your post over at Opera Tattler. Yes, I&...PJV, saw your post over at Opera Tattler. Yes, I'm seriously thinking about going to Philly for the <i>Owen Wingrave</i>, it's the one Britten opera I've not seen a production of. I like Ades music (<i>Asyla</i> is incredible), I need to get his <i>The Tempest</i>. <br /><br />If they wanted to do "popular" Britten, why not do <i>Grimes, Billy Budd</i> and <i>The Dream</i>? They've done them all before, but that doesn't seem to be a problem.Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-17742509277406057802012-02-09T15:40:23.212-08:002012-02-09T15:40:23.212-08:00Henry,
Have you seen the Opera Company of Philadel...Henry,<br />Have you seen the Opera Company of Philadelphia's next season? Owen Wingrove (with the Curtis School). Also Powder Her Face (I don't remember if Ades is a composer you like).Patrick J. Vazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-36632735696773315822012-02-09T15:00:56.481-08:002012-02-09T15:00:56.481-08:00I know you'll have a LAO season annoucement po...I know you'll have a LAO season annoucement post soon, I just need to vent (posted at Parterre Box):<br /><br />***<br /><br />Damn I can't wait until that ego maniac Domingo leaves Los Angeles Opera, it can't happen a moment too soon. The entire, dreary beyond imagination season for 2012-13:<br /><br />I Due Foscari (is that even third rate Verdi?)<br />Don Giovanni (5th time in the company's 26 year history? 6th?)<br />Butterfly (it must be the 7,342nd time in 26 years or it just seems that way)<br />Fliegende Hollander<br />La Cenerentola<br />Tosca (see Butterfly comment)<br /><br />The LA Times was skimpy on casting. <br /><br />Domingo: "I'm looking for tenor parts and some new baritone parts," said Domingo, 71. "I'm also looking for parts closer to my age. All the young lovers tend to be tenors."<br /><br />Oh just retire already, you scabby old rat bag (tm Basil Fawlty) or f**ck off back to Spain.<br /><br />So, the Britten cycle gets the usual incompetent LAO treatment, as does the Recovered Voices project: <br /><i>But the new season won't feature any Britten operas on the main stage. The company said it was a question of balance and finding operas more popular with audiences</i><br /><br />Hmmmmm.....maybe if this morons running this once-interesting company hadn't nearly driven it over a cliff with a Ring that nobody was really clamoring for and alienated a good chunk of the people that were, they could afford to finish the damn projects that they themselves launch with a huge amount of back-patting and publicity and then drown like Jenufa's baby through incompetence.<br /><br />Gah, die LA Opera, just die. Nobody will care any more.Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.com