tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post113626141324691378..comments2024-01-24T08:24:14.555-05:00Comments on My Favorite Intermissions: I feel-ya-not (i), take IIMaury D'annatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1136325797445238142006-01-03T17:03:00.000-05:002006-01-03T17:03:00.000-05:00Do they do this kind of casting, lik, on purpose, ...Do they do this kind of casting, lik, on purpose, just to piss people off and keep them talking? Other than that type of reverse-psychology marketing ploy, I cannot fathom why any company on the planet would cast less than the best they could possibly afford. If YS were in poor vocal health, should she not bow out and let someone competent sing the role, have a chance at the spotlight?<BR/><BR/>Sheesh, does not one spend enough (or spend enough hours of his/her life studying & practicing this art) that one should be deserving of very, very good, if not excellent performances?<BR/><BR/>crikey!<BR/><BR/>ps could really use some informed opinions on Vanessa from y'all, if you've got a few minutes to pop over to my blog (please & thanks)Princess Alpenrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02745033267349506217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1136318569750426882006-01-03T15:02:00.000-05:002006-01-03T15:02:00.000-05:00I love Donizetti, but Lucia is not his best. Also,...I love Donizetti, but <I>Lucia</I> is not his best. Also, I'm now all but completely sick of the Mad Scene, with its frightful overrecordedness. I think I prefer her first aria at this point. The choruses are fun to sing and sound better than many of the other ones in opera. And you know there's a problem when a chorus is a major highlight.<BR/><BR/>Also, Fleming <I>isn't</I> going to do Lucia, I don't think--in fact, the discussion was about <I>who</I> would be singing it, and she was crossed off the list of possibilities from the start. The Interpolator apparently knows who--supposedly a <I>different</I> American superstar.Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040029403688659712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1136315311453678402006-01-03T14:08:00.000-05:002006-01-03T14:08:00.000-05:00Oh lord yes. Anna Bolena is one of the reasons I ...Oh lord yes. Anna Bolena is one of the reasons I am a card carrying member of the Cult of Callas. I listened to a yellow cassette tape of the studio version of the closing scene until it got magnetized and came unwound in my car tape deck. (And Gencer in MS? Don't get me started!)<BR/>Jeez, and there are like forty good candidates for Giovanna Seymour, right?Maury D'annatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.com