tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post114807731560428303..comments2024-01-24T08:24:14.555-05:00Comments on My Favorite Intermissions: Talk about your out of town tryouts!Maury D'annatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148920659987788252006-05-29T11:37:00.000-05:002006-05-29T11:37:00.000-05:00What does an airline tx cost round trip to the Can...What does an airline tx cost round trip to the Canary Islands, anyway?Princess Alpenrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02745033267349506217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148569577679299432006-05-25T10:06:00.000-05:002006-05-25T10:06:00.000-05:00No wonder I didn't recognize it.No wonder I didn't recognize it.Maury D'annatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148528225325779212006-05-24T22:37:00.000-05:002006-05-24T22:37:00.000-05:00Twas a quote from Forza.Twas a quote from Forza.JSUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02477558636942883735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148337887804647302006-05-22T17:44:00.000-05:002006-05-22T17:44:00.000-05:00Caro Muori,they're hundreds of miles from any size...Caro Muori,<BR/><BR/><I>they're hundreds of miles from any sizeable opera-loving public, aren't they?</I><BR/><BR/>I've not yet been to Las Palmas, but I hear tell that the public is both passionate and discerning. And with Ryanair and the like, what's a few hundred miles for rabid <I>florezidos</I> and friends?<BR/><BR/>xxo, v.f.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148305616678874932006-05-22T08:46:00.000-05:002006-05-22T08:46:00.000-05:00Chere Fille, well I don't mean to call it a backwa...Chere Fille, well I don't mean to call it a backwater exactly, it's just...they're hundreds of miles from any sizeable opera-loving public, aren't they? I guess perhaps it's simply comparable to trying out a role at Santa Fe. If Santa Fe were surrounded by water, and off the coast of another continent. I'm really not being Americocentric here, though I do love my Met. It's just they treat some artists a lot better than others. Listen, when you and I and a few of our blogger friends run the joint...Maury D'annatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148299423890364882006-05-22T07:03:00.000-05:002006-05-22T07:03:00.000-05:00Caro Maury: Don Juan Diego, by design, makes many ...Caro Maury: Don Juan Diego, by design, makes many role debuts at Las Palmas, because it is associated with Alfredo Kraus. (He told me, "I know he is protecting me.") Young Peppino Filianoti, too, recently sang his first Werthers there and said, "Yes, my Maestro's theatre - it is a *big* responsibility." Which is to say, Las Palmas is not at all a backwater. Rather, I think, the backwaters are the houses that give us artists of Radvanovsky's caliber as, say, Rosalinda instead of Lucrezia Borgia, Maria Stuarda, Norma...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148189306559145792006-05-21T00:28:00.000-05:002006-05-21T00:28:00.000-05:00At long last I have discovered the secret of makin...At long last I have discovered the secret of making it through NYRB articles: just read the last paragraph.Maury D'annatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148157477590604472006-05-20T15:37:00.000-05:002006-05-20T15:37:00.000-05:00Martin Fuller, writing in the NYRB last Decemeber,...Martin Fuller, writing in the NYRB last Decemeber, <A HREF="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18554" REL="nofollow">does not like Calatrava</A>.Grrghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03411931791000663919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148127129144373362006-05-20T07:12:00.000-05:002006-05-20T07:12:00.000-05:00Yup, Sondra will be great as Lucrezia. I have hear...Yup, Sondra will be great as Lucrezia. I have heard she is keen to do MARIA STUARDA as well and though the Met won't do it, how about Queler or Collegiate Chorale? Eva Podles singing the "Tourangeau" version of Elisabetta, and Eric Cutler as Leicester...<BR/><BR/>Vamos Sondra!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148094851637625892006-05-19T22:14:00.000-05:002006-05-19T22:14:00.000-05:00You don't like Calatrava? Everyone likes Calatrav...You don't like Calatrava? Everyone likes Calatrava.Maury D'annatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148093093557516472006-05-19T21:44:00.000-05:002006-05-19T21:44:00.000-05:00Calatrava? Mai! Mai!Calatrava? Mai! Mai!JSUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02477558636942883735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1148089532081850082006-05-19T20:45:00.000-05:002006-05-19T20:45:00.000-05:00Yeah, they've got a fabulous new Santiago Calatrav...Yeah, they've got a fabulous new Santiago Calatrava opera house...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com