Wednesday, October 7, 2015

more of the same except less of it

Just back from Met HD Il Trovatore (2015) encore . Opinion hasn't changed since the last time.*

Oh, and **

*except we're using walnut hull-based cat litter now, so the concrete effect was just about concrete, and about as interesting as it is possible for concrete to be without doing something interesting with it.

** If you're going to insist on identifying Dmitri Hvorostovsky as "the baritone with a brain tumor" (NYT, I am looking at you) as opposed to more traditional descriptors like "the baritone with the voice like X" or "the baritone with the Hair", then the end result of the blood oath for some in the audience will be to ponder the Count di Luna's platelet levels when we're supposed to be focusing on the dust-up in the nunnery. It is not the lede of this story. You are not the NY Post. Resist the temptation, you ghouls.

4 comments:

  1. re: baritone with the Hair - to be fair, quite a few baritones go for the shaved head look these days... or is it CTs I'm thinking of?

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    1. Yes, this is why every reference to it should be capitalized.

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  2. We should just start calling him Glam Hair Baritone. It's quite a mane he's got.

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    1. Even were it to go away, it would still be there in spirit.

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