wow, she's got quite a bit of vibrato.. you know it's hard to get introduced to this via A.Harteros.. because you always hear everything else afterward! for example only now I realize how difficult to carry through this, esp. the phrasing! she's through with the first huuuuuge stretch!
On the other hand, this may be the least gutless performance I've heard all week...at least AM is fully in the game, which is more than I can say for anyone in the Werther I was just listening to.
Given her native latitude, with Garanca it's probably more boredom than temp. And boredom is contagious. She should quit that role. Anyway, everybody's waiting for JDD's.
Can't speak to what happened in Chicago, it was Koch/Majeski/Landshamer. You all probably know them better than I do. All I can say is it's a rare day when I rip and delete.
ah now i remember seeing it adver on worldconcerthall.. back to Werther, you know i heard it's a very pleasant role to sing for mezzo... but i think perhaps the difficult thing is to get the audience to feel it.. coz it's kind of moving along at a really slow pace.. and if you "see" the acting you get it more than just listening. As for DerR, i still remembering VK with her crescent-moon bando :D
I dunno, Massenet's orchestration puts the drama pretty much up in the audience's grill. The first half may go a little glacially, but by the second half Charlotte needs to pony up some dramatic commitment. If by act 3 a mezzo can't manage to sound like the seething mass of conflict the orchestra is telling us she is, it's time for that mezzo to step off...in my humble opinion LOL
Unless your director is Andrei Serban, of course, conceiving of Charlotte as 1950's suburban housewife bored soulless. If that's the case, Garanca is entirely the mezzo for the job. But that was 2005. Maybe she got stuck there.
melikes! audio is great! (speaking of audio, i just found out the danish radio channel did archive NS singing Mahler in case you'd like to take a detour and listen to her. I quite enjoyed Mahler (please excuse my knowledge, but it "sounds" like DerR :D :D )
more off topic, i just read some crazy spring-time weather is now invading east coast? must admit am really missing the fun! here i now bike to work in t-shirt if you can believe
urgh, a bit related to the topic... we all missed D.Röschmann singing Mahler yesterday... and while trying my Catalonian i found the re-listen of the MET trovatore instead.. (in case you want to re-listen :D )
no i was hunting around but couldn't locate... and then got distracted fighting the world (winds and ocean this time! ) so had to abandon search, but will go bug earworm later when all deadlines pass..
wow. i have to forward this to the friend who's going to see them live singing this!!
ReplyDeleteps- and i just saw she (A.Meade) is singing Leonora (?) in Trovatore at the MET this sat, with radio broadcast :-)
ReplyDeleteYes, and with a cast of people I've mostly never heard, so should be interesting :)
Deletedarn it, i already 1.5 hour late??? argh! why do they have to sing so early!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure you're really missing anything :-/ But you may have some options if you want to hear the whole thing. Stand by.
Deletewow, she's got quite a bit of vibrato.. you know it's hard to get introduced to this via A.Harteros.. because you always hear everything else afterward! for example only now I realize how difficult to carry through this, esp. the phrasing! she's through with the first huuuuuge stretch!
DeleteOn the other hand, this may be the least gutless performance I've heard all week...at least AM is fully in the game, which is more than I can say for anyone in the Werther I was just listening to.
DeleteOn the other other hand, Giordani and his wandering pitches XP
Deleteand the prompter has a bullhorn
i also noticed even A.Meade has some of her pitches wandering :-) . who was in Werther? were you aiming for the tenor or the mezzo? :-)
DeleteGaranca and Beczala, comment applies to both. This follows on from the LOC's zero-chemistry Rosenkavalier earlier in the week.
DeleteNot to be a seething mass of negativity or anything :-P
oh, pretty boy is now singing that role? were they both also in chicago? may be the the temperature is getting to all of them :D
DeleteGiven her native latitude, with Garanca it's probably more boredom than temp. And boredom is contagious. She should quit that role. Anyway, everybody's waiting for JDD's.
DeleteCan't speak to what happened in Chicago, it was Koch/Majeski/Landshamer. You all probably know them better than I do. All I can say is it's a rare day when I rip and delete.
ah now i remember seeing it adver on worldconcerthall.. back to Werther, you know i heard it's a very pleasant role to sing for mezzo... but i think perhaps the difficult thing is to get the audience to feel it.. coz it's kind of moving along at a really slow pace.. and if you "see" the acting you get it more than just listening.
DeleteAs for DerR, i still remembering VK with her crescent-moon bando :D
I dunno, Massenet's orchestration puts the drama pretty much up in the audience's grill. The first half may go a little glacially, but by the second half Charlotte needs to pony up some dramatic commitment. If by act 3 a mezzo can't manage to sound like the seething mass of conflict the orchestra is telling us she is, it's time for that mezzo to step off...in my humble opinion LOL
DeleteUnless your director is Andrei Serban, of course, conceiving of Charlotte as 1950's suburban housewife bored soulless. If that's the case, Garanca is entirely the mezzo for the job. But that was 2005. Maybe she got stuck there.
On the other hand, I came up in a mostly audio opera world, so it may just be that I gravitate to singers who are good voice actors.
Deletemelikes! audio is great!
Delete(speaking of audio, i just found out the danish radio channel did archive NS singing Mahler in case you'd like to take a detour and listen to her. I quite enjoyed Mahler (please excuse my knowledge, but it "sounds" like DerR :D :D )
There's a reason for that, as explained by Soho the Dog.
DeleteThanks for the link!
ha! so my ears are intact! :D :D
Deleteon perpendicular news.. some "good" stuff happening in texas this morning (!) , perhaps obama can shove in a justice in his last year you think?
ReplyDeleteNo, but it'll distract the GOP, and the Dems, if they're smart, will figure out way to exploit that.
Deletemore off topic, i just read some crazy spring-time weather is now invading east coast? must admit am really missing the fun! here i now bike to work in t-shirt if you can believe
ReplyDeleteYes I can believe. And yes, it was -11 here over the weekend and today it was 56. Tomorrow things get normalish for a while maybe :)
Deleteurgh, a bit related to the topic... we all missed D.Röschmann singing Mahler yesterday... and while trying my Catalonian i found the re-listen of the MET trovatore instead.. (in case you want to re-listen :D )
DeleteAh thanks, will see if it's worth another spin :)
DeleteAny luck finding the DR? Earworm tweeted the link yesterday, so maybe she [ahem] knows where it may be found.
no i was hunting around but couldn't locate... and then got distracted fighting the world (winds and ocean this time! ) so had to abandon search, but will go bug earworm later when all deadlines pass..
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