tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984873659848293247.post7463046351012939863..comments2023-06-30T05:52:34.566-05:00Comments on Yankeediva: Sublime SurrealityYankeedivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01582739956422004397noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984873659848293247.post-30873674347259670682010-08-21T11:30:45.538-05:002010-08-21T11:30:45.538-05:00I am glad to read that BBC Radio 3 will broadcast ...I am glad to read that BBC Radio 3 will broadcast IDOMENEO from the Edinburgh International Festival at 6pm on Saturday 18 September!!Klassikfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08477649275704580375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984873659848293247.post-38917121150594085402010-08-21T08:29:01.090-05:002010-08-21T08:29:01.090-05:00As a kindergarten teacher, I am well- versed in th...As a kindergarten teacher, I am well- versed in the hazards of "petites toilets"! Sounds like a wonderful experience, though. I never tire of reading such beautifully written words about another person's passion. Thank you!pesce42https://www.blogger.com/profile/00778798476415860414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984873659848293247.post-25714348970478654062010-08-20T19:38:20.843-05:002010-08-20T19:38:20.843-05:00Idomeneo was superb - a good tribute to Sir Charle...Idomeneo was superb - a good tribute to Sir Charles indeed - and I look forward to Sunday's recital. <br />I was at your 'Conversation' earlier this week and was very moved by your words to the young singer in the front row. I am an 'older' singer in the Edinburgh Festival Chorus (as opposed to the SCO Chorus of tonight's performance). I have never taken any ability I mtgbloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11127386848360450155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984873659848293247.post-78399020178519271372010-08-20T17:20:56.527-05:002010-08-20T17:20:56.527-05:00A penguin at the opera # 3:
Vienna 2006 - Staatsop...A penguin at the opera # 3:<br />Vienna 2006 - Staatsoper - Romeo et Juliette (Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón): A distinguished English gentleman, sitting in a "Loge"/box next to me, held a large, inflated plastic penguin in his hands! At curtain calls he stood up and threw it down onto the stage. Villazón picked it up, and he and Anna Netrebko put it between them when they took Klassikfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08477649275704580375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984873659848293247.post-73719185196191838822010-08-20T10:36:07.973-05:002010-08-20T10:36:07.973-05:00More penguins! I recently saw stuffed penguins be...More penguins! I recently saw stuffed penguins being tossed about during the party scene in a <i>Don Giovanni</i> in Munich, and included a comment about it in a blog post. Now the use of penguins in opera has become a running joke among my friends. May I link to your post?Taminophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07398791534949522900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984873659848293247.post-47223965507261024062010-08-20T09:08:22.637-05:002010-08-20T09:08:22.637-05:00Brilliant post again, Joyce. Rehearsing under pape...Brilliant post again, Joyce. Rehearsing under paper penguins must be indeed surreal, but hey you have a trouser role, a perfect match to the surroundings.<br />Maybe next year the Ed. festival can have performances in some of the rehearsal spaces they use. I'd find it really interesting having a traditionally staged opera in the round...in a school gym, or a disused council building. In a Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14289972289821190280noreply@blogger.com