“venera gimadieva nude”, Tito in Aspen and other news from the cave
the nudes …another eyebrow-raising search engine term. Dear reader, I must disappoint you. I actually had to google Ms Gimadieva’s images as I had only a vague idea of how she looked (= brunette). Less of an idea about her in the nude 😉 but I can see how those who like typical Russian features might dig further (and they will have to, I don’t have any related pictures stashed around this blog).
the cave. I’m in the cave because I’ve been struck by ear blockage, which prevented me from going to see Spyres and El-Khoury yesterday. So much for giving Spyres another chance. After some in-house work on my ears I’m crossing my fingers Gerhaher projects tonight because I don’t want to miss him as well now that I finally chanced on a ticket to see him in recital. You see how fate keeps trying to stop me from seeing him?
Tito. It’s been a while, eh? But you might remember it’s not long now that Tito will return to Glyndebourne and the Proms, so there will be a lot of Tito talk around here, like in the good old days.
In the meanwhile, somebody graciously informed me that the Aspen Music Festival is running three Tito dates this August, so if you can get there check it out. I would love to see Tito in that kind of landscape (I’m from a mountain town myself).
Woman at Ground Zero. The show happened on Thursday, before my blocked ear wahala. I loved it! It’s the kind of contemporary opera project I can happily get behind. Post to come.
The Love for Three Oranges. Just for fun 🙂
…just before I ate the one on the left
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Posted on July 15, 2017, in 1001 musings on la clemenza di tito, 20th century, contemporary operas, mozart, sopranos and tagged aspen music festival, christian gerhaher, la clemenza di tito, michael spyres, venera gimadieva, woman at ground zero. Bookmark the permalink. 17 Comments.
opera, innit? 
(i had another dream we were comparing notes on your computer speakers and my external ones! cant remember which Tito versions though, but were exhanging comments on Vitellia’s first aria)
you must’ve been very impressed with my computer speakers 😉
jeah, super warm sound! not like the headache inducing ringing ones on mine!
perhaps the most surprisingly positive attribute of this Lenovo! To think I bought it as second choice.
(ps2- i was probing for Bartoli’s Ariodante.. but only €260 tix avail! we might wait until LaBartoli bring the show to Paris? she seems to do so with her past show Norma and Alcina..)
good thinking! Another reason to go to Paris 😉
jeah. €460 tickets in Salzburg! man people must be filthy rich! (well, although if you think about it, if you paid that and saw the Tito, it’s a lifetime experience 😉 )
it’s a good thing I wasn’t into opera in 2003, I didn’t have €460 to my name let alone to spend in Salzburg. But with me now and knowing what I know now, hells yea!
Nobody has mentioned this Musica interview, so I’ll paste the link in case you haven’t seen it. Mamma mia! I didn’t think Bartoli was ever this radical, and at age 50. Notice at 3:06 on the time bar: she’s singing coloratura with a cigar in her mouth!
http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/13/ariodante-a-salzburg-production-as-unsettling-as-it-is-moving
Very interesting. Hope she brings it to Paris. I’m not the biggest fan of VW’s Orlando but I do like the premise and I think there is merit in linking it to Ariodante.
(still lurking on Barath’s post)
I’m sure you are! it will come.
🙂
Re: Tito in Aspen: “…the Aspen Music Festival is running three Tito dates this August, so if you can get there check it out. I would love to see Tito in that kind of landscape (I’m from a mountain town myself)”—If you ever come this far west, be sure to see something at the Santa Fe Opera (www.santafeopera.org). World-class opera at a lovely venue in the high desert.
;-D sounds quite exotic! Who knows, maybe I will one day.
News of another Tito (ish): https://promenadeoperaproject.com/justice-or-mercy/
Quite interesting! I like the idea of these immersive productions, they did a Monteverdi Orfeo here a few years back but I couldn’t go. As long as they stay true to the libretto, more power to them 🙂 Also I like that Annio and Sesto are girls in the nowadays/English version.