Tuesday, April 01, 2008

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I bought a ticket last May for Baden Baden and now feel that I cannot afford this. The dollar has dropped like a stone and my taxes were terrible. Cecilia will have to sing without me. There's supposed to be a recording coming out soon, and I will have to settle for that.

So I'm going to New York to see some operas instead for a lot less money.
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pity that you didn´t make it. I attended both performances in the 3000 seat hall and it was an unparalleld triumph (unparalleled in this repertoire). Cecilia'singing was just glorious in all its shades , and she was the musical and dramatic core of the night. You might have reconsidered your judging her singing as "wispyness and fragility".

Richard

5:43 AM
Dr.B said...

I will probably be sorry, may already be sorry. I love her madly. Still.
If I said she was wispy or fragile, I don't remember. I know her voice was not too robust at the Barbican, but I attributed this to her illness.

4:07 PM
Dr.B said...

I have clearly been mistaken for someone else. I've always heard Bruhnhilde in Cecilia's voice. Well, maybe not....

I have absolutely no recollection of ever applying "wispyness and fragility" to her singing. I complained that she sometimes sings softer than I like. I don't like singers to dimenuendo below a certain level. This is just personal taste. She has plenty of power when she wants to use it.

I've seen her in lots of venues, and she always fills the hall, with the exception of DC. But then Renee Fleming couldn't fill the Kennedy Concert Hall either. It's a crappy space.

5:18 PM
Anonymous said...

Don't think I mistook you for somebody else.
You described her voice today (Barbican 20079 by using the terms "wispyness and fragility" in comparison to her early Canadian performances in 1991 after having discovered and mentioned the TV clips of those concerts on youtube.

Richard

7:49 AM
Dr.B said...

I'm not trying to be argumentative but I don't see that the word "wispiness" appears anywhere in my blog. Perhaps I said this in a comment. I could only find that I had called Beverly Sills' voice fragile. I remember a comment I made that I can't find. I'll keep looking.
I regret that I didn't go. I said she was still recovering from illness at the barbican whatever adjectives I may have used.

5:28 PM
Dr.B said...

Look, anything is possible. I quite often say things that I don't want preserved forever. That may be why I can't find this. I probably didn't like it and took it down. Assuming I actually said it. I'm sure that in the same comment I made sure to mention that I was talking about the effects of her cold and not making some kind of generic derrogatory comment. Since I decided to take it down, why do you insist on bringing it back?

5:42 PM
Anonymous said...

Memory is a tricky thing indeed: check k-confessions 9 feb 2009.

12:42 PM
Dr.B said...

Now isn't that interesting. This is an entire blog that I have since taken down. I will meditate on this for a moment. Remarks made on the internet live forever, apparently.

12:58 PM

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