tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post114815768090691164..comments2024-03-18T20:41:56.222-04:00Comments on Kinderkuchen for the FBI: Name calling, part IIDr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-1149326096114845902006-06-03T05:14:00.000-04:002006-06-03T05:14:00.000-04:00A new " Callas" is quite a tall order.I offer two ...A new " Callas" is quite a tall order.<BR/><BR/>I offer two singers I heard fairly recently who made me rememebr what it was like to be a boy again standing at the MET.<BR/><BR/>Waltraut Meier gave a riviting performance of Parsifal last month in New York. It was the "risk all" type of performance that Callas was known for.<BR/><BR/>I heard Anna Netrebko in Rigoletto in DC about five years ago. This was before she became a star. I had never heard of her, but it made quite an impression how she could place her voice in the house.<BR/>Certainly not the characterization or expressiveness of Callas, but not the plain Vanilla Gilda we usually hear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com