From GAY CITY NEWS, courtesy of one James Jorden:"Unfortunately, the gaping hole in the center of this “Butterfly” is soprano Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, whose threadbare lyric soprano could do little more than sketch in the rich Puccini vocal lines. As heard on September 30, the middle of the voice wavered constantly out of focus, and the top, though powerful enough, failed to land solidly on pitch.
These technical shortcomings might count for less if the soprano could muster consistently interesting and musical phrasing, but line after line emerged shapeless and self-indulgently slow. True, Gallardo-Domâs is an imaginative and fiercely physical actress in the Teresa Stratas mold, but all the emoting in the world is moot if the soprano can’t sing the music."
Excuse me while I go bathe in these words.
4 comments:
OK, you're an A-hole. (Or, at the least, you have major Schadenfreude "issues.")
Hooray, it's Anonymous #1! You're so excellent for readership.
I don't know that I so much have "issues" with Schadenfreude as much as a deep love for it as a philosophical concept.
Yay for trolls!
I'll be impressed when he gives Millo a similar (if rather more well-deserved) deflation.
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