Maybe DV didn't want to ring out the shabby old Schenk and thought it'd be more glamorous to ring in the new? Or maybe she decided to can it with this "I can sing in Italian, too," thing she's doing when her Salome was a triumph and her Tosca, well, not so. (Admits a true admirer of hers.)
I can't say I'm waiting for Hep B's Siegfried with bated breath...
Could there be some intrigue here about the outgoing GM's favors to the new? Gelb is tapped for the spot well before it becomes public. He knows the new Ring will be a defining moment of his tenure. He asks Volpe to release Voigt from the Last Schenk Show so that she can add (reduced) heft to the LePageungen; she claims Brunnhilde aversion; and then she triumphantly returns once Gelb's hand is firmly on the wheel? Granted, I totally don't know how any of these things actually work.
More to the point. Why does Hep B even want the performance S-fried? It just doesn't play to his strengths at all! Hep B at his best has the lyric + heft thing in spades. But that's a far cry from the Siegrfried Ironman tenor thing. Why Hep B? Why? Nightmares of a Siegrfried b-cast a la the Lohengrin b-cast commence now. 'Twould be the filth to end all filth, to be sure.
Oh speaking of Russians, why not Galuzin I wonder. Biggest tenor voice I've heard at the Met, and people sometimes find it ill contained in Italian music. Sometimes just the thing for German music, that kind of voice.
Alex said: Why does Hep B even want the performance S-fried? It just doesn't play to his strengths at all! Hep B at his best has the lyric + heft thing in spades.
Were we separated at birth, or do great minds just think alike? Exactly my response--not that it's not interesting to hear Siegfried done more lyric, and the role does have some great parts that the Ironmen bulldozer over, but the balance of the role is not in his favor. And it's LONG. It's not short and high and scary but mostly (strangely) lyric like Kaiser.
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Maybe DV didn't want to ring out the shabby old Schenk and thought it'd be more glamorous to ring in the new? Or maybe she decided to can it with this "I can sing in Italian, too," thing she's doing when her Salome was a triumph and her Tosca, well, not so. (Admits a true admirer of hers.)
I can't say I'm waiting for Hep B's Siegfried with bated breath...
Could there be some intrigue here about the outgoing GM's favors to the new? Gelb is tapped for the spot well before it becomes public. He knows the new Ring will be a defining moment of his tenure. He asks Volpe to release Voigt from the Last Schenk Show so that she can add (reduced) heft to the LePageungen; she claims Brunnhilde aversion; and then she triumphantly returns once Gelb's hand is firmly on the wheel? Granted, I totally don't know how any of these things actually work.
More to the point. Why does Hep B even want the performance S-fried? It just doesn't play to his strengths at all! Hep B at his best has the lyric + heft thing in spades. But that's a far cry from the Siegrfried Ironman tenor thing. Why Hep B? Why? Nightmares of a Siegrfried b-cast a la the Lohengrin b-cast commence now. 'Twould be the filth to end all filth, to be sure.
Who else tho? Botha? Me say Notha. I heard the Russian guy making the rounds with the Kirov at least looks the part.
Oh speaking of Russians, why not Galuzin I wonder. Biggest tenor voice I've heard at the Met, and people sometimes find it ill contained in Italian music. Sometimes just the thing for German music, that kind of voice.
Alex said: Why does Hep B even want the performance S-fried? It just doesn't play to his strengths at all! Hep B at his best has the lyric + heft thing in spades.
Were we separated at birth, or do great minds just think alike? Exactly my response--not that it's not interesting to hear Siegfried done more lyric, and the role does have some great parts that the Ironmen bulldozer over, but the balance of the role is not in his favor. And it's LONG. It's not short and high and scary but mostly (strangely) lyric like Kaiser.
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