tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post285346124676665603..comments2024-03-16T08:02:38.070-04:00Comments on wellsung.blogspot.com: Janáček in ChicagoAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748408812275965064noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-34526077835453004282009-12-03T20:23:58.520-05:002009-12-03T20:23:58.520-05:00My introduction to Janacek came from a Czech recor...My introduction to Janacek came from a Czech recording of Jenufa that EMI picked up and distributed in the US during the late 60s. Although the MET had brought the opera to the US with the gorgeous, charismatic Maria Jeritza, the opera was killed by the Times critic of the day as being filled with undesirables and unbelievables--he was virulently anti-realism. (His hatched job on La Boheme on essentially the same grounds did not, however, have the same effect). <br /><br />In the succeeding decades I've been thrilled to see Janacek's triumphant march into the major (and many regional) opera houses everywhere. The roles are so grateful, and the man seems to have had an invincible theatrical sense.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-77730117616611200012009-12-03T13:35:32.534-05:002009-12-03T13:35:32.534-05:00Fantastic review, Alex.
I shall see Miss Mattila ...Fantastic review, Alex.<br /><br />I shall see Miss Mattila as Katya in the run's second-to-last performance. Can't wait.<br /><br />Thanks for whetting my appetite.<br /><br />OCJRDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06668174652520224455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-18258159411779050712009-12-01T10:09:59.848-05:002009-12-01T10:09:59.848-05:00Blasphemy! Oh not really, I was pretty bummed I mi...Blasphemy! Oh not really, I was pretty bummed I missed Racette's Jenufa at WNO a few years back for some stupid reason I of course don't even remember anymore. <br /><br />Marking my calendar now for that 2011 BJ Siegmund. I mean like, Janacek tenor parts are great and all, but I deeply need to see his A-game live.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15748408812275965064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-78041000834597710802009-12-01T00:29:49.943-05:002009-12-01T00:29:49.943-05:00Having heard Jovanovich twice in SF, both times in...Having heard Jovanovich twice in SF, both times in Puccini, both times with Racette, I am now hot hot hot to hear him in Jenufa or KK with Racette. And - I liked Racette's Jenufa better than Mattila's.<br /><br />If you want to hear him in a different repertory, he is singing Siegmund in the SF Ring in 2011.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.com