tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post5596100291146255743..comments2024-03-16T08:02:38.070-04:00Comments on wellsung.blogspot.com: WNO AnnouncesAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748408812275965064noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-11006829255465307082012-03-24T13:41:51.677-04:002012-03-24T13:41:51.677-04:00Um, since Meade could be her daughter by a very co...Um, since Meade could be her daughter by a very comfortable margin, perhaps they have some kind of daytime talk show-esque "a cougar stole my man" angle in mind?<br /><br />Seriously tho...while we try not to look gift-Zajicks in the mouth in DC these days, the point is well-taken...Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15748408812275965064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-43880246888407768402012-03-24T10:14:48.876-04:002012-03-24T10:14:48.876-04:00I love Ms Zajick and her tremendous instrument eno...I love Ms Zajick and her tremendous instrument enormously (the proper adverb, I believe, for the lady), BUT a sixty year old massively-voiced dramatic mezzo is thoroughly inappropriate casting for Adagisa. Yes, I know all about the long "tradition" of this sort of casting but Bellini wrote the role for a young, light lyric soprano as a foil for the more mature and dramatic Norma. Elena Obraztsova was thoroughly grotesque in the roe at the MET; bless Ms Zajick, but she is so far from "what the composer intended" that I wonder why audiences who insist that productions should follow the composers intentions exactly don't protest.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.com