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 Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:04 pm |
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New! Margherita Ruffino, whose repertoire also included Lucia di
Lammermoor (!) adds a little verismo to the Judgement Scene from
Aida.
Rita Gorr, at a Dallas I rehearsal, yells at Mario del Monaco for
being out of costume.
The famous "Dristan und Isolde" -- where Jon Vickers tells the
audience (Dallas again..maybe it is the climate?) to "shut up with
your damn coughing!"
Franco Bonisolli, famous for his outbursts, calls for "Wasser" just
before he takes the first high C in "Di Quella pira" in a Hamburg
performance. I guess they brought it to him, because he then unleashes
a mighty one! (after some booing)
I attended a City Opera Cavalleria once, in which a fellow in the
audience hated the scenery and yelled, "That's not Sicily, you
morons!"
Poor Risė Stevens! She sprained her arm playing tennis, and during the
third act of a broadcast Met Carmen, Giuseppe di Stefano twisted it so
badly that it broke! You can hear her saying, "Put my arm down!" as
clear as can be. (An aside to this is that I was supposed to go to see
Risė the next day, since we had our annual music club meeting , and my
friends has planned a surprise party for me when I arrived back
home..well, no Risė club meeting..thanks to Pippo...so how would they
get me out of the house? They finally convinced me to see her when she
came from the doctor..and so the party did take place..but Mr.Di
Stefano almost screwed up my life!)
Montserrat Caballé faints halfway through a rendition of "Addio del
passato" in 1972 at the Paris Opera. But give her credit at least for
trying! Five years later, when she canceled the opening night of
Turandot at La Scala, Maestro Zubin Mehta had to go out and announce
the bad news to the audience.
The funniest soprano in the world (yes, even funnier than Florence
Foster Jenkins), Mari Lynn, of public access television fame, reads
the letter from La Traviata..which sounds much closer to La
TraviYENTA! I played this for Diana Soviero, telling her this was a
"Violetta the likes of which she had never seen before" and she almost
fell off the couch!
More inimitable performances: Madame Lynn sings "Sempre libera"
The legendary Olive Middleton (80-something year old prima donna of La
Puma Opera) takes the optional "Kitty Carlisle" high C in the Miserere
from Trovatore
An insane lady in the City Opera audience lets out a blood-curdling
"primal scream" just before tenor Henry Price begins act two Traviata
aria.Worse than Klytaemnestra being murdered!
And speaking of screams, here's a re-engineered version of the final
scene from Tosca... |
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