Comments on: Wings of desire

By: rml

rml — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:07:50 +0000

Thank you very much – you are most welcome!

By: puritymccall

puritymccall — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:22:00 +0000

Just stumbled on your site and wanted to say thank you for all these great reviews… such a rich site, I suspect I’ll be visiting often judging by the huge amount of material you have created. Really appreciate your thoughtful balancing of criticism with humanity! So unlike a lot of the stuff in the opera blogsphere.

By: rml

rml — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:37:57 +0000

You know I’ve written the Margaret Price thing to tease you – but the truth is that Waltraud Meier’s vocal tonal quality was very (maybe too) lyric for the role that evening. Instead of forcing it, she just “surrendered” to that fact and opted for a “cantabile” rather than declamatory style, with detours involved in almost every exposed dramatic note, especially in act I. On the other hand, we agree about Barenboim, but I will say “definitely” after I have seen Thielemann conduct that live.

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:51:04 +0000

Wie so “a Margareth-Price like approach” ???? Great review, though (except for the Margareth Price comparison)… I envy you profoundly right now. Tristan with Baremboim is as good as it gets these days. Hope I will have the same luck in April, when the same cast (almost the same, anyway) is schedule for the Festwochen.