Enthusiasm
Our concert season started last week with a recital by four of our singers. Next week is a concert with orchestra which I'm looking forward to immensely.
I was listening today to a Tosca performance from the Met in 1964. It was one of those performances that was legendary to Met fanatics from a certain era, because on that day Tebaldi, Barry Morrell and Tito Gobbi were scheduled for Tosca. When Rudolf Bing stepped in front of the curtain, the audience groaned, fearing that Tebaldi was cancelling. She did not, but the tenor did and in his place they heard Franco Corelli.
Now the singing was not just fabulous but primal. On a level that we rarely experience today. But I expected that. What was remarkable on that live performance was the level of involvement of the audience. Each of the three singers got prolonged ovations on their entrance and one could sense the audience's collective blood pressure rising as the temperature of the performance increased. It wasn't just the singing, but the entire experience that made that audience a very lucky one.
I was listening today to a Tosca performance from the Met in 1964. It was one of those performances that was legendary to Met fanatics from a certain era, because on that day Tebaldi, Barry Morrell and Tito Gobbi were scheduled for Tosca. When Rudolf Bing stepped in front of the curtain, the audience groaned, fearing that Tebaldi was cancelling. She did not, but the tenor did and in his place they heard Franco Corelli.
Now the singing was not just fabulous but primal. On a level that we rarely experience today. But I expected that. What was remarkable on that live performance was the level of involvement of the audience. Each of the three singers got prolonged ovations on their entrance and one could sense the audience's collective blood pressure rising as the temperature of the performance increased. It wasn't just the singing, but the entire experience that made that audience a very lucky one.
posted by Rich Russell at
8:08 PM
1 Comments:
That is so ... ULTIMATE! We all aspire to be able to create moments like that, Rich, that's for sure!
The controversy in my world (singers!) continues as we try figure out whether blogging is good for the artists' soul or virutal career hari kari.
I know you read my post "Alias-the blog not the tv show" (thank you for your comment!), and Canadienne's "Hiatus" and Anne-Carolyn's & everyone's and when you read Campbell Vertesi's make sure to click on his link to the blog post of Wolf Trap Opera's Kim Whitman called "Interlude".
Do any of the singers in your group blog a) under their own name b) under their professional name c) under an alias d) not at all?
Do you think we as a group of professionals should stop blogging entirely?
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