Mark,
I meant Octavian in Hosenkavalier. Your points are well taken. I confess
that the only opera I *love* is Wagner, and maybe Mozart. Puccini is
getting up there and Verdi is impressing me more and more, the more I learn
-there is raw genius untramelled by taste! But then what really turns me on
is a symphony or a motet1 Chicken-Ass Song-Goo. john
At 12:57 PM 3/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
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>> Perhaps to save the CTs from fuming at this one. (though I'm sure you
will!)
>> Octavian *is* always sung by a woman. So is Baba the Turk, Cherubino etc.
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>Actually, Brian Azawa has sung Baba the Turk at San Francisco Opera and in
>one other venue (Washington?), and several years ago, David Walker had a
>contract for a Cherubino in Europe, though I don't remember where or if it
>came to pass. Octavian...now we've moved into a totally different level of
>orchestration. I do remember hearing David Daniels sing an aria from
>Rossini's Semiramide and I assumed he had made plans to assay the role,
>but ???
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>> Opera isn't just about sound, and a male presence with a sound we've come
>> to associate with female vocalism is quite appropriate for all roles
>> originally written for castrati.
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>Speak for thyself, John! (Knew that 8th grade education would come in
>handy!) Everyone has their own reasons for loving opera. For me, the
>sound is everything. I approach my vocal listening with the same tools I
>use to hear a symphony, concerto or sonata. I am looking for emotional
>honesty parlayed through beautiful tone. Chacun a son gout! (knew that
>college education would come in handy!)
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>Mark Montgomery
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John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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