tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9458752.post8018152365536373935..comments2023-10-26T08:19:23.900-04:00Comments on an unamplified voice: Going bigJSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02477558636942883735noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9458752.post-69423273240384385262013-01-11T20:19:40.888-05:002013-01-11T20:19:40.888-05:00Incidentally, please choose a name (with Name/URL)...Incidentally, please choose a name (with Name/URL) or sign your posts... it's hard to keep all the Anonymice straight.JSUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02477558636942883735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9458752.post-72023219241458935732013-01-11T20:17:11.072-05:002013-01-11T20:17:11.072-05:00"'scuzi, but isn't getting the rhythm..."'scuzi, but isn't getting the rhythms right,<br />singing the big top notes and being musical what these people are PAID to do? Isn't that why we pay to see them?"<br /><br />No, I'm afraid it's not. We pay to see (parts of) a good overall opera performance. That can, and ideally should, include all of the above, but can also exclude any -- and in some rare cases all -- of them. Pointing to one imperfect part in order to write off an entire effort is silly: not only are we imperfect humans, but art is the creation of a whole, not the hitting of a series of marks. (I know, I know, I'll never get to be Merker.)<br /><br />Analogy: Miguel Cabrera is paid to hit, but he can have good days even while making outs half the time.<br /><br />The shouting stuff should be clear from context and the blog archives. They were loud singers who sang loudly (but not, most of the time, un-mellifluously), and fed off of the others doing so as well. It was, as a reader emailed me this morning, thrilling and grand.JSUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02477558636942883735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9458752.post-6366311172705779482013-01-11T19:18:55.372-05:002013-01-11T19:18:55.372-05:00"it was easy to overlook his getting tangled ..."it was easy to overlook his getting tangled up in the rhythms of his initial scene end, and Russian baritone Alexey Markov ... missing only big top notes... It's all pretty musical now"<br /><br />'scuzi, but isn't getting the rhythms right, <br />singing the big top notes and being musical what these people are PAID to do? Isn't that why we pay to see them? <br /><br />And if it sounded to you like "shouting" then maybe it really was shouting, especially if you see no middle ground between that and Ms. Racette.<br /><br />I didn't see the performance...I just don't understand your opinions. <br />Alternatively, excuse me if your entire post was meant to be sarcastic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com