Klarinet Archive - Posting 000414.txt from 2003/09

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Tosca (Not the clarinet....)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:44:43 -0400

Elise,

Just for your information I have been to EVERY night of the Covent
Garden season so far - okay there have only been three (We start earlier
than the Met - I'll be at their opening night in the front row in two
weeks) - and see every production - often more than once. I do know the
conventions.

Did it never cross your mind that I might have been talking tongue in
cheek? (In other words I was JOKING).

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: EClarinet@-----.com]
Subject: [kl] Re: Tosca (Not the clarinet....)

In a message dated 9/15/03 3:16:14 AM EST,
klarinet-digest-help@-----.org
writes:

<< Elise wrote:

We had a huge discussion about Pavarotti on Operalist last year when he
had
to cancel his final MET Toscas because he was sick.

Surely he would have been singing Cavaradossi?

Even I would suggest he would make a better Cavaradossi than a Tosca!

Matthew
>>

Assuming that you really don't know the usual conventions, we singers
often
speak of the opera one is performing in rather than the role one is
singing,
esp. for someone like Pavarotti, when there is no question of what role
he would
be doing in that show. btw, I saw him in 1999 at the MET as
Cavaradossi,
with Ricardo Morales playing the clarinet solos in "e lucevan le
stelle", and
they made a fabulous duet. When Pavarotti came out for curtain calls,
the first
thing he did was walk to the edge of the stage and acknowledge Rick.

Elise Curran
Orlando

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