Re: Netrebko out of Rigoletto broadcast tomorrow

grndpadave@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Non e vero !
>
> But this about the worst performance I've ever heard of this opera.

I've heard worse, but I wouldn't want this preserved.

> Villazon is the only half-way decent member of the cast.
>
> Wobbles abound.

I saw that coming the minute I heard the names of C. Guelfi and
Halfvarson announced.

> And Netrebko is flat much of the time.

She's much better today than she is on that new live TRAVIATA from
Vienna, which should never have been released commercially. There, she
barely seems able to get through four notes without breaking the line
to take a breath, often in such an ungainly way that it makes her
fractionally late when she resumes; and the first time through "Addio
del passato" she ends on a note so flat that I thought I must have
hallucinated it. (On the repeat, she comes closer but still isn't quite
up to pitch.) There's been a lot of talk about the pros and cons of
"artifically sweetening" recordings of live performances to correct
peformers' cracks and pitch problems and the like; I can't believe DG
didn't do more of it in this case. The product as released does credit
to no one's reputation, except maybe the VPO's, and theirs hardly
needed the help.

Back to RIGOLETTO, the highlight of the broadcast for me this afternoon
was the fragment of the archival interview with the witch from the 1931
HAENSEL AND GRETEL. Delightful.

Todd K

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