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Bounty Hunter Takes His Skills to the Met Stage
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 07, 2011, 02:28:32 pm ---Whut is a Fanciulla, anyway. Sounds kinda disreputable.
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--- Quote from: southendmd on January 07, 2011, 02:47:46 pm ---It means "girl" LOL.
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You sure it don't mean fancy lady, er sumthin'? ::)
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 07, 2011, 03:01:54 pm ---You sure it don't mean fancy lady, er sumthin'? ::)
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It does sound kind of like that, Jeff, especially when she's from the West. Miss Kitty comes to mind. ;D
I didn't report on the opera performance. Carl did really well, sounded beautiful in the Met auditorium. He didn't seem to suffer from nerves, either. Before the show my agent and I used our clout and went to eat downstairs in the Met dining room. Carl came by and chatted with us, and he said he was supposed to have about 70 people showing up to see him! However, with a full 20 inches of snow already on the streets and transportation at a near standstill, there was some doubt they'd all make it.
The production of Fanciulla has a big, roomy bi-level saloon for the first act, a cozy cabin surrounded by a snowy forest for the second act, and the main street of a beat-up mining town for the last act. In Act II, both Minnie and Johnson (Carl's character) enter riding horses, which are then taken offstage. The blizzard onstage got a few chuckles, since it perfectly mirrored the weather outside. ;D
After the show I went backstage, and there were so many friends of Carl's that they opened up the green room and let him hold court in there. It's not too big, but it held most of us. I think there were at least 50 or 60 people. And who should come in via a wheelchair pushed by a nice-looking young man, wearing a mink coat and hat, but Celeste Holm? (I looked it up: she's 93!) You never know who knows who in this biz. Pretty neat! 8)
Jeff Wrangler:
Sounds like a high-class entertaining evening, Meryl! :D
And Celeste Holm still gets out at 93! :D
milomorris:
Celeste Holm!?!?!? WOW!! You're right, you never know who's out there in the house while you're wailing away onstage.
I don't know Carl (at least not by his name), but I do know a few of singers who have worked with him in various houses over the years. His voice is indeed glorious from what little I have heard.
Good for him on the Met debut. He's worked hard for a long time to deserve this.
delalluvia:
I saw the title of this thread and thought,
"Dog the Bounty Hunter is going to the Met?!?!" :laugh: :laugh:
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