Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.classica
Titolo: Bravo to Maestro Riccardo Muti

"...Signor Muti has long been at odds with Signor Fontana, accusing him
of "dumbing down" the repertoire by staging popular shows such as
Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1500566,00.html

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gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby and muti deserve each other, 
kissing each other's ass, come scritto.

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Not that there is anything wrong at all with West Side Story. It just
doesn't belong at La Scala. Period.

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I am in total agreement with you, Geraldine.
REG

"Why not?"  I'll tell you why not: BECAUSE IT IS A PUSHY JEWISH
IMPOSITION. That's why.

Wasn't me. I would never use 'period' as a sentencial phrase. It's US
usage, English usage is 'full stop'.
And I'd never be so succinct.
Pinhead has a long way to go in his impersonations

 
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby the swine somehow misread the 
directions and came out of his sty. somehow eichmann misread the 
directions on the final solution and missed gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby.

 probably better.
No argument about that - but it still isn't opera.  (Or even 
"operetta", since that term implies singers who can SING, a 
term that only very loosely applies to many successful stars 
of "musicals".)
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Did Muti retire? That's about the only thing that would cause me to say
Muti and Bravo in the same sentence.
Terry Ellsworth

 Muti and Bravo in the same sentence.
Didn't you hear?
He is the new MD of the CSO.
TD

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 musical and it was wonderful.
Sondheim says that when a work of his is produced in an opera house,
it's an opera.
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Peter T. Daniels                       
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    Or is it you don't like the story?
And his name is Weill.
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Okay, supply a list of which opera belongs to which house.  And then we
can get it all sorted.
Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins

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 it's an opera.
Oh, that was clever. Shouldn't you be doing your 8th grade
homework now instead of playing with the Internet?

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Does that mean that "Die Zauberflöte" and "Entführung aus dem Serail"
(to name just a few examples) do not belong in the opera house either?
After all these aren't operas, but "Deutsche Singspiele", plays with
songs, the 18th century German equivalent to a musical.

 see you there.
In New York in FEBRUARY?(!!!!)  When I live in Southern 
California?  (I try not to arrive quite that far in advance 
of a performance, even in good weather, and if I do, I 
generally wait inside!)  Anyway, how would you know whether 
you'd seen me or not?  (SFAIK, we've never met, and I've not 
posted my photo to any public site.)

Michael wrote:
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Re-read what I said about singers who can SING.  I have no 
quarrel with operetta being mounted in an opera house - in 
fact I enjoyed both a "Lustige Witwe" and a "Fledermaus" at 
the Wiener Volksoper, in December 2003.  But the singers 
were real singers, not what we all too often here in 
musicals in this country.  (Actually I prefer them to the 
two Mozart works you mention - which I generally avoid 
whenever possible.)

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 posted my photo to any public site.)
Oh, Evelyn, Evelyn, Evelyn. Vee haff vayz ...
Did you at least see the Gates? The day I went was both warm and dry
(though not sunny), and there was a slight breeze -- probably the best
day in the two weeks to do so.
And you neglected to mention Mr. Van Dam. Did he disappoint?
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 I had hoped you'd comment upon this
I'm being offered Candide at City Opera next month. Lyric's Candide
wasn't so good, because they used mostly opera singers, but this
production has John Cullum and Judy Kaye, which is a plus, but it's
directed by Hal Prince, suggesting it's a revival of the 1970s Sondheim
version that I don't like at all (didn't like it when I saw that
production, either), which is a minus.
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 not posted my photo to any public site.)
Cf. the absent and unlamented J*m C*t*, who once infamously lambasted me 
for a complaint about C.C.'s recordings being played at a record store in 
*New York City* ... in a post written by Matthew Westphal.  It's difficult 
to believe that even he thought I fly from Los Angeles to New York after 
getting off work in the evenings, so my best guess is that he confused me 
with Matthew Westphal because we have the same first name.  Still dumb.
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To write to me, do for my address what Androcles did for the lion
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1500566,00.html
I don't understand the header, "Bravo to . . . ", exactly.  Is there a
"winner" here because of "West Side Story"?
John

    Or is it you don't like the story?
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