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Oh, the things we are drawn into because of D !!!!!!!!
It's incredible isn't it? The last opera I sat through, I was still in my teens. Now I'm going to tape an award show.

Thanks, will certainly watch this.

 

I never thought I'd ever go to see an opera and I probably wouldn't for anyone else other than Darius. It will certainly be a new experience! Sue

 

As I said yesterday morning, it is on at 7.30pm.
She might be the Sexiest Female in soap(whoever she is).......but Darius is definatly the Sexiest Male on the planet! :heart: :D
Wonder why it's always a Wednesday that these award shows seem to be on! :unsure:

It appears that Rolando is suffering voice problems again, but he is trying to establish a TV career.

 

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Villazon's new TV career:

 

Opera stars Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Rolando Villazon have been lined up to take part in a wide-ranging BBC opera season.

 

They join the likes of Stephen Fry, Rick Stein and Katie Derham for Opera On The BBC, which starts on TV and radio and launches online this week.

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The Sunday Times did not particularly like the recent Rolando Villazon concert in London; the British paper thinks the Mexican tenor's voice is, well, gone:

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This is from this link

 

http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/rolando_villazn/

 

The O2 Carmen is a repeat of last year's show at the Albert Hall.

Here is a review of that show.

 

Going to see an opera for the first time is a bit scary. It's just a bunch of fat blokes and warbly maidens singing in tuneless Italian before melodramatically kicking the bucket, isn't it? Who would want to see that? But Raymond Gubby's lavish production of Carmen at the Royal Albert Hall might be the one to change your mind. For starters it's in English, meaning you have a chance of actually understanding the plot. And it has acrobats, fire-eaters and a cast of seemingly hundreds of children and soldiers. Did we mention it was lavish?

 

The story itself is as old as the hills. Girl meets boy; girl is a bit mad and gets boy sent to prison; boy become obsessed with girl; girl falls for a bull-fighter instead, etc. Pretty much the contents of an average episode of EastEnders, in fact. Cristina Nassif's Carmen is a feisty, tempestuous character who holds both the male characters and the audience in her spell, while John Daszak's Don Jose is a suitably jealous loser. The inventive staging in the round allows what is usually the stalls to become a village square or a desolate forest, even if the curvy split-level stage looks a bit like a drained swimming pool thanks to the ladders round its edge.

 

Best of all is Bizet's sumptuous music which is crammed full of 'Greatest Classical Album in the World... Ever' type hits. Played effortlessly here by the Royal Philharmonic under the direction of Peter Robinson it's stuff to get your pulse racing, from the instantly recognisable overture to the endlessly hummable Toreadors Aria. This is populist opera and all the better for it - anyone who enjoys a dramatic spectacle, some decent tunes and a bit of Spanish buzz will find plenty to appreciate here.

 

 

 

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just as I need to catch my flight home at night lol x

Thanks Bramley, sounds really good.

 

Just rung The Arena again now and they say it will finish at 5.15pm. Need to know to book a taxi back to the station. Sue

Rolande won the critics award at the classical brits. The fact that the BBC are doin g this opera season as it were with Kiri tex kinowa training a soprano and rolande a tenor with a view at the end of a performer to appear at Proms in the park makes me think that PSTOS did have some effect.
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