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David M. Wagner Profile picture
@david_m_wagner
Apr 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Ok gotta hand it to WQXR-NY, they came up w wins-the-internet slogan for TURANDOT this afternoon: “Wrong answers only.”
Besides winkingly turning the plot on its head (see what I did there?) it also invites conduct deadlier than injecting whatever, *and* invites anti-#TURANDOT zingers, longed-for by a finite nonzero % of #opera fans, tho not including your present tweeter.
So, other “Twisted Tales From Kobbé’s” slogans?

#AÏDA: You’re gorges, Napata!
#BOHÈME: Of cough!
#SAMSON: Welcome to my shop/Let me cut your mop
#TROVATORE: sick burn
#TANNHÄUSER: Venus and a harpist
#PARSIFAL: Grailroaded
#LOHENGRIN: (Wd u believe, “When does the next swan leave?” has ALREADY BEEN USED? Legendarily, by Leo Slezak (tenor, & father of Walter), when a confused stagehand caused Duke Gottfried to pull back from the gate and move out onto the swanboat tarmac?)

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Oct 7
Our 10/7 - not too dissimilar to yours if you think about it! #Lepanto
“And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.”
“But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know,
The voice that shook our palaces - four hundred years ago:
It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey at the gate!”
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Jun 9
@VerbumCatholic @JoshuaTCharles It’s been just sitting there for decades 😃
@VerbumCatholic @JoshuaTCharles Some ironies:

The character that launched dear Ray Walston toward “My Favorite Martian” was named Luther: Luther Billis in “South Pacific” (stage and film).

Before “South Pacific” Ray won a Tony for playing, literally, Satan - dba “Mr. Applegate” - in “Damn Yankees.”
@VerbumCatholic @JoshuaTCharles The Luther Billis character required broad farce, whereas Uncle Martin - well, what was more exciting, in the ‘50s, than Martians? Yet Uncle Martin required Ray to deadpan, and to dress like an insurance salesman, and from *that* platform, to be funny.

He was very talented.
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Aug 15, 2023
1/ TLM readings for Assumption are boss! Gen 3 - we know there in enmity betw the snake and “the woman” - a typological category that includes several OT women, including Judith, so 1st reading is from her book, where she is explicitly praised for her most famous accomplishment.
2/ Old ‘Olofernes - ‘e’s been ever so much better since ‘e ‘ad ‘is ‘ead off.
3/ Not in the readings, but “the woman” includes Jael, in Judges.
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Jul 6, 2023
What’s going on? fundyProts w nmore Biblical depth than Antietam Creed attacking Our Lady, then someone does a hostile (some wd say homophobic) thread on GKC, and now R. Brazen Witch is on about Dante.
For more about Dante and Courtly Love, read on.
2/ Dante took the Courtly Love tradition more or less as he found it; one of the rules of the CL road was that your “amor” cdn’t be your wife. But in part he broke with the conventions. CL usually involved sexual passion for the “amor,” and sometimes (less often) actual conquest.
3/ This surprises some ppl, bc we think we know all about CL from TANNHÄUSER or “Man of La Mancha” - “to love pure and chaste from afar” - n’uh uh. Except for a minority of CL poets, including Dante. “Pure and chaste from afar” was v much his thing re Beatrice.
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May 31, 2023
1/ So far it sounds good. Konieczny is excellent; Dmitri Belosselskiy as Daland is threatening to steal the show.

Soon we’ll hear from Elsa v d Heever as Senta. @MetOpera she’s done Elisabetta in MARIA STUARDA, Elettra in IDOMENEO, and now Senta, i.e. …
2/ she specializes in chicks who are a bit cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs.
3/ Elza’s fine. Noted, too, how Eric Cutler, formerly bel canto (Arturo in PURITANI) here moves to the threshold of Wagner-tenor-world, turning in a well-sung Erik - a role that doesn’t need, yet frequently gets, a full-blown heldentenor.
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Apr 23, 2023
For a dark lord, Pizarro sure gets a jolly intro march. Beethoven’s FIDELIO on MetOperaChannel now, perf from 1976. Gwyneth Jones, Jess Thomas, Donald McIntyre; cond. John Mauceri.
2/ The horns effed up their exposed slow passage early in the overture, so they provided lovely support for Gwyneth in the Abscheulicher, and maybe the maestro didn’t demand their asses for dinner.
3/ Leonora (“Fidelio”) persuades Rocco (John Macurdy, old pro) to let the prisoners out for some air, hoping she’ll spot her husband. When Pizarro calks on Rocco to please explain, Rocco says well it’s the king’s b’day. …
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