| re: Soprano Angela Gheorghiu interrupts performance when her colleague starts singing an encore | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 05:05 pm EDT 09/15/24 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 04:52 pm EDT 09/15/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Soprano Angela Gheorghiu interrupts performance when her colleague starts singing an encore - AlanScott 04:40 pm EDT 09/15/24 | |
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| I believe the Met had an encore of the wonderful Verdi chorus number "Va, pensiero" from "Nabucco" in recent years at least once (possibly during a broadcast). The Met broadcasts over the yeas most likely had an agreement with the radio networks not to have encores, and even the now-defunct "Opera News" magazine used to publish timings of the acts (estimated of course on usual tempos of the conductors -- without encores). City Opera, under Beverly Sills, didn't allow encores, with the exception of, I think it was Alessandro Siciliani conducting, that "La Rondine" concerted number I mentioned in a post below. I think encores are more commonly done in Italian houses. There the funny story of a tenor who was very bad and cracked on his high notes at the opera house at Parma. Parma, as you know from "We Open In Venice" in "Kiss Me, Kate" truly is a tough town (I've been there). As the story continues, the audience yelled "Bis, Bis" which means "Again, again!". The tenor sang the aria again, cracking on the high note in the same place. "Bis, Bis" rang out from the audience. The poor tenor looked rather puzzled and tired. "Bis, bis" came the audience with one person yelling out (in Italian)-- "You're gonna sing it again until you get it right!" :-) There's also the fact that in Italian houses (maybe in other countries as well) there has been over the history of opera some claques -- paid audience members to cheer or boo or otherwise create a disturbance. Or just raucous fans -- at the Met apparently at her debut of the role, when Renata Scotto was about to sing "Casta Diva" from "Norma" one of the most difficult arias in opera, someone in the audience cussed her out and said she didn't compare to Maria Callas. (You can probably find the exact quote on the internet.) At La Scala, Renee Fleming was booed on opening night of "Lucrezia Borgia" in 1998. So while I can't come up with many examples off-hand, opera fans have been known to be quite vocal and demanding of their singers and of sometimes demanding encores. |
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