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- Path: sparky!uunet!visual!rwh
- From: rwh@visual.com (Rob Holzel)
- Subject: Re: Hildegard Behrens vocal collapse?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.124352.17878@visual.com>
- Sender: rwh@visual.com (Robert W. Holzel)
- Organization: Visual
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 12:43:52 GMT
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- I appreciate the indulgence as I passed along the rumors, but mostly
- this came from a sense of alarm. I think Behrens is wonderful, despite
- her obvious, often-discussed-in-the-review-press flaws. I didn't like
- hearing that she might have suffered such a terrible setback.
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- Regarding my friend's discomfort over the thought of Gwyneth Jones
- taking on the Brunnhilde role, Jon Conrad wrote:
-
- >Your friend must be out of touch.
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- Well, admittedly, his first love is early music, mostly choral.
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- > I wonder where your friend's been hiding. :-)
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- With Gardiner recordings, for the most part... :-) But he does occasionally
- emerge for a Wagner or Strauss opera.
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- By the way, any upcoming MET productions of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" coming
- up? I just discovered this music and I think it's AWESOME. I hear that the
- MET production a while back was one of the best at taking full advantage
- of their staging capabilities.
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- Rob
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