Dang drama llama.
We spend the day shopping for saldi, buying some tasty 50%-off Louboutins and some snug snazzy Costume National boots and a little Miu Miu / 10 Corso Como cashmere, then we try to recover with some tasty dinner out, but then Radio Tre broadcasts live from Teatro Comunale di Bologna the appalling Orphèè Et Eurydice directed by David Alagna with his brother Roberto as Orphée, all hail breaks loose, and we have to drag the drama llama out of his little stable once again. In the middle of the night.
Briefly, cause it's late and cause the Alagna shenanigans are getting very old very fast: only yesterday we were discussing how -- the example was "Ombra mai fu" -- vanity projects make famous singers try to bend the rules and sing stuff that's just not made for their voices. So everybody sings a very particular aria for mezzo such as "Ombra mai fu", with mostly bad results.
Alagna -- with his "director" brother -- did the same: earlier tonight in Bologna they dug up poor Gluck's corpse, tore it apart, reassembled it, Frankenstein-like, to adapt OEE to a (not so brilliant anymore) light tenor voice such as Roberto's. Add some weird staging ideas (in the "modernized", Alagnaized Orphée, Eurydice dies in a car crash), and the result was a healthy dose of boos at the end of the opera.
The 2 acts recorded from the broadcast are all over rapidshare, really, but we advise against listening to it all, in its relentless ugliness (we skimmed both files, and they really really suX).
But the good part, the boos, are here: in a mercifully brief mp3, about a minute, free download with yousendit.
Blogger Parsifal79 is embracing the drama llama, and has a lot more.