In a message dated 06/04/2000 10:46:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
LikeSoMuchFish@a... writes:
<< Then of course , there are cross-over disasters!
Anyone remember Linda Ronsadt as Mabel in Pirates?
(If not you have probably blocked it--thank your mind:) >>
I never heard it but I heard that a worse debacle was her Mimi in Boheme...
<<Or the not as bad but still "too-too" Carreras opposite Te Kanawa in West
Side Story? As beautiful as his tones are on that recording, I find it hard
to forgive Tony's heavy Spanish Accent. >>
"Sahm-teen's Cahmin', I don' know HHWat eet ees, baht eet ees cahmin' too
soon!"
Worse was their South Pathetic. Kiri's attempt to sing Nellie Forbush
resulted in her singing flat and Carreras sounded like Ricky Ricardo ("Onz
you have foun' her, never let her go -- oh LOOOCY!!")
Chris
Christine Thomas
Mezzo-Soprano
Wauwatosa, WI
"Oh, I got plenty Akhnaten, Akhnaten's plenty for me" :)
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