R3 Sat 27th June Tristan rpt

[DracoM]

How is it that every single time I hear Nina Stemme, I wonder ow the heck she has managed to achieve top billing in big scores?
That relentless wordless VIBRATO - for me absolutely wrecks any opera eg this Tristan.

[DracoM]

And Pappano is doing a fantastic job in the pit. Those guys working their socks off - so sad.

[Serial_Apologist]

And Pappano is doing a fantastic job in the pit. Those guys working their socks off - so sad.

A repeat to replace a non-repeat: J to Z, which would have been on at five, has not yet had enough programmes for repeats to compete with repeats. How much nicer it would have been to have a nice, fresh, non-repeated J to Z; they could have put T&I back an hour: this isn't the usual Opera at the Met early start Transatlantic timing excuse.

[DracoM]

Hear! Hear!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Hear! Hear!!

I've said something on the jazz bored too. I'm sure the Powers That Be at the Beeb will be quick to jump to attention with assurances this sort of nonsense won't ever happen again.

[Barbirollians]

Couldn’t disagree more Stemme is wonderful nd her singing in that ROH revival and the orchestra and Pappano were much the best things in it . Her Liebestod truly touched as well as thrilled.

[DracoM]

Chacun a son gout, mate!!

[Cockney Sparrow]

Chacun a son gout, mate!!

Very true.
I saw her as Isolde, Belohlavek conducting at Glyndebourne (some years back now, I admit) and didn't take against the voice - perhaps I object to beat in the voice - so wide, wide vibrato - but I've heard her since at ROH and again it was fine. I've thought before that recording/reproduction can be unkind to some singers' voices but again the listener's disposition must play a part. I enjoyed the Glyndebourne Tristan so much I also went to the cinema relay, and that too was fine for me.

[Serial_Apologist]

Surely the main problem, apart from the seasickness inducing effect, with wide vibrato, is knowing at what point in the oscillating pitch range is the singer actually in tune? It seems a clever disguise to me.

[DracoM]

Surely the main problem, apart from the seasickness inducing effect, with wide vibrato, is knowing at what point in the oscillating pitch range is the singer actually in tune? It seems a clever disguise to me.

Yup!!