Ask the Chorus Master to pick one of his charges - there must have been some who knew the part and could see a meteoric rise to fame and ££££££££££...
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... they must've been really peed off with Mr McCarthy turned up, then!Originally posted by Zucchini View Post
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As I understand it and as reported in the Press at the time, the chorus member who was Thomas Allen's understudy was in fact a doctor and he went in the ambulance with him to hospital.Originally posted by mercia View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Erm ... isn't there a bit of a ... well, pretty obvious flaw in having an understudy like this?Originally posted by Petrushka View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Yes but given the choice of someone singing my part or saving my life then ....Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Hiya ferney,Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
A couple of years ago an opera I attended at The Lowry, Salford MediaCityUK did away with the second act of three as one of the main singers (that was not in act 2) became ill and the understudy was accounced to have gone home.Last edited by Stanfordian; 16-10-15, 15:51.Comment
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thanks for replies - I must admit it hadn't occured to me that one would have understudies in anything other than operas - not sure what I thought would happen in such circumstances
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I don't know - on the couple of occasions I've attended when the soloist has been indisposed, they've reprogrammed a different work (presumably with whichever instrumentalist is available nearby with a work with which the orchestra needs minimum rehearsal time). These have not actually been mid-performance crises, however.Originally posted by mercia View Post
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Brunnhildes need to watch their backs too - I remember Jeremy Isaacs coming on stage between Acts 2 and 3 of Walküre in 1996 to announce that Anne Jones was having vocal difficulties but that fortunately Wagner had provided for nine Valkyries - one was rapidly promoted!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Don't know about conductors but the driver didn't turn up for the 9.30pm from Liverpool Street the other evening and there was no understudy to take his place.Comment
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For a moment then, I wondered what the punchline was going to be!Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
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For example, I've never heard him conduct (or heard of him conducting) any Mahler other than No 4, but here he is in Mahler 9 with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra!Originally posted by cloughie View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Having said he'd done the lot he has not in general done complete cycles of Symphonies, RVW and Rachmaninov are exceptions and maybe his recorded repertoire, although wide-ranging was not as prolific as many of his contemporaries over the last 50 years.Originally posted by Caliban View PostFor example, I've never heard him conduct (or heard of him conducting) any Mahler other than No 4, but here he is in Mahler 9 with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra!
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Just caught up with the excellent documentary. A reminder of the great days at the BBC. A cellist chum informs me the cellist in question is Nathaniel Rosen.Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostComment
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