Missed that Bert - went out to the garden to avoid the dreaded KD! Opolais is doing fantastically well for someone with a cold. Why did they bother with the announcement?
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Missed that Bert - went out to the garden to avoid the dreaded KD! Opolais is doing fantastically well for someone with a cold. Why did they bother with the announcement?
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Presumably at the singer's insistence, to cover herself for any less-than-acceptable moments, should they occur.
It's sometimes been suggested of course that some singers are prone to having announcements like that made, and for the same reason, even when they're in perfect health.
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OMG it's not KD but Suzy Klein. She's slipped several more notches down in my estimation: very poor 'interviewing'.Originally Posted by kernelbogey
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I suspect she was working from a crib sheet - she didn't appear to listen to any of the answers as tho she had a set of prepared points to make and like RW wouldn't acknowledge anything that contradicted her script.
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yes but SUCH naive questions.... I believe she has a degree in music. Patronising or wot?
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But apart from that did you enjoy the opera?
Opera? What opera?
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I was listening on FM on my car radio and I became almost travel-sick with the dropouts. Not a bad performance, but I'm extremely glad not to have heard the obviously even more sickening interviews.
WHY DO THEY DO IT?
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No I didn't.
So, Radio 3 execs, please take note that the presentation by Suzy Klein and her co-presenter with the boring monotone voice, the absurd soundbites from singers, conductor and directors who had nothing useful to say to a radio audiences spoiled this broadcast for me. And the dropouts were the coup de grace.
FF - what do we do? Hara kiri begins to look an attractive option on a Saturday night....
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Just kidding, of course, in a post-modern manner.
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I suspect the on the hoof interview with those involved in an opera is generally bound either to descend into the puke inducing American banality or a presenter who, without personal knowledge of performing in the opera or a detailed background study of say the composer, can only fall back on generalities and irrelevant 'factoids' when those interviewed don't give the expected response. I have only heard one really successful backstage interview and that was done by a highly experienced and articulate performer who knew the incisive questions to ask in order to illustatre his interviewee's interpretation of the role. SK (or her producers/RAs) had obviously done some preparation in gathering those archival recordings but the effort would have been much better spent if they had returned to the old and well established interval talk format - leave the 'how was it for you' style to the tabloids.
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