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thank you!

@coryisawake - i don't really get "turpentine tossed" - i presume you are referring to the presence of deeper timbre and colour ('the substance') - Moffo uses her voice in a way that allows all consonants and all vowels to be heard - lyrics delivered (!) as different from (amorphous) change of no...

with music reviews (and other mass media issues) being as they are, the audiences like this are the only hope for some merit in performance(s) to survive

2 years ago i was at perf. of Lucia (over $300 - about 7-8 rows from stage) in Sydney OH, in s-t or s-b duets one could only hear the male voic...

@presfunk2028 sorry ti intrude but cant help a comment - plenty of them do it better, in fact plenty of them can actually sing it properly (starting with Moffo, Sutherland, Huang,... apologies to all i missed ), but some of them do it worse then Netrebko, one of them (whit wrong tunes and no idea...

@quixoticcool i do not wish to argue with you, making that distinction between atheism and agnosticism was unnecessary and silly on my part - i apologise for that

regarding you statement that the show is immature and that mocks people beliefs: re maturity I have already addressed that

re mocking:...

just to correct what i say in reply to @butimar68:

there is a sense of proportion lost here - by any merit, if of any relevance, Bette Midler is a far more accomplished entertaining artist than all the judges on "that particular show", and quite possibly all alike shows, together

she may not ap...

most splendid! ... :) thanks so much for posting

@AustrianAdrian lol - MS Netrebko is a fine singer in her own right - she just can't sing this role, NOBODY can teach her to sing this role - lust like one can't squeeze orange juice out of an apple (nothing wrong with apples or oranges) ... somebody should teach the that maybe - one would see it...

thanks for posting - it's a much better quality than the other one here

astonishing performance! wonderful orchestra too, shame for the terrible flute only

who or what is MOTab?

it amazed me that the major word amongst audience was "irreverent" - there is no such thing as 'irreverence' (esp. not 'entertaining irreverence') if one is agnostic - this show is VERY good, and VERY clever (!), it works on 'all levels', including different attitudes towards religion(!) ...

in a...

@Gallipoli717 i know - it is the violinist who picks his violin, and not the other way around (if we are not being 'surrealistic'...) that's why i say "or, does it?" :)

all i meant to say is that it was a very, VERY, memorable performance

@bblovesyou1 prefer Jeff Buckley's version, of course (it is great to hear this too) , but that nothing to do with old english - the version Buckley sings is in modern english, the original line from 16th c. is: " my mak away." (wiki and few other website have the original lyrics) - colours are ...

to continue my earlier posting

it is good that more people listen to good music... downside of 'popularisation' is that we now have this (excuse my word) brainless idea that (because of records sales or money, or headlines, they made) Pavarotti or Callas (no offence to either) are greater music...

@ryaneehales i am not quite enchanted by this particular interpretation (not that i know who the singer is, so, please, no offence to this person's fans, or to people who like this kind of music or this style of singing) this is "the catchiest", if not the best, comment I have ever seen here - cu...

one really needs to see the show to get all the hilariousness, outrageousness, ..., all of it - to appreciate all the parts as well as the whole

music is mostly a very clever send up of 'king and i' and some other tunes (that have been 'asking' for a very long time to be sent up) - visual sides o...