Jon Vickers Shut up with your damn coughing!

A performance of Tristan und Isolde where Tristan tells someone the audience who is coughing a lung up to Shut up !

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[sgnmath1234]

Classic! Bravo, Mr. Vickers ! (Gee, I wonder if the person stopped coughing!!)

[stevevandien]

The Dristan Tristan. Go, Jon, Go!:) --

[Darienbeagle]

The problem with a sick person coughing at a large opera house is that the germs could quickly travel around the world.

[mjc1946]

Just to set things straight. I was singing with this company and was in the audience when this happened. It TRUELY DID happen. It is, most definitekly, his voice and the newspapers had a hayday with this story.

[sprinter848]

@thugless I've heard Vickers speak on several occasions and it does sound like his speaking voice to me. as for the disparaging term "Divo" that is not the issue...as anyone who knows anything about Vickers will attest to, his deeply felt devotion to his artistic purpose and to the art of the Lyric stage is almost savagely intense...he would not necessarily have approved of his own outburst, but everybody has his limit...

[madisonelectronic]

I got up and left the house and started upstairs to the gallery to fuck some of them up when I was passed by about 50 Chicago cops on their way to do the same thing. I stopped and about 5 minutes later the cops dragged a bunch of PR scum down the stairs. Some of the PRs had had a CPD tune up if you know what I mean. hehhehhehheh One of the bartenders gave me a free gin and tonic. Thank you again whoever you were.

[madisonelectronic]

I have eard a lot of operas and before the opera starts nothing is heard, but as soon as it starts every moron in the audience has to cough. I have, of course immortalized myself in two recordings. The first was at the only recital Pavarotti gave at the Medinah Temple. The second was at Lyric Opera in the 70's when some clique in the gallery from the Puerto Rican FALN terrorist group started to shout down a performance of La Traviata. They yelled and I yelled out for them to shut the fuck up.

[Cantormatis]

@thugless Nope, that sounds like his speaking voice to me. Singers and their speaking voices don;'t sound all that much alike!

[multimill]

i don't beleive that was Jon Vickers. However, SOMEONE should have told them because they should have had the good grace and class to get up and LEAVE. That's the problem with some people at the theatre - no manners.

[schutzelb]

Don't know why, but I always thought Vickers was less the DIVA than this suggests! LOL!

[bronxbearbud]

As the cougher should have replied, "JUST DIE ALREADY!"

(though yeah, they will escort you out if you actually do that... how does Tristan end, btw?)

[thugless]

That can 't be him. That doesn't sound like his singing voice at all. If that is his voice, it's hilarious. *effeminate voice* "Shut up with your damn coughing"