White Shirt Monday: Alpha Romeo
[Swagger: This is how you do it. - Vesselina Kasarova as Romeo in Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi", Munich 2012.]
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There are still 327 (now, 326) shots of Kasarova’s final scenic appearance as the Romeo of all Romeos sitting on my harddrive. And I would have posted this in the morning, but I got sidetracked by that jawline.
This opera has it all: the mezzo who gets the soprano (fin, they both die, but tenor boy is definitely left outside the crypt), including two big love duets. Also: swords, leather jackets, vocal bravado, white shirts, boots, romance, dueling. And dying for love.
*sigh*
It’s Romeo and Juliet with lesbian leads, right down to the processing and U-Hauling (fine, it wouldn’t have needed to be a crypt, but still, they did move in together). It was even written for a female singer back 1830.
(for more on this particular production and this particular run of it, head over to thadieu’s and scroll down in the Kasarova tag. Here’s part 1 of 5)
Such an exquisite woman! I wonder if she will ever be persuaded to switch teams….
hm, her personal “team” is none of my business.
On the opera stage, lucky for us, she has amply played for both (if you count trouser roles, although she would probably be a great, maniacal Geschwitz).
Ah! a monocle would be a wonderful accessory.
Brilliant headline, Anik! Firing on all cylinders, that production.
Really looking forward to the other 326. *sigh*
obviously, there are just 30-40 really good ones, but that would almost be a year of White Shirt Monday – we could call it “Monochrome Yeux” and celebrate it well into next spring
looping back 4th time this week now, “ascolta!” for next edition whenever that might be, may i request the back line please?
after your quintuple visit, I think you’re entitled to first dibs on pretty much everything in this production