On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:52:05 -0700, Bobcat <bob_catt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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yodeled:
>On Jul 3, 12:55 pm, Bobcat <bob_c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> ...The list is long - Ezio Pinzo, Mario Lanza...
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>Typo alert! It's Ezio Pinza of course (Lanza is OK - it's not Lanzo).
><g>
It's a myth, of course, that La Sills was without "diva" attitude--
not what we used to call "Prima Donna"-- - she needed it to survive,
and she wouldn't have become a star without it. She just was
eminently rational in its practice. NYCO was not thinking of casting
her as Cleopatra in that fated 1966 production of "Giulio Cesare"--
they had another singer lined up. Sills told NYCO that she was going
to sing Cleopatra in New York that year one way or another, and that
her husband was prepared to rent out Carnegie Hall for her to do it
there. (Yes, a wealthy husband is very helpful too).
And then there was the famous time at LaScala when the wardrobe
mistress persisted in presenting her with an ill-fitting dress in an
unbecoming color (it had apparenly been Renata Scotto's costume).
When the dress came back to SiIll's dressing room one time too many,
Sills did not scream. She asked to borrow a shears from the wardrobe
mistress, cut the dress in half, and handed it back.
What Sills did not do that others did as a matter of course, was abuse
underlings or inconvenience colleagues. And in that world, that will
earn you a lot of respect and sup****t.
Theresa
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