OperaNow! #215: Goat Boy

San Diego Opera names former Lyric Opera Chicago chief Bill Mason as Artistic Advisor...What happened with the incoming director at La Scala...The Met opens up on budget and contract negations...Andrea Bocelli embroiled in eponymous wine scandal.

In Oliver's Corner:  if he-goats are a turn-on, Calisto is the opera for you.

This week features Michael, The OC and Jenny Rivera

Comments

[Menuet alla Zoppa]

I like that Michael said that being a singer is not as strenuous as swinging an axe, because I went to see Britten's Paul Bunyan recently, and the lumberjacks in that spend quite a lot of time doing both simultaneously :D

Oliver - I wonder if you see any parallels (strange as it might seem) between La Calisto and Orpheus in the Underworld - both undermining the seriousness of mythological characters for comic effect?

Jenny - just wanted to say that I though you acquitted yourself admirably on the BBC. I was shocked by that opening question too. Although it could have been worse - you could have been faced with.... SARAH "Isn't opera just a diversion for you and your rich friends?" MONTAGUE!!!!

[zach]

this is not opera related but I tred the McGB last night. I had never ordered anythihng off the dollar menu at McDonalds before so I was surprised by how cheap it was. The whole this was about 750 calories and it didn't make me feel bad either.