About last night... Ok, it was long time ago.... (DG aka Ildebrando)

So this will be my short (at least I'm trying to be short) and delayed review about the Don Giovanni I was mentioning before.

And the most important thing about this concert was Ildebrando of course. Evidently I want to marry him, any time, anywhere. He is the short, good looking Italian MAN I totally adore. And yes, he can sing too. And he is not a histerical tenor. (And I saw him, YESSSS, from really close...)

Anyway. It was a really simple, but in the same time brilliant and exciting performance. Concert version, so there was no other option for anybody besides the music/singing and some acting. And the conductor, the adorable Adam Fischer (yes, he was the conductor of Cecilia's Maria album) who was conducting without the score - and he was playing along with the singers. The Don Giovanni-Leporello duo was a typical handsome man-big belly man partnership, in this case really funny. Donna Anna (Krassimira Stoyanova) was superb, his usually "without balls" Don Ottavio seemed to have balls this time, even he was a jump-in-singer - Saimir Pirgu. Zerlina had big boobies with a glittering voice, sometime a bit overplayed, and his Masetto was forgettable, but generally Masettos are not so important... They just get beatened.

Donna Elvira's singing was also excellent (whole cast see in my previous post, I'm too lazy now to copy everybody, shame on me), and the Commendatore's acting was too statuesqe, but as you know he is becoming a statue, so you are not wondering about this.

And our beloved Ildebrando d'Archangelo, the owner of the most beautiful Italian name on earth, was sexy and funny, and whatsoever. (Last time I saw him in October, again Don Giovanni, but he was singing the part of Leporello, and I was sitting 2327657621546 meters away in the audience, in the last row at the MET, I didn't realize that he is so good. And I have to admit as well that I fell asleep after 5 minutes, because the jetlag... Sorry...)

So please Ildebrando, after marrying me, keep singing DonGiovanni (with Erwin Schrott as Leporello, of course) and I can die FELICE :))))

And evidently, thank you Wolfie for writing this THING for us. The world needed it.

If you think Radames should wear golden shiny leggings, this is not a surprise for you...

Again, our favourite Mr. C. is presenting us the high fashion of Opera Characters.
Fortunately he had really nice legs back in 1999.

(pic: a screenshot from a clip)

Breaking news - finally I will have it!!!!!! But what???

FINALLY... Very soon I will have the DVD of this amazing movie...
Here you are, the poster, so you know what I will be watching...


But unfortunately I still don't know what to do.... Evidently I wanted to watch this really sad movie at a cinema, but as Hungary is really far from the civilization, the next possibility to see this "live" was in Vienna...
And you know that it is way more coooler to cry around during this opera in a big movie theater with cinema sound and to see Anna+Rolando's big face in front of you like they were giants...
And it is sooo lame to watch this only at home on your small tv. So I have to go to a friends house who has big screen tv or something like that. But I think I don't have a friend like that... Awwww what a shame.
Anyway, I try to watch this in a good qualitiy and to convince somebody to join me at my 'Let's see the Boheme and cry a lot'-Party. And then I will let you know if Anna is still so beautiful as usual.

Opera could be fun - if you have only 140 characters...

Meanwhile trying to catch up with the new posts, here you are, some candy.

Other blogger, The Omniscient Mussel, made a contest on Twitter (I don't like it, I mean Twitter - ok, I admit, it is useful for something, but until this point - not for me...) and the results are here.

The idea was to do opera-plots with 140 characters. And to be funny and explain the totally nonsense story of operas... You have to check it out - it is hilarious.

The best material was presented by the user "urbanophile" describing Maestro Béla Bartók's 'A kékszakállú herceg vára' - hope you don't mind the Hungarian words :)

Ur a psycho but I married you anyway. “Don’t ask me about my business.” Sorry, I gots to know. Ok, it’s Door #7 for you, bitch.

So, good night, bitches :)

DonGiovanni tonight...

This night I will see Don Giovanni for the 5372652372387 time. Ok, maybe it is only the 10th time I attend a live performance of Wolfie's masterpiece.

And it will be a concert version. Ooooooh what a shame.

BUTTTTTTTT I really hope to see from the closest, this hottie - an ex-Escamillo-on-da-horse.

I already saw Ildebrando d'Archangelo at the MET, singing Leporello, but this time we will se how is he doing as DonJuan.

The others...

Don Giovanni: Ildebrando D`Arcangelo

Commendatore: Dan Paul Dimitrescu

Donna Anna: Krassimira Stoyanova

Don Ottavio: Saimir Pirgu

Donna Elvira: Aga Mikolaj

Leporello: Wolfgang Bankl

Zerlina: Alexandra Reinprecht

Masetto: Nagy Zoltán

Leporello hotness

A sweaty Leporello treated badly.

© AP

(In a Claus Guth production of Don Giovanni. Salzburg 2008. Erwin Schrott is the sweaty one.)

I like this production, but a lot of people don't. Because they don't like drog addict DonGiovannis and Leporellos. They love the "I'm in a traditional peridod dress" DonGiovannis. I think this is more fun.