Brit TV presenter Paul O'Grady passed away suddenly last night.
His weekday 5pm show commanding A-list guests was always a blast of happiness and sanity in dark times. Note: well before a guest knew their spot would YouTube next day. Angela Lansbury as always a ‘hoot’!
Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
My fictional canine TV presenter/performer CEDRIC sends his ‘wags’ and ‘woof-canolences’.
What about ‘The Poisoning Traveller’, adversaries Eustace Levy never knew she had?! Disillusioned James Bond meets Gardener’s World meets The Muppets! Meets Condé Nast. Who wouldn’t subscribe for that?! Maybe a typo in the 'Nest'?
Name the Bond movie where poisoning was attempted by thread? One month free subscription to The Creature Channel for the first caller. No, not you again, Danny. We know life after…is challenging…
Antiques Road Creatures
Well, my Grand Grand Ma-Meow, GCat rest her poop”””. This scratching post...
2005-$1,500
Oouupp2023-$15,000
Sound effects, courtesy, Marcel the Shell. Hard after shell success in Hollywood. Just have to wait for Everything, all at once, President Moishell ! [pauspoise] Maybe stick to the ticking clock;(
And the Mark Twain Award goes to, Meow..I can’t read these words Idina. -Just as well you impressed them at the table read Jerry, otherwise…
Watching just an hour of Gwyneth Patrow’s American court case is no cat nip. No disrespect. The real deal that makes most legal TV flaccid or overwrought.
I have knowledge of this witnessing British High Court cases. Mind your own business.)!
The mundanity of justice is way more fascinating than any media replicant. The moral of that story: just stay at home, write a novel about crazy creatures who invading a snow slope find nirvana. Help their challenging complexion. The human race. And their bank account.
For opera lovers feeling opera hasn’t and shouldn’t be relegated to the cultural netherland, the Opera de Paris has just launched its digital streaming platform with competitive, reasonable rates. If you’re under 28 it’s peanuts at €4.95 a month. Invite your elephant!
23 videos (at least 14 of which are must-sees for me) are currently available. More great stuff to come. Iconic director Peter Sellars’ working of Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda prems Feb 9, 2024. Sure beats schlepping ‘round the world as a ‘groupie’;) We were younger then..You can also watch some premieres live like Renée Fleming/Gustavo Dudamel Nixon in China this April 7th. Go and see an opera live. But for me, spoilt as was I, that’s not fair: bliss:)!
There’s a new show in town till April 24 (that is someone’s creature’s birthday:)
Does it work? Is it fun? If..you decide.
Bonne poisson d’avril!
Courtesy: https://www.frenchtruly.com
Only a matter of time before creatures raise their inner voice….”Ned-up” or is that “ribbit”. ! A definition of Fach?;)
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going. xx FAROUK. Fondness from afar…
Scroll to the post end and learn of KITTY and her unusual Easter hunt after a gruelling winter.
De-composed Easter eggs millions of years ago are coming to say, hello!
If any musical art form desperately needed PR surely it is opera. Is there any other musical form that would beg the question, why? Country music, be-bop, sea shanties, pan pipes, tango, ballet, heavy metal: no questions asked.
OperaVision is free for all. Verdi would have approved. His Aida is an opera engrained into the imagination to the point of Elton John! In 1929 philosopher Adorno wondered what many are still wondering whether authentic productions were alienating an audience. Edward Said on Aida: "curious falsity."
As stagings go, award Teatro dell'Opera di Roma - 8 1/2 (steaming until Oct 7). What would a Fellini staging of Aida have looked like??!! If you’ve seen 8 1/2’s final scene you’ll know Fellini and Verdi were totally on the same page. [La Strada, mama…]
[Mama: Freddi whispered once to me: “Uccattino. Try not so hard. Life really isn’t worth it.” Listen to Mama….]
Aida and the Empire of Emotions In the works of both Kluge and Adorno, the concept of experience is linked to the idea of sacrifice, an idea that, like the traditional bourgeois operas themselves, suggests a double character. Thus Aida, though it could also be Senta, sacrifices herself as much to the society that denies her her freedom as for the man she loves.
Such a hard opera to stage, let alone cast. If the Rome audience hadn’t approved they would have let everyone know. Every performance sold out. No boos could be heard on the stream. Unless very faintly. Director Davide Livermore envisions Erté and silent Hollywood movies for make-up/costumes enlisting his erstwhile digital team D-Wok magnificently in an ever changing cuboid. Basically the only set except for an enormous chaise, Kagan meets King Tut (much coveted in the initial broadcast chat). Singing at 60 like Krassimira Stoyanova (Aida)..I’d happily die, well, not anything like…! Michele Mariotti, conductor and music director of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, sensitive, stately, fearsome. Not so sure about the Isadora Duncan’y choreography though the dancers certainly convince.
And if ever there was an opera for the current geo-political tragedy of the last year… So easy to condemn. So lazy an understanding, so so hard, let alone heal. Forgiveness a bridge too far?
