[A clear case of mezzos are doing it for themselves? – I think I could use a drink from that green bottle on the marble dresser. With lots of eyes. Joyce DiDonato (Agrippina) and Kate Lindsey (Nerone) in Handel’s “Agrippina” as staged by David McVicar, NewYork/MEt 2020 – Photo credit: THANK YOU, Sara Krulwich, of the NY Times, for this new altarpiece in the White Shirt Cathedral.]
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Nearly all opera plots have one of two simple solutions that are almost never employed: 1) threesome, 2) but what if she’s only his stepmom.
This is a case of #2, but if we ask Poppea, it might also be a case of #1, off #2 holds true.
Between DiDonato and Lindsey on our stages: what a time to be alive.
Queer Lorgnette 
I’m seeing this simulcast in my local movie theater, and friends, I may not survive.
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…but what a way to go!
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Same!
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Need a new hashtag here: #IAlso!
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Also, I haven’t read this review, but the photo at the top shook me up, too:
http://www.playbill.com/article/read-the-reviews-for-the-metropolitan-opera-premiere-of-agrippina
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At this rate, none of us will survive, but we won‘t care.
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“If it were now to die,
‘Twere now to be most happy”
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Oh my. That’s a Cherubino face, from Figaro reloaded.
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I’m seeing this in the house AND going to the HD telecast, if only, among other things, to find out how long it takes to put all those tats on Kate Lindsey.
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Valid reason!
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side note: someone joined the velvet jacket faction. Help.
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Thanks for the reminder to get my cinema ticket! (I do everything in the last minute…)
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sidenote: our other Queen:
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Latest embodiment of Orlando: Guns N’ Roses.
The bottle looks to be Gordon’s. There’s always something a touch downmarket about Agrippina.
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Bombay Sapphire would kill the color scheme, I fear?
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They could have used the new streamlined Tanqueray, but in fact it seems this Gordon may be as much of a climber as she is:
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2012/09/gordons-gin-ten-green-bottles.php
So a nice touch indeed.
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fair point. Cheers!
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I just left the Met after seeing this. My advice? Run, don’t walk, to the nearest cinema that’s showing this on Saturday. Incredibly clever production, all singers terrific, and Kate gives fabulous boy.
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Thanks for the recommendation! This is probably the only time I will not be grumbling about having to shell out 34 bucks for a cinema ticket when an actual opera ticket in town is less 😅
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BTW, there’s a very funny video Joyce DiDonato made with Kate lindsey that’s on Joyce’s FB page. Hopefully you can see it: https://www.facebook.com/JoyceDiDonatoOfficial/videos/633052847513436/UzpfSTEwMDAwMDAzMTgwMDM4NjozMDg3NzgxMTIxMjMyOTE4/
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Just reporting back that I DIED, and it was GLORIOUS, and I’m considering paying another $18 just to see the encore.
Also, for the occasion, I dressed up as teenage-dirtbag Emperor-wannabe Nerone, tats and all, and it was a lot of fun. 😀
JDD was phenomenal, and Brenda Rae’s Poppea was sparkling and energetic! Kate Lindsay’s hips will not be denied.
FWIW, the otherwise squicky scenes of Claudio being a predator were undercut by comedy very well, so there wasn’t so much vulnerability on Poppea’s part to cross my internal line of discomfort.
I wasn’t expecting two counter-tenors, but they were great, and I now have visions of this production with three trouser roles…
Anyway, I loved it!
Cheers,
GGeek (Al)
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Dang typos – Kate Lindsey.
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In that excitement. Logical. Will edit that later, ok?
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Just saw this in the cinema yesterday. Have not come back to real life at all yet.
After the opera I drove over 20 kilometres (15 miles) to get to a grocery store, where I’d be sure not to meet anyone who’d greet met with “Heyy, how nice to see you, how are things… blah-blah….”.
Incredible intensity, incredible everything.
And: whatever the colour of the shirt of Kate Lindsey – I’m in!
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Hey, so glad you caught it!
But: could you really drive afterwards? 😉 Glad you made it back safely!
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Actually I had to stop twice on the road – first at a parking space a few hundred yards from the cinema and then again after 10 kms at a highway parking place to phone a friend, who’d also seen the performance and was in a state… in a good way! =)
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(also yes to all of Lindsey’s shirts)
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