Watch now: Opera stars join in the Hillary counter-inauguration
mainOpera singers will come together tomorrow to honour Hillary Clinton, while Donald Trump is being sworn in.
Glen Roven has set two Clinton speeches to music to be sung by Patricia Racette, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Lawrence Brownlee, Matthew Polenzani and others.
‘Setting Hillary’s words was a very emotional experience,’ said Glen Roven. ‘Phrases that fly by in a speech are naturally elongated in a musical setting, and as I set each word, slowly and methodically I was in tears. When I mentioned this project to these singers, their immediate response was, ‘I’m in.”
Here’s a preview, just released to Slipped Disc.
Oh God, you people make a laughing stock of the art. Well, continue on snowflakes.
People like you making these nasty comments are why millions of americans are grieving the outcome of the election. And make us ashamed of our country.
Thank you!
Love the comments!
Interesting how the Russian trolling operation appears to have found this comments thread. The telltale signs are fabricated names like “Olassus.”
Ah, a catch phrase from the alt-right (that is to say, bigoted) side of things.
Thank you for the calling card.
Shame on Patricia Racette, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Lawrence Brownlee and Matthew Polenzani. They should go and live where transitions are not peaceful the way ours is — say, in Gambia — and there learn the point of the ceremony.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38682184
So boycotting an inauguration, or staging an alternative, threatens the peaceful transition somehow?
The ceremony honors the transition. That’s why the Obamas travel to it with the Trumps, and so on.
These opera singers advertising their disdain for it are really advertising their ignorance and a lack of respect for the United States.
I guess boycotting Hitler’s inauguration would also have been unacceptable?
The singers are showing their disapproval of a liar, a racist, a crook, and an altogether contemptible person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
They say it ain’t over till the fat lady sings
Well…..Hillary here she is.
Let’s have the full list of singers associated with this. I’m sort of an opera regular, paying up to $400 a ticket to attend and I’d rather not offend these singers with my attendance at one of their performances.
Good idea. Maybe you can spend the time being sort of a regular at Ted Nugent or Kid Rock concerts.
Yes!, Good selection, much more fun and better chance of getting laid.
Shame on you. Firstly for supporting a fascist like Trump. But, more importantly, for trying to deny others the right to express their views because they differ from yours!
If you think that someone not spending their own money on something they don’t want to see is a denial of human rights…..then you must think the flopping of “Bad Santa 2” is a crime against humanity
If you think that someone not spending their own money on something they don’t want to see is a denial of human rights…..then you must think the flopping of “Bad Santa 2” is a crime against humanity
It wasn’t Trump who hired Brownshirts to disrupt his opponent’s rallies.
Bravo!
Finally–the “art” of Florence Foster Jenkins has been surpassed.
No artist will speak out with any opinion other than against the President elect and his family and team, as they know they will be bullied, a la BDS – that there is a militant lack of tolerance for any other opinion. It is banal, counter productive to encourage, to write about one view, it builds walls not understanding, and healing is through an ability to listen and understand others.
What isn’t peaceful about this? I cannot understand why anyone would be so offended by this piece. This is EXACTLY what art is for. Bravi to those involved in this project.
Joyce DiDonato was smart to call in sick after giving this some thought.
Can’t watch at work. What Melody did they use for “I don’t recall”?
How about, “I never sent, nor received, emails marked classified”?
Is this a joke?
I will continue to support these exceptional performers. The Dallas Opera has been privileged to have such fine talent grace the Winspear Opera House and other area concert halls. I have enjoyed their talent in the past and look forward to attending any of their performances in this area in the future.
I am proud of every one of those singers, who are among the greatest American singers today. Tomorrow is a shocking day for the United States. The election of Donald Trump is something to be deplored in every possible way. And as for Joyce Di Donato rethinking her participation. I’m sure the only reason she is not there is because she is sick.
‘Tomorrow is a shocking day for the United States.’
Yeah, democracy is such a terrible thing.
I could not take more than “My follow Amercians” ugh. Don’t tell Hilary about this disgrace.
This is not as entertaining as the assembly of “stars” singing “I shall survive”. As they are multi-millionaires many times over I am sure they will, unless their expensive drug habits intervene.
Point the first, just think if they’d put that much effort in campaigning for her in say Wisconsin they wouldn’t have to be holding the runner up-athon.
Point the second, After watching protestors last night on TV I am reminded of a wonderful turn of phrase by a reporter on the Economist. He was covering a climate summit in Copenhagen. He observed that being a waste
of time except for the “. . . Excellent truncheon work by the Danish plod on
the smellies. . . “
‘Point the first, just think if they’d put that much effort in campaigning for her in say Wisconsin they wouldn’t have to be holding the runner up-athon.’
Quite. Or if all those women, blacks and hispanics hadn’t preferred Trump despite the constant relentless negative campaigning against him.
WOW! WOW! WOW!
What a list of reactions, name callings, Left moralizing and simple rude stupidity! Needless to say, none of these singers are real “stars”. Let them do what they want. The country is NOT with them. REAL stars would not dirty themselves with a candidate under FBI investigation. And they did not.
As for these few, let them sing and compose their own blurb, it does not affect anything and does not touch anybody.
Speight Jenkins said it all. I am proud of these singers and Glen Roven.
These operatic people (so called “stars”) are poor schnooks! Wake up! Embrace the reality. It is much better than your utopian hopes!
These great singers are very brave. I am surprised all the same that the reaction in this blog is so negative. I would have never expected it from music lovers, and delivered with such aggression.
We do enjoy fine music and the work and dedication it takes to produce it. But it is no different that a great plumber or mechanic, I appreciate them as well. I don’t need my mechanic telling me his political views nor my plumber outlining why he hates my candidate in solder on the floor.