Watch: Vittorio Grigolo in spontaneous duet with LA street singer
mainGrigolo, while finishing a run of Hoffmann at LA Opera, heard a woman singing Puccini to a taped background on a street downtown. He stopped, joined her and threw in some coaching tips.
She told friends it changed her life.
Does anyone know her name?
have fun and let others have fun … any way this was creative of him ( and her) and hopefully he washed his hands before 😉
Or more likely, Vittorio and his PR team are bloodthirsty for publicity, publicity, publicity. And yet more publicity.
…… you’ve got a point though 🙂
Now she will sue him and say she was demeaned, humiliated, and inappropriately touched in front of her regular Santa Monica customers, and has a bruised neck, jaw problems, and lower self-assurance thanks to his reckless and unwanted interference.
may I kindly ask you if sexual harassment is included into the list ? 🙂
She has a beautiful, well-trained voice. She should be a cast member in a full time opera house. Sadly, this can’t happen in the USA which has fewer opera performances per capita than all other developed countries except impoverished Portugal.
Here’s a list of the 117 cities in the world that have more opera performances per year than Washington, D.C. (which has the 9th largest metro GDP in the world.) Only 4 of them are American. Notice that many of the cities are vastly smaller and less rich. (The listing is from Operabase, a site I highly recommend.)
Moscow had over 10 times more opera performances last year than Washington. Ironically, Peking had 57 Western opera performances, exactly the same number as Washington — the so called the capital of the Western World. Anyway, we see why this gifted woman is singing on the street.
Moscow
Wien
Berlin
London
St Petersburg
Budapest
Praha
Hamburg
New York
Dresden
Paris
München
Stockholm
Zurich
Frankfurt
Stuttgart
Sydney
København
Hannover
Madrid
Mannheim
Venezia
Leipzig
Wiesbaden
Wroclaw
Brno
Dusseldorf
Amsterdam
Aachen
Roma
Bratislava
Ekaterinburg
Köln
Oldenburg
Linz
Milano
Regensburg
Ulm
Salzburg
Nürnberg
Firenze
Coburg
Essen
Toronto
Karlsruhe
Bremen
Lyon
Kassel
Minsk
Barcelona
Erfurt
Riga
Oslo
Kyiv
Schwerin
Plzen
Magdeburg
Lubeck
Glyndebourne
Napoli
Ostrava
Bonn
Halle
Warszawa
Vilnius
Münster
Poznan
Pforzheim
Tel Aviv
Innsbruck
Torino
Duisburg
Ljubljana
Saarbrucken
Houston
San Francisco
Weimar
Neustrelitz
Tallinn
Verona
Krakow
Bruxelles
Bielefeld
Göteborg
Graz
Meiningen
Bucuresti
Odessa
Ruse
São Paulo
Buenos Aires
Kiel
Palermo
Basel
Tokyo
Chicago
Melbourne
Bydgoszcz
Sofia
Hagen
Liège
Lodz
Genève
Braunschweig
Szeged
Luzern
Mainz
St Gallen
Chemnitz
Detmold
Passau
Bologna
Klagenfurt
Cagliari
Beijing
Giessen
Beograd
She does have a beautiful voice, and you are right as always about our poor arts funding.
Lodz has a stabbed-in-the-back L, making it Woo-dj, I think.
I love it
He has a very well trained voice, possibly was giving decent coaching. Interesting that she is very audible and he seems not to have any volume at all. But for goodness sake, he should have broadcast her name!
I was there and it was simply amazing.
He was not singing but just marking giving her the space to sing a project the sounds he wanted to ;))))) super !!!!