It’s all Long Long now, not Lang Lang
mainThe Chinese lyric tenor Long Long, 28, was pronounced winner of the Neue Stimmen competition on German television last night.
A member of the Opera Studio at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, he recently joined Staatsoper Hannover.
The women’s section was won by a Russian soprano, Anna El-Khashem, 23.
Norman, also when it’s not a female conductor, you also have to mention the fabulous 23-year-old soprano Anne El-Khashem who won the first prize of the women category of NEUE STIMMEN yesterday.
Fabulous? I found Anna absolutely dreadful! Not worthy the 1st place at all. Not to mention that her father is a very influential RUSSIAN oligarch which makes it even more suspicious…
Did you even listen to the french soprano Helena Carpentier? She didn’t get any prize… what a shame.
Kudos. Dreadfully slow, but he went the distance.
But does he practice 40 hours a day like Ling Ling?
Surely there must be a singer with greater breath control by the name of Lung Lung?
There is no 40 hours a day. ????
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The young tenor from China is also a finalist of last year’s Operalia. I found his singing beautiful and elegant.
Here is him singing Faust’s aria “Salut ! Demeure chaste et pure” at the Operalia finals concert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpyksROGrA
and not a single singer on the jury!
Indeed! Astonishing.
It’s the end phase for our societal order.
It’s all about power. The gloves are off.
You do something well, know something well? Irrelevant. Now it’s only about power.
‘Are you useful for someone with power’ is the only question young professionals need to ask themselves.
It’s a poisoned dirty water, come in, have a swim…
(I suppose Meyer was in charge of forming the jury?)
That may be a fair comment but one of the key jury members for many years has been Brian Dickie, with many decades experience as a distinguished opera administrator at Glyndebourne and Artistic Chief at Wexford, Canadian Opera and the Opera Co. of Chicago. I doubt if there is much, if anything, he does not know about “the voice”!
It’s still bash bash for Lang Lang.