Star cancels Salzburg to do more Pilates
NewsMessage from mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, who has withdrawn from singing Amneris in Aida:
My dear friends!
Since there is lots of misunderstanding and talks about my cancellations in last few months I wanted to let you know that I am well! My body is not in full singing shape after the birth of Lileana.
I had a Natural and difficult birth!
I still have terrible pain in my back sometimes and doing physiotherapy and pilates to help myself and my diaphragm to work again like before and even better!
My voice is healthy and sounds like always! I’ve been trying too hard since January to get back in shape but I will not be back till I feel that I am perfectly in shape! 💪🏽🙌🏼
So please stop inventing stories about me loosing my voice or nonsense like this!
I will be back very very very soon and I hope those who understand how difficult is to be a mother and singer will be there to support and give positivity!
Anita has been replaced by Eve-Maud Hubeaux. We wish her a speedy resumption.
“Star cancels Salzburg to birth recovery”. That would be a more true headline…although less showy.
The headline minimizes her postpartum difficulties, I think..
I wish a good recovery to Anita !!!
But , who is Eve Maud Hubeaux????
A person with their priorities straight, clearly. Take your time, Ms. Rachvelishvili, to fully recover…there are no do-overs in life. Just ignore the opera gossips; they unfortunately come with the job.
A belated congratulations on the birth of your daughter!
Bad timing, but why the fetish for ‘natural’ birth? Could it be compulsive performance?
I hope she recovers well. Verdi mezzos of her calibre don’t grow on trees these days.
Who is the misogynist who wrote the wretched headline?
Eva-Maud Hubeaux, 34, is a Swiss mezzo soprano who this year
performed at Wiener Stratsoper, Opera National de Paris, and Stratsoper Unter den Linden.
Rita Rink!
That would be Norman Lebrecht, who maintains an informative and interesting blog (Slipped Disc), whose headlines are all to often intended to attract the unfortunate trolls and in thereby doing reveals the limited seriousness and ability of the journalist/writer/bloger.
MEZZO-soprano -and a very good one!
What an appalling headline but I guess it’s how you get people to interact and comment and thereby be able to prove to Slipped Disc advertisers that there is engagement with this website.