So Figaro walks into a Salzburg bar and orders a large flute
OperaFirst picture from the new Nozze di Figaro with Sabine Devieilhe as Susanna and Krzysztof Bączyk as Figaro.
photo: SF/Matthias Horn
Comments
MOST READ TODAY:
-
Orchestras
Berlin Phil oboe’s US class arouses disquiet
A social media activist has circulated a video…
-
Orchestras
Maestro quits abruptly in Spain
The orchestra of Spain’s poorest region has just…
-
RIP
Vienna mourns principal ballerina
The Vienna State Opera has posted a death…
-
News
Fat soloists need not apply
Jessica Duchen has an eye-catching provocation in the…
Cheers to Sabi and Krzy!
I’ll bite! So what’s the punch-line???
A guy goes into a bar with his dog, puts the dog on the bar, and tells the bartender that this is a talking dog. Naturally, the bartender doesn’t believe him; so the guy starts asking the dog questions.
“What’s on top of a house?”
“Ruff” says the dog.
“What part of a plant grows underground?”
“Root” says the dog.
“Who’s the greatest New York Yankee of all time?”
“Root” says the dog again.
So the bartender grabs both of them by the neck and throws them out of the bar and into the middle of the street.
The dog looks at the man and says, “Do you think I should have said DiMaggio?”
(Now that’s a joke with a punch-line!)
Looks awful!
Povero Mozart
Cue the negative comments by those who don’t even know which scene they’re looking at, let alone what the concept of the production might be.
Looks like whisky to me. Hardly a flute in sight, let alone a “large flute” !
Perhaps Papageno wandered in and was singing “Fin ch’chan dal vino” at the end of the bar. Two flutes for the price of none!
Maybe it’s a Magic Flute
Most bars that stock cheap booze that don’t have labels on the bottles, keep them hidden out of sight UNDER the counter.
Not as bad as hearing the storm and the saga of the endangered galley at the start of Otello, and then seeing Otello and Desdemona arriving on the platform of a railway station with their suitcases. Sydney Opera House some years ago, with Simone Young conducting a Storm as powerfully as Toscanini.