A soprano turns sour
NewsThe US soprano Alessandra Marc is getting a little overheated about the upcoming election.
Her latest social media spouts include:
IF YOU’RE STUPID AND GULLIBLE ENOUGH TO VOTE FOR KAMALA , YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMILY AND CHILDREN ARE SO BADLY SCREWED THAT YOU WILL REGRET THE DAY SHE SUCKERED YOU ALL INTO VOTING FOR HER ..LYING ABOUT ALL THE GOOD SHE DID…BECAUSE SHE DID NOTHING BUT DESTROY AND CONTROBUTE TO THE MURDERS& RAPES OF YOUR CHILDREN & LOVED ONES…STUPID!!!
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KAMALA LIED FOR 4 YEARS TO US ALL WHILE LETTING TERRORISTS POUR INTO OUR …RAPISTS…MURDERERS…..DRUG SMUGGLERS…SHE IS MUCH MUCH WORSE THAN HER JOE BIDEN….AND SHE IS NOT A BLACK WOMAN AT ALL…HER HERITAGE COMES FROM INDIA AND JAMAICA …SHE IS A LYINGBITCH AND EVIL ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE…NO WOMAN IN HER RIGHT MIND SHOULD VOTE FOR HER…NOR SHOULD ANY WOMAN OF COLOR …..IN FACT, BETCHA SHE IS REMOVED AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AND MICHAEL OBAMA HER REPLACEMENT, ANOTHER LIAR AND DECEIVER…A TRANS WOMAN TELLING US ALL SHE IS A NATURAL ONE…LIAR !!!
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And: KAMALA HARRIS = THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST!
She’s been doing this for years and clearly lost the plot. She’s one of J.D. Vance’s “crazy cat ladies” her legacy besmirched.
I have no quibble with your assessment of her sanity, however Mr Vance referred to “childless cat ladies” (childless not crazy). Another unfunny remark from the least qualified and least likeable candidate for VP in living memory (maybe Spiro Agnew is in living memory for some – Nixon wouldn’t allow him in the Oval Office – a good suggestion for Mr Vance).
I didn’t know that about Agnew. I well recall the Private Eye cover after the election.
“No-one’s gonna shoot me with Spiro T Agnew next in line.”
There’s a lot more about Agnew in Dwight Chapin’s book “The President’s Man.” Most interesting is his description of Nixon’s work ethic – he would shut himself in the Oval Office from 2-5 and permit no disturbances (unless an emergency). With a pile of yellow pads he read and made notes for 3 hours every day. He probably did more work in a day than Trump did in a month.
And yet he will be POTUS.
What specific accomplishments of Trump do you find disagreeable?
I would argue that the badly misjudged selection of a patently absurd running mate was a not-insignificant factor in John McCain’s loss as well, just as I hope it will be for the current candidate as well.
Cry more.
It looks like ssomeone is off her meds again.
Though I question what this I has to do with “classical music” other than it comes from a singer.
Why on earth do you give this deranged drivel any publicity?
Of couse the fact that it is in italics and capital letters makes it that much truer.
Wow, what low notes!
Finally Ms. Marc found her low notes. She never had them when trying to sing.
If you flipped this the other way round, politically, and translated it into UK terms, you could basically publish it as an editorial in Opera magazine.
Perhaps the singer should make a comeback in a program of mad scenes.
It would appear that someone is off their meds.
Other than it is a comment from a (it would appear) former singer what exactly does this have to do with “classical music”? I would
Sorry if this is a repeat but I am having problems with the comment area on my mobile devises. Surely Slipped Disc should be one place were we could avoid the circus of US politics.
Where to begin…racist, homophobic, delusional…on and on.
This is screed beyond anger. This is why there are mental health professionals who can prescribe drugs.
Sounds like she is already on drugs.
A soprano should not sound this shrill.
Stupid **and** illiterate. What a piece of work!
Why is this on Slipped Disc? Sure it is over the top, but I essentially agree with much of the substance. I don’t see Norman quoting all the stupid and over the top nonsense emanating from leftist musicians and artists. Kamala has expressed solidarity with the viscous protesters on US campuses. And don’t come back with the fact that Kamala’s husband is Jewish. So is Bernie Sanders and so were Kapos.
Trumptard rubbish..and as a jew, i could throw up reading such dreck.
Is that a typo? Did you mean ‘Trumpturd’?
Better still!!!! Thank you!!!!
“As a Jew”. Classic preface to a statement coming from leftist Jews who align themselves with enemies of Israel you might be good at reading music but history not so much
Enjoy your Alessandra Marc next concert of maga scenes.
You don’t understand the Kapo question, either.
Wow!
Wow! That’s over the top.
Question – I wonder what “Michael Obama” thinks about this. You gotta love it when autocorrect intervenes.
Sadly, I believe “Michael” is what Ms. Marc intended to write, followed by “A TRANS WOMAN TELLING US ALL SHE IS A NATURAL ONE”.
I do have sympathy for someone so far down the rabbit hole. You have wonder what else goes on in her brain? There is help.
It wasn’t autocorrect. It’s intended as an insult, explained by what follows after the ellipsis – calling the former First Lady a trans woman. It’s a long-running conspiracy theory, sadly.
Up there with PizzaGate and the birth sex of Brigitte Macron.
The Right just has nothing else but conspiracy theories.
https://rumble.com/v4x8asu-big-mike-obama-song.html
So many ranty capital letters. Is that how she sings?
she doesn´t sing anymore.
Sorry, didn’t realize she was so mentally and morally deranged. In any case she is nothing more than an overweight far from beautiful has-been – or in reality “never-was”, deservedly forgotten following her exceedingly short “prime”.
Not to defend in any way her comments, Ms. Marc did have an international career for over 20 years with major opera houses and symphony orchestras. Commenting on her weight or looks is despicable, regardless of how you feel about her political views. Rather low.
Maybe in her prime for about 3 of those years. And the demise of her career is not at all un-related to her appearance since her actual vocal qualities were not all that impressive compared to others in her fach. Or her non–existent acting abilities.
And when exactly did you hear her in person?
Chicago – Elektra in 1995.
She was an absolutely glorious singer. It is dismaying to witness these outbursts from her.
Please spare us of such dreck…one doesn´t want to be bothered by the fascist,racist rants of a deranged has been.
A has been – or a never was?
I read something about how she suffered a serious injury some years ago that effectively derailed her career. Probably has plenty of time now to sit in front of the computer and self-radicalize.
Poor woman. She is long finished in more ways than one.
” You have a point, an idiotic point.”
Happy Birthday, Alessandra!
I LOOKED AT HER FB PAGE. SHE LIKES TO USE ALL CAPS.
I have that too sometimes, a key gets stuck and all you can do is continue working.
Sally
We should all chip in for a functioning keyboard. Or not.
She even “sang” in all caps. She was loud, one cannot take that one away from her, but uninteresting musically and dramatically.
Inelegantly expressed but substantively and indisputably correct. Nonetheless, it doesn’t belong here. How many unhinged rants in support the ideologically opposite of Marc’s views are published here? None and this should not be either. Take it down, keep it to music.
What do you mean correct? What’s wrong with you? Hopefully Kamala can sue her.
I doubt it is something Ms. Harris hasn’t heard before and as a mature person, she considers the source, if she gives it a second thought at all.
I had never ever heard of her until today. Why didn’t you leave it that way?
Take your meds.
What does this have to do with her singing?
“THIS ELECTION AIN’T OVER UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS”…
Who will have the last laugh Alessandra?
She can’t sing “no more.” Actually, she never quite did.
She may be “sour” and inappropriate to post such a screed, but a lot of people agree with what she wrote. Just sayin’…
Yes, and there is a mental health crisis.
What a surprise coming from a person of Russian origin!
People with IQ below room temperature, without character, honor, moral standards….Riff raff always supports riff raff…My fathers´family fled to the US in 1939 from Hitler´s fascism…Sad to see that the country who saved so many of us from fascism, willingly succumbs now to it.
The complaint the Kamala isn’t black enough seems insincere.
Same with Obama. I guess we need to institute a purity test.
The ‘black enough’ test is as offensive (to most people) as any other purity test. Can we all just get along?
Usually, a rant such as this is followed by a demand to speak to a manager.
Sounds like she has more health issues, other than her back/spine ailment.
Necrosis of the brain? Tourette’s syndrome?
Alessandra Marc had one of the greatest soprano voices of the last decade, but her career was limited (not because of being a large women – there had been others like Caballe, Hunter, Voigt at the same time), but it looks like that only “the light was there, but nobody was home”. Her current rant above confirmed my suspicions.
Maybe 3 decades ago, not “the last decade” and certainly not a great voice, simply a powerful one.
Rather overstated to say one of the greatest voices, certainly not of the last decade. She stopped singing staged opera more than 16 years ago. She sang only nine performances of two roles (Aida and Turandot) at the Met.
Not “of the last decade”, but rather of the last decade of the last century, i.e. 1990s. Besides, both Hunter and Caballe were a full generation older, so their prime was at least two decades earlier than that of Marc.
Oh dear! What happened to her? She was a well known singer in her time appearing in the leading opera houses often as an unsubtle but plausible Turandot, Aida etc. Did she go gaga following the loss of her career?
I played in a gala performance with her, many years ago…She was a real pain in the ass, behaving badly against her colleagues on and off stage.
I remember seeing her in a pair of galas in the Suntory Hall in Tokyo more than twenty years ago with the likes of Baltsa, Gwyneth Jones, Marton, Tomowa Sintow etc honoring the venerable Sasaki san founder of the Japan Performing Arts Foundation. Despite her large size, she was a cypher compared to the others on stage that night. The concert was huge fun, the highlight being the messy Ride of the Valkyres with the whole lot of them at full cry!
Again could you please explain why this is posted on here? Other than as click bait.
Need we repeat this rubbish?
What is most frightening is that millions of Americans believe this … Although I suspect few of them go to the opera.
Norman, please don’t pass on this type of hate (and ignorance) within this website. It ultimately serves no purpose, and some of your readers in the U.S. hear and read this kind of drivel on a daily basis. We would welcome a break from it all. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
This is a London-based website not American.
Just shows that classically trained musicians can be as stupid/gullible/gaslightable as any other educated group. . .
Are you seriously suggesting that she is a member of an educated group? What are the hooligans like then?
Can’t ever see Dame Janet Baker behaving like this.
About as coherent Rosanne Barr these days.
Don’t need a lecture from a failed “diva.”
Exactly!
If you don’t think that she makes a valid point, you are a naive optimist. The problem is that the alternative is not a paragon of virtues either. That is a tragic reality we are facing this year.
Not a paragon of virtue? The term is “convicted felon”.
Second fiddle’s a hard part I know
When they don’t even give you a bow
– Tom Lehrer
The word “not” isn’t there by accident, and my hope is that the simple art of ironic understatement is not beyond comprehension for most readers of this blog. Besides, the common sense wisdom by TL notwithstanding, seeing the difference between trials that are purely and explicitly politically driven and motivated – and anything resembling what we like to call true justice – should not be hard at all.
Ms. Marc “writings” are pure resentful drivel. Well represented by the agggrieved have beens that resent their loss of privilege and power over those that are different to them.
Freedom of speech and all that, but it doesn’t mean anyone has to pay to hear her sing.
Such hate coming from her FB page.
How does one become so unhinged and filled with hate and lies?
“How does one become so unhinged and filled with hate and lies?”
Disappointment
Needing to find some scapegoats instead of taking responsibility for her failures?
Well, honey – better stick to your day job (if in fact you still have one…) and yes, take those meds!
That’s far worse than John Eliot Gardiner’s smack. Words can be equally violent, and this is just disgusting. Fine, don’t like Democrats. Who else then have Americans chosen to compete? Trump and Vance?
She seems nice.
From JD Vance’s point of view? Trump’s? Etc. etc. etc.
Alessandra had a very good/quite promising career but I was warned by colleagues to avoid her a long time ago due to her suspected mental health problems. Really sad…I loved her large, beautiful voice, although it had some weaknesses in the lower registers. Her first husband became a trans woman as she detailed in interviews at the time.
YIKES…someone get her a sandwich…or 10 to 20
The opera and classical music world is filled with rabid racist misanthropic elitists. And they are supported and defended until the finally go crazy. I am waiting for Christian Thielemann to have his right wing meltdown.
Who is this crazy person ?
Americans!
Never mind all those equally unhinged colleagues she has in Europe
You are one crazy lady!
Amen!
Clearly she self-identifies with the crazy ladies she portrays in Opera. Or else she has just spent too much time with them…
She’s gone the all-caps route for her online posts, as if that gives them greater impact.
she is my friend and she is totally correct
You should prepare your next folie à deux concert!