and no sips from water bottles on piano.
Well, gee, good for her. [insert facetious emoticon here.]
Maybe you find the water bottles distracting, and that's fine. But water is important, especially in a long recital. and even in the old days, singers often took the advantage of leaving the stage between numbers or sets to get water. Just that nowadays it's somehow become more permissive to have water out in the open, and I for one don't mind that.
Opera houses even find ways to hide access to water in the productions' sets, for characters that don't leave the stage often. HD audiences got a good glimpse of this when the recent Met production of Elektra was broadcast in theatres a few seasons back - when "straws" were literally built into the side walls of the set so that soprano Nina Stemme could get water when needed. You wouldn't notice this sitting in the house, but the intimacy of the HD cameras picked it up.
So really, do we NEED to complain about singers taking sips of water, no matter how it's done? ;-) |
