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| Not since Al Jolson sang as an audience member to Ruby Keeler on stage... | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 06:12 pm EST 01/19/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 06:02 pm EST 01/19/22 | |
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| apparently spontaneously to help her singing "Liza" many years ago, the wonderful soprano Lisette Oropesa got unsolicited help from an audience member. Ms. Oropesa was singing "Sempre Libera" from "La Traviata" which during the aria, during an opera performance has the tenor Alfredo singing off-stage lines, but in concert these musical lines are played by the orchestra. A student tenor in the audience apparently must have thought the regular tenor was indisposed, because he started singing Alfredo's lines! Ms. Oropesa was surprised at first (shocked), then delighted, starting to bend her knees to see who was her duet partner. She greeted her tenor backstage afterwards; he appeared to later think he did something wrong. She handled things with real grace and class -- I can only imagine some other soprano's reaction! Good thing Kathleen Battle wasn't performing! But the conservatory where the guy trains or whoever brought up that guy apparently never taught him responsible audience behavior. Btw, opera house audiences usually have quite a few singers who have studied roles in operas they are seeing performed by others and who would, in theory, love to jump in, but you know, it's really not the thing to do. Again, kudos to Lisette Oropesa, who I had already really liked before this and who has gotten some well-deserved favorable publicity from this. |
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| re: Not since Al Jolson sang as an audience member to Ruby Keeler on stage... | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 05:20 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| In reply to: Not since Al Jolson sang as an audience member to Ruby Keeler on stage... - PlayWiz 06:02 pm EST 01/19/22 | |
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| it's a cute story, but I think it was way inappropriate for him to sing along. I'm glad Oropesa handled this with grace and even enjoyed the unexpected duet. But I hope his guilty conscience tells him that he shouldn't do that again lol. | |
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| re: Not since Al Jolson sang as an audience member to Ruby Keeler on stage... | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 06:19 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 06:18 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Not since Al Jolson sang as an audience member to Ruby Keeler on stage... - Chromolume 05:20 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
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| Can you imagine audiences speaking back to rhetorical questions next? I'm sure it happens though. Tevye: "A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no?" Audience Member: "Yeah, man, that's nuts! I have the name of a good shrink -- why you talking out loud to yourself?" | |
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| re: Not since Al Jolson sang as an audience member to Ruby Keeler on stage... | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 06:15 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 06:12 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Not since Al Jolson sang as an audience member to Ruby Keeler on stage... - Chromolume 05:20 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
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| The tenor came in about a measure after the tenor's vocal line would have started in the scene. Perhaps he made a snap judgment that someone missed their cue, and he started singing to supposedly to "save the day". But this was a solo vocal artist concert, and traditionally done in that forum without a tenor singing those lines--unless say it was a concert advertised with a soprano and a tenor on the bill perhaps. Yes, it's a fun story, certainly wonderful how Oropresa dealt with it (plus it helped the tenor has a good voice), but he really should be made to take a remedial course on proper audience etiquette. It's funny that you can also hear the camera operator (or someone close to the sound person) sing softly, but audibly to the microphone, a few words of the tenor line as well. So other people in the audience clearly know the piece to some extent. |
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| a/k/a soprano Lisette Oropesa singing aria from "La Traviata" and getting an audience member's impromptu singing. nm | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:02 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| In reply to: Not since Al Jolson sang as an audience member to Ruby Keeler on stage... - PlayWiz 06:02 pm EST 01/19/22 | |
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