Dame Joan Sutherland dies
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Re: Dame Joan Sutherland dies
Why didn't you include a link to an article? Here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101011/ap_ ... sutherland
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101011/ap_ ... sutherland
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Re: Dame Joan Sutherland dies
I'm rather ashamed to say that when I first looked at ajarn's post, I though it read "has died overweight in Switzerland"!
After she shot to stardom, she was certainly overweight. And she helped make a star out of another overweight personality in the opera world, Luciano Pavarotti. There's a lovely story in a book by Pavarotti's ex-manager, Herbert Breslin*. Breslin wanted to promote Pavarotti in recitals and not just in opera and concerts. He booked New York's Carnegie Hall for a debut. To give Pavarotti a 'dress rehearsal', he arranged for the same recital to be presented in Dallas a few nights beforehand and invited some of Pavarotti's friends, including Joan Sutherland.
After the recital, somewhat puffed from his exertions, he bumped into Joan in the Green Room. "Joan, dear, we fat people know how it is," he said, wiping his brow.
Joan gave him a cool stare in her best diva manner.
"Luciano," she said, "we are not fat. You are fat. I am big."
* The King & I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by HIs Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary
by Herbert Breslin and Anne Midgette
Doubleday
After she shot to stardom, she was certainly overweight. And she helped make a star out of another overweight personality in the opera world, Luciano Pavarotti. There's a lovely story in a book by Pavarotti's ex-manager, Herbert Breslin*. Breslin wanted to promote Pavarotti in recitals and not just in opera and concerts. He booked New York's Carnegie Hall for a debut. To give Pavarotti a 'dress rehearsal', he arranged for the same recital to be presented in Dallas a few nights beforehand and invited some of Pavarotti's friends, including Joan Sutherland.
After the recital, somewhat puffed from his exertions, he bumped into Joan in the Green Room. "Joan, dear, we fat people know how it is," he said, wiping his brow.
Joan gave him a cool stare in her best diva manner.
"Luciano," she said, "we are not fat. You are fat. I am big."
* The King & I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by HIs Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary
by Herbert Breslin and Anne Midgette
Doubleday