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Mar. 20th, 2002 06:17 amGot a call from the Cleveland Opera Society last night regarding next year's season. Th guy starts out with, "I see that you attended La Cerentola when it was here. What did you think?"
Me: "It was...all right."
Guy, with condescension in his voice: "Ah. You must be used to the Disney version?"
Rather lengthy pause.
Me, in chilly tones: "Uh, no. I know the opera quite well. I thought the tenor was a little off and the soprano mediocre. But it's not the Met, so I was being kind."
He went on to try and sell me season tickets, but had been so successfully off-putting at the beginning that I was really having trouble listening to his pitch. And next year is another season of relatively light fare, though they are doing Rigoletto this spring. I was hoping for a little more meat to my opera season now that we're in Cleveland.
Me: "It was...all right."
Guy, with condescension in his voice: "Ah. You must be used to the Disney version?"
Rather lengthy pause.
Me, in chilly tones: "Uh, no. I know the opera quite well. I thought the tenor was a little off and the soprano mediocre. But it's not the Met, so I was being kind."
He went on to try and sell me season tickets, but had been so successfully off-putting at the beginning that I was really having trouble listening to his pitch. And next year is another season of relatively light fare, though they are doing Rigoletto this spring. I was hoping for a little more meat to my opera season now that we're in Cleveland.
