Rolando Update, updated

Tic tac, tic tac, tic tac...

More on Rolando, Live in Athens...

Rolandito (apart from Onegin and Werther, already posted here)
will also sing "Tenda natal" from Ponchielli's "Il figliuol prodigo" and "Ah!fuyez, douce image" from Massenet's Manon.

***This is an update of the update, with more on the Recital***

Nino Machaidze will sing "Ah! Non credea mirarti - Ah! Non giunge" from La Sonnambula and Juliette's "Je veux vivre" and together with Rolando they will sing L' Elisir d' Amore duett and "Va! Je te pardonne" from Romeo et Juliette.

So, let's sum it up:

Rolando: Des Grieux (Massenet), Figliuol prodigo (Ponchielli), Onegin (Tchaikovsky), Werther (Massenet)

Nino: Juliette (Gounod) and Amina (Bellini)

And of course the 1.233.456 encores they 're gonna sing us as we will never let them leave the stage....won't we?

Oh! And still you can buy your Rolando t-shirt here and here and here for you kids (with Rolando's sketch on it- dammit, it's just kids-size...)

The Jonas Kaufmann Affair

It seems that Athens is the winner of the Jonas Kaufmann Affair!

Let's see briefly what happened:

The Athens Megaron announces Jonas Kaufmann in a Recital in Athens on the 15th of January.

The athenians cheer "Hooray hooray, let's hear it for Jonas!".

Then Parsi finds out that it's not official and that Jonas has not signed yet and that he 's not sure about the date etc etc. Parsi warns about the Megaron announcing crap (the same happened with the Greek National Opera that announced a Recital with Dimitra Theodossiou that she had never signed for).

Then Jonas gets a proposal for the Opernball at Dresden for the 16th of January (15/1 Athens, 16/1 Dresden) and of course even if he is Clark Kent and sings like Superman, he can't do both.

Clark, i mean Jonas, thinks thinks thinks and he decides: Athens it is!

I hadn't felt so happy since the day that Juan Antonio Samaranch had announced that the 2004 Olympics would be hosted by Athens.
Yeah!