The voice arrives already freighted with historical past, blackened, versatile, and unnervingly articulate, as if the textual content itself had been doing the singing. What lingers shouldn’t be quantity or menace however the sense of a thoughts unraveling in actual time, each phrase weighted with guilt and authority. Different nice basses provide you with vocal splendor; Christoff provides you a ruler who is aware of the crown is killing him.
Michael Landman-Karny
Michael M. Landman-Karny has been devouring Parterre Field for the reason that authentic ‘zine days, again when shade was nonetheless printed on precise paper. By day he crunches numbers in company finance, however his actual ardour is spilling ink concerning the arts for varied on-line publications and dropping cultural sizzling takes on Medium.
His operatic origin story is pure Parterre: Mama Landman-Karny’s water broke throughout Rostropovich’s legendary 1966 live performance, however Papa (a certifiable classical music obsessive) refused to budge from his seat. The carpets have since been changed, thank God.
When not analyzing stability sheets, Michael haunts theaters, jazz golf equipment, live performance halls, and opera homes from his unlikely base in Anaheim. (Sure, Mickey Mouse’s neighborhood, although he would not be caught lifeless at Disneyland.) His cultural pilgrimages have taken him to the standard suspects (New York, London, San Francisco, San Diego) plus the requisite European shrine cities: Milan, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Munich, and Bregenz. He has but to make it to Bayreuth, though he would relatively attend the Bayreuth Baroque competition than homicide his vertebrae on these legendarily uncomfortable Bayreuth Festspielhaus seats. His one burning remorse? By no means making it to the Mariinsky or Bolshoi earlier than Putin turned Russia again into the evil empire.
Areas of worship: opera (clearly), theater, ballet, jazz vocals, classical music and anything that requires sitting in uncomfortable seats and paying outrageous costs for transcendence.
