I don't need a lot, only what I got, plus a tube o.HOW HAVE I waited this long to write about opera? Wife Dottie introduced me to its joys-and madness-quite a few years ago, and I’ve never looked back.įor neophytes, let me cite an opera T-shirt that reads “Life, Death, Love, Treachery, Adultery-All to Your Favorite Music.” This sums up my attraction to opera: the drama of life, distilled and set to music.Tells a saucy tale, makes a little stir.Not as much about torture, sodomy and death.Limehouse tarts, Burundi beats, dystopia, hunky po.I fear on the whole, an ingénue role would emphasi.Some things I hope don't turn up under the tree to.Now come on down and do what you've gotta do."Totty of the Day" #2 - double the fun!.Fire up the smoke machine and put on your heels.Miss Russell was born in London, lived in Canada, and retired to Australia, where she died at the ripe old age of 94.Īnna Russell (27th December 1911 – 18th October 2006) I can't help it if the story is absurd." In a significant show of support, however, the saintly Birgit Nilsson (one of the most lauded "Brünnhildes") recommended her students to listen to Russell's analysis of The Ring before tackling it.
Some po-faced devotees of Wagnerian opera publicly challenged her right to lampoon the great master, to which she replied: "I merely tell the story as accurately as possible and play the bits of music exactly as written. As well as Wagner, she laid comedic waste to the likes of Gilbert and Sullivan and the pretensions of operatic divas in a variety of singing styles. Anna Russell - The Ring of the Niebelung - an analysis, Part 3Īnna Russell was a magnificently talented woman - in my opinion, one of the funniest of all the one-woman-show comediennes this side of Hermione Gingold, she was actually a trained pianist, wind instrumentalist, composer and singer who discovered early on in her career that her true talent lay in operatic parody.
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