{"id":7106,"date":"2013-05-13T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2013-05-13T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:08:08","slug":"natalie-dessay-disarms-and-charms-as-cleopatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/natalie-dessay-disarms-and-charms-as-cleopatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Dessay Disarms and Charms as Cleopatra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dessay has not been comfortable on the Metropolitan Opera stage recently. \u00a0In productions by a theater director who did not understand the opera form, her voice too was often challenged. \u00a0Now working with the great British opera director, Sir David McVicar, Dessay is at the top of her form. \u00a0During the run of Handel’s Giulio Cesere in New York she regularly practiced Iyengar yoga. \u00a0Her split pose imprecating Caesar, her drop to fixed-firm-flatback on the stage floor, all were as natural as her floated top notes and trills. Article <\/a>\"Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dessay has not been comfortable on the Metropolitan Opera stage recently. \u00a0In productions by a theater director who did not understand the opera form, her voice too was often challenged. \u00a0Now working with the great British opera director, Sir David … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t