14 October 2007

Nat a singer

Maury alerts us to Natalie Dessay's guest appearance on Charlie Rose, where she again claims to be not a singer but an actress first. More accurately, the label is "singing actress": doing the opera thing but with that burning ambition of graduating to the higher art form of theater ... someday. Metaphorically: I'm sitting (not so) quietly in my balcony box, and she's giving me the stiffest finger.