[Buoso Donati]

Angel Blue to Receive 2023 Wharton Arts Lifetime Achievement Award - OperaWire

Grammy Award-winning soprano Angel Blue will receive the 2023 Wharton Arts Lifetime Achievement Award for her many historic performances.

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[Parsifal98]

Has life expectancy suddenly dropped?

 

[Seattleoperafan]

She is big on PBS as an announcer but I am not that crazy about her voice. She is not in the same league as the black women singers from the 20th Century IMHO. If this is an American award I think it should go to Joyce Didonato as she has had some really spectacular stage successes and is already a teacher at Juliard and is 15 years older than Angel, but still really too young for this honor. Why not 96-year-old Leontyne Price? That would have made her day in the senior home. Or perhaps Frederica von Stade???

 

[Woodduck]

Well, she's singing Violetta on the Met's broadcast next Saturday. Maybe they're expecting an actual death at the end.

 

[ColdGenius]

She's 38. Cleopatra at her age was in a grave already.

 

[Buoso Donati]

It was an asp that took "Cleo" at such a young age.

 

[SanAntone]

Has life expectancy suddenly dropped?

I think this award is acknowledgement of the not insignificant achievements she has already accomplished at a relatively young age. I think she is great and enthusiastically applaud this gesture and wish her continued success for many years to some.

 

[Tsaraslondon]

I think this award is acknowledgement of the not insignificant achievements she has already accomplished at a relatively young age. I think she is great and enthusiastically applaud this gesture and wish her continued success for many years to some.

That may well be true, and I wouldn't want to take anything away from her achievements, but I've always thought a Lifetime Achievement Award should go to someone who has aleady had a long career or has possibly retired.

 

[Barbebleu]

That may well be true, and I wouldn't want to take anything away from her achievements, but I've always thought a Lifetime Achievement Award should go to someone who has aleady had a long career or has possibly retired.

Yeah, there’s a clue in the title!😂

 

[Seattleoperafan]

It was an asp that took "Cleo" at such a young age.

One lady wrote to an online vet and asked why her python was lining up beside her in bed as she slept. He said he was sizing her up for lunch

 

[MAS]

It depends on what the qualifications are for this award. Nevertheless, “Lifetime Achievement“ suggests the end of a life, or at least long years in the biz.

 

[SanAntone]

A quote from the organization: "The Wharton Arts Lifetime Achievement Award distinguishes individuals who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the performing arts and represent a beacon of inspiration to Wharton Arts' students."

What I found bothersome about this thread has been the overall snarky response with no acknowledgement of what the award actually signifies, as well as Angel Blue's career achievements.

 

[ColdGenius]

Maybe someone hints her that it's time to go.
Or that doubtful kind of PR she used eventually bore fruit.

 

[Woodduck]

A quote from the organization: "The Wharton Arts Lifetime Achievement Award distinguishes individuals who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the performing arts and represent a beacon of inspiration to Wharton Arts' students."

What I found bothersome about this thread has been the overall snarky response with no acknowledgement of what the award actually signifies, as well as Angel Blue's career achievements.

I don't think anyone means to denigrate Ms. Blue. Some of us just find the inflation (or corruption, or abuse) of language in "lifetime achievement" amusing. Why don't they just call it the "Wharton Arts Distinguished Achievement Award" if they want to bestow it on kids (asking as a 73-year-old who could have grandchildren in their thirties)? Mozart and Schubert may have deserved "lifetime" awards at her age, but we can hope that she'll be around for a long time yet. What will they call the award they'll give her when she's actually had a full lifetime?

 

[SanAntone]

I agree the title is misleading but the Wharton School is recognizing someone whom is closer to the age demographic of the students for them to have heard of her, as well as set an example for the students - while she is still in the prime of her career.

Paul Shaffer was a previous recipient, also on the young side, and because of his gig on the David Letterman Show an artist the students would know.

This award is not a standard "lifetime achievement award" so much as a way the school can honor some exemplary artists they wish to highlight for their students. Far all I know these artists may be alumni of Wharton.

 

[Buoso Donati]

Agree with Woodduck.

 

[MAS]

According to her bio, she did not attend Wharton, but won beauty competitions, won several prizes, won the Operalia competition for Zarzuela (1st) & Opera (2nd) among many others, a Grammy and some European prizes. I’ve never heard her sing, though she’s sung in San Francisco (Bess).

 

[Woodduck]

According to her bio, she did not attend Wharton, but won beauty competitions, won several prizes, won the Operalia competition for Zarzuela (1st) & Opera (2nd) among many others, a Grammy and some European prizes. I’ve never heard her sing, though she’s sung in San Francisco (Bess).

I listened to her on YouTube and thought her voice quite good. I'm guardedly eager to hear her Violetta on Saturday.

 

[Shaughnessy]

I listened to her on YouTube and thought her voice quite good. I'm guardedly eager to hear her Violetta on Saturday.

 

[Woodduck]

Ahhhhhh... Well... Thanks, I guess...

A bit, ummm, undisciplined, don't you think?

Saturday, March 11, 10:00 EST. We shall see...