Interesting reality check for singers

musicprnt
Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:10:58 +0000

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You are correct, opera singers and other classical performers often showed up on the tonight show and similar shows, Beverly Sills in particular used to be on more then a few times, Obviously Pavarotti did, and I believe others routinely would show up. On the classical side, Yo Yo Ma has done his share of talk shows, and Itzak Perlman used to appear on the Tonight show and such years ago. I haven’t seen it in recent years (not that I watch talk shows much) but I suspect there is very little visibility for most classical artists. The one exception I can think of is the Colbert Report, saw Yo Yo Ma on there and Lorin Maazel after the Philharmonic went to North Korea several years ago.