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With her shimmery voice, a penchant for  heels and a resume that includes a cameo in the 鈥淗annibal鈥?movie and a duet with  at , soprano  is blurring the lines between opera and pop star, positioning herself as a new diva for the digital age.
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"Well, did you know that words really can hurt you?" he asks.
鈥淚 want to see the day when opera singers are on Letterman and ,鈥?said de Niese, in between rehearsals for 鈥淧artenope,鈥?which opens Wednesday in San Francisco. 鈥淧eople say opera is not changing with the times, but with iTunes and YouTube it can be seen and downloaded and heard everywhere. Pop groups like Il Divo are singing with operatic sound.鈥?
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As the lead soprano of 鈥淧artenope,鈥?de Niese portrays a -esque doyenne of French salon society, who toys with men and women for sport, until her heart thwarts her. It鈥檚 a role that requires a strong woman with the gift of glam, who has the power to seduce by sheer force of her personality.
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Cut to a scene on a ranch where a frantic woman runs yelling, "Jesse, don't go!"
Not much of a stretch for the captivating de Niese, 35, dubbed 鈥渙pera鈥檚 coolest soprano鈥?by the . She鈥檚 a powerhouse singer who has acting ability, a stage performer who has a recording contract, and a model of Sri Lankan, Dutch and Scottish heritage who has enough stage presence to win an Emmy at 16.
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She even lives like a real princess: Her home is Glyndebourne in Sussex, a 600-year-old English manor with its own 1,200-seat opera house, where she lives with her husband, , chairman of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
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"I'm sorry, Daisy," he says. "But I'm a loner, and a loner's got to be alone."
De Niese, who debuted with the  when she was 15, adores being a diva 鈥?but only onstage.
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Singing for refugees
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He rides off on his horse, as she wails, but then suddenly there's a sound like a gunshot and he falls off his horse.
Born in Australia, and schooled in Los Angeles, at 18 she became the youngest singer ever accepted on to the Lindemann Young Artist Program at the , where she made her debut as Barbarina in 鈥淟e nozze di Figaro.鈥?
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Her career has rocketed her to Zurich, Paris, the Netherlands and Japan. But she also finds time to sing at refugee camps in Tanzania, as an ambassador for the . This year she toured a group of young resettled refugees from Nepal and Sierra Leone backstage at the Met, and in England, she sang for disadvantaged children and helped them create their own interpretation of 鈥淢adame Butterfly, as part of her volunteer work with the Prince鈥檚  and the Arts.
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WTF? Who shot him? What did this have to do with "Words really can hurt you"? Some kind of cosmic payback for hurting her with his words? Every time I stupidly found himself watching the dopey thing again, I knew I must be missing something.
Traditionalists criticized her when she appeared as a judge on the British TV show, 鈥淧opstar to Operastar,鈥?a singing competition in which pop stars try to sing classical opera.
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鈥淚 took a lot of flak for that,鈥?she said, 鈥渂ut I feel it is my obligation, my responsibility, my calling, to be the legitimate singer on that show, to show people what a real opera singer does.鈥?
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Then it hit me.
Opera is for everybody, said de Niese, who walked on the Carnegie Hall stage in 2012 wearing a  fishtail gown for a CBS gala and busted into 鈥淟a Traviata,鈥?while LL Cool J translated her lyrics in raps in what has to be the first hip-hopera ever performed.
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鈥淧eople just don鈥檛 see me coming,鈥?she said.  
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(Reminds me of a T-shirt I saw: "I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, then it hit me.") 
But from a young age, de Niese knew exactly where she wanted to go. Her mother was her first teacher, giving her singing and dancing lessons in the living room.
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At age 9, she persuaded her parents to enter an Australian TV talent show similar to 鈥淎merican Idol鈥?called 鈥淵oung Talent Time,鈥?and won by singing a  medley. She took home $5,000, a baby grand piano, and the honor of being the youngest winner ever in the show鈥檚 history. A year later, the family moved to Los Angeles, where she enrolled at the , which specializes in educating talented children.  
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If you haven't seen the ad, watch it first, to see if you get the joke.
At 11, she was featured on a weekly television show for teenagers, 鈥淟.A. Kids.鈥?
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鈥淚t was like a '60 Minutes鈥?for kids; it had serious stories about kids living with AIDS, that sort of thing,鈥?she said.  
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For those still similarly stymied, let's spell things out step by step.
Honing her skills
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She did so well that the producers invited her to be a regular guest host, for which she won her Emmy at 16. But her heart was always in singing. Over the next decade, she honed her operatic skills with noted vocal teacher , and in 1997, she enrolled at the in Manhattan.  
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Her career took off so fast, she left school for the stage. Since then, she鈥檚 recorded six albums, including a collection of Handel arias that topped the 2007 iTunes classical music chart, and most recently, a 2011 album called 鈥淏eauty of the Baroque.鈥?
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Her banker father, and her mother, who manages the American division of a Swiss vitamin company, rack up frequent-flier points attending all her opening nights.  
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First, Jessie is riding off.
鈥淒anni is just extraordinary,鈥?said 鈥淧artenope鈥?director . 鈥淪he鈥檚 an actress, dancer, and she uses all her expressive tools to bring a new paradigm to modern opera.鈥?
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Meredith May is a
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staff writer. E-mail:  Twitter: @meredithmaysf
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Partenope: Wednesday-Nov. 2. War , 301 Ave., S.F. (415) 864-3330. .
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As he rides, the words "THE END" fade in across the screen.
A panel discussion with 鈥淧artenope鈥?cast members will be held at 6 p.m. Monday at Chorissima Hall, Kanbar , 44 Page St. sfopera.com/insights.<p>Related Articles:</p><ul><li><a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com>Celine Handbags Outlet</a></li><li><a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-new-arrivals-35>Celine Bags New Arrivals</a></li><li><a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-trapeze-bags-36>Celine Trapeze Bags</a></li></ul>
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"THE END" gets more, well, "solid," as Jesse's head is clearly positioned in front of the "E" in "END."
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Then Jesse apparently smacks his head on the letter "E." (Could be "THE END" for Jesse, too.)
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And that's how words can hurt you.
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I had mistakenly regarded the words "THE END" as irrevelant, and now I almost find the joke hilarious.
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More of a "BOING" sound and letters that shook more would have helped. Or maybe the "E" could have cracked.
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Another mystery of life solved.
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Contact staff writer Peter Mucha at 215-854-4342 or pmucha@phillynews.com. Follow on Twitter.
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Revision as of 06:06, 30 October 2014

@@@ "Well, did you know that words really can hurt you?" he asks.

Cut to a scene on a ranch where a frantic woman runs yelling, "Jesse, don't go!"

"I'm sorry, Daisy," he says. "But I'm a loner, and a loner's got to be alone."

He rides off on his horse, as she wails, but then suddenly there's a sound like a gunshot and he falls off his horse.

WTF? Who shot him? What did this have to do with "Words really can hurt you"? Some kind of cosmic payback for hurting her with his words? Every time I stupidly found himself watching the dopey thing again, I knew I must be missing something.

Then it hit me.

(Reminds me of a T-shirt I saw: "I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, then it hit me.") 

If you haven't seen the ad, watch it first, to see if you get the joke.

For those still similarly stymied, let's spell things out step by step.


First, Jessie is riding off.


As he rides, the words "THE END" fade in across the screen.


"THE END" gets more, well, "solid," as Jesse's head is clearly positioned in front of the "E" in "END."


Then Jesse apparently smacks his head on the letter "E." (Could be "THE END" for Jesse, too.)

And that's how words can hurt you.

I had mistakenly regarded the words "THE END" as irrevelant, and now I almost find the joke hilarious.

More of a "BOING" sound and letters that shook more would have helped. Or maybe the "E" could have cracked.

Another mystery of life solved.

Contact staff writer Peter Mucha at 215-854-4342 or pmucha@phillynews.com. Follow on Twitter.

 

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