Okay... despite the fact that I shrugged this off on the first thread (we aren't so gossipy on this forum!), this second thread has a different tone.
What I like about Measha's non-singing work is how she provides an "other" face behind opera, one that isn't snobbish about art in general but is down-to-earth about it overall, for all persons (I'm thinking of her frequent presence on book-related CBC radio shows). I actually didn't know she'd changed her hair as well. Seeing her now, one doesn't feel like she's pushing quite so hard. I also have friends who are colleagues of hers.
By the same token, I've known who she is for nearly ten years. If I were 18 or 19, I'd probably also be tired of having mostly only one Canadian soprano put in my face as an example of the "opera singer" I was trying to be. She does seem to perform a lot of art song (I have not the affinity for it!) and out of the country, but I think that's a fault of what the public considers and "opera singer".
In the middle ground.... SOMEONE has got to speak up for mediocrity one can encounter in Canada's medical system. I realise that in HER case, it wasn't necessarily the malpractice to which she's softly inferring (Thanks TenorDoc), but I lost my father to a cancer that probably could have been diagnosed and treated, had my family not been considered country bumpkins who weren't worth of being 'bumped up' on the cancer center wait list, just because we weren't as local as other patients.
I don't blame the doctors, I blame the overloaded system. I just wish I knew what to do about it. At least Measha has the attention of media....
