Did Anna Netrebko And Mercedes Bass Get A Contact High?

Netrebko and Bass post-concert at
Le Poisson Rouge (Photo: Facebook)

"They say the old culture-world distinction between uptown and downtown New York has vanished, but on Wednesday evening at Le Poisson Rouge, the Greenwich Village basement club, it still felt like a meeting of two disparate domains. There was delicious incongruence between the sight of Mercedes Bass, the Metropolitan Opera’s elegantly coifed vice chairwoman, and the unmistakable scent of marijuana just a few feet away. Ms. Bass and cannabis had descended the stairs for the latest in a series of concerts presented by the Met in collaboration with the indie-hip, intimate Le Poisson Rouge. The program, 'Russian Exoticism and ‘Prince Igor,’' was offered as a kind of promotion for the Met’s new production of 'Igor,' the Borodin masterpiece, which opens Feb. 6." [Source]

Contact High: Sona Ghazarian

La Traviata "Sempre libera"
Sona Ghazarian
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Diana Damrau

Europa Riconosciuta - "Ah, lo sento"
Diana Damrau
Riccardo Muti, Milan, 2004
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Montserrat Caballé

Don Carlo - Duet
Montserrat Caballé, Franco Corelli
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, NYC, 1972
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Leontyne Price

"God Bless America"
Leontyne Price
NYC, 2001
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Pilar Lorengar

Les Huguenots - Duet
Pilar Lorengar, Richard Leech
Richard Bonynge, Chicago, 1987
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Leona Mitchell

Manon Lescaut - "In quelle trine morbide"
Leona Mitchell
Japan, mid-90s
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Leyla Gencer

Monte Ivnor - "Non so, non so"
Leyla Gencer
Milan, 1957
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: June Anderson

La Sonnambula - "Ah, non giunge"
June Anderson
Julius Rudel, NYC, 1996
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Renée Fleming

I Puritani - "Nel mirarti un solo istante"
Renée Fleming
Julius Rudel, NYC, 1991
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Joan Sutherland

Idomeneo - "D'Oreste d'Aiace"
Joan Sutherland
Richard Bonynge, Sydney, 1979
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Maria Callas

Armida - "D'amore al dolce impero"
Maria Callas
Tullio Serafin, Firenze, 1952
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Ruth Ann Swenson

La Sonnambula - "Sovra il sen"
Ruth Ann Swenson
Christian Badea, NYC, 1994
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Ángeles Blancas

Semiramide - "Bel raggio lusinghier"
Ángeles Blancas
Teatro Real, Madrid, 2004
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con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.

Contact High: Catherine Malfitano

Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Trio
James Morris, Catherine Malfitano, Jean Kraft
James Levine, NYC, 1983
Clip length (0:37)

con·tact high [kon-takt hahy]: when you feel the slight, brief sensation of being high just because you were close to somebody that was definitely high.