What have you been listening to, lately?

**Schigolch** · January 26th, 2012, 05:41 PM

**Soave_Fanciulla** · January 26th, 2012, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by Schigolch

Is this based on the Zola book, Shigolch?

**Soave_Fanciulla** · January 26th, 2012, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by Schigolch

You know, Ms. Bacelli is a nice singer, and could do a good job singing Tamerlano in Halle. This is not the case at Teatro Real, a much bigger venue (in terms of size), where her voice is just desperately inadequate to fill this big house.

One of the joys of DVD is that you don't have to worry too much about size of voice vis-à-vis theatre size. She sounded great to me on both recordings. That said I would have liked to see the second cast too.

**Almaviva** · January 27th, 2012, 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by Schigolch

http://www.kareol.es/obras/ariadna/acto1.htm

Great, thanks. I'll try again, with the libretto, paying more attention this time.

**Schigolch** · January 27th, 2012, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by Soave_Fanciulla

Is this based on the Zola book, Shigolch?

Yes, and the libretto is written by Max Brod.

We have commented the unhappy career of Gurlitt, with his two major works, Wozzeck and Die Soldaten, being overshadowed by Berg and Zimmermann versions. This Nana is interesting, but musically clearly inferior to Gurlitt's previous operatic efforts.

**Schigolch** · January 29th, 2012, 04:06 PM

**Soave_Fanciulla** · January 29th, 2012, 07:05 PM

I watched Le Cid on Youtube with Alagna And Beatrice Uria-Monzon here. This is the only version I've seen as it unfortunately does not exist on DVD (Why not?).

Alagna was fine, I just wallow in his glorious French, but Uria-Monzon steam-rolled her way through the role, big voice with heavy vibrato singing with no finesse whatsoever. So I'm resting my ears with this now that I know the plot:

**Dark_Angel** · January 29th, 2012, 08:38 PM

Almost no studio recordings exist for Gencer, these two live recordings at least have better sound than usual

**Schigolch** · January 30th, 2012, 08:04 PM

**Soave_Fanciulla** · January 31st, 2012, 12:06 AM

Someone needs to tell Dario Fo that less is more, and filling your stage with people dressed as animals, funny men with false tummies, real rockets and endless lovely women in various stages of undress and contortion, doesn't really help your singers make a big impression.

Despite that this guy stood out for me, battling out against the endless distractions to make a lovely sound:

**Anne of Green Gables** · January 31st, 2012, 07:39 PM

That wonderful Rigoletto with Demuro, Machaidadiaaizdze and Nucci. It's really great. I surely hope to hear Demuro on some real recording, preferably from studio, such handsome voice and singing manners much above current standards when it comes to tenors. I actually liked his Duke more than one by Kraus (and that's a lot since I'm huge fan of Kraus). Machaiaidziaaiadze is entirely convicing Gilda as well, loved her Caro Nome. Nucci provides insightful interpretation of his character, yet I would complain that he had some problems with high notes here. I think that he even missed one in his final AH, LA MALEDIZIONE cry. But nevertheless he doesn't fall under certain level that I expected him to keep.