What have you been listening to, lately?

**Schigolch** · May 20th, 2012, 09:01 PM

She is not Carmen.

**Schigolch** · May 21st, 2012, 09:18 AM

Benjamin Britten
PETER GRIMES

New production of Teatro alla Scala, 2012
Music director Robin Ticciati

Peter Grimes John Graham-Hall
Ellen Orford Susan Gritton
Captain Balstrode Christopher Purves
Auntie Felicity Palmer
Rev. Adams Christopher Gillett

**Anne of Green Gables** · May 21st, 2012, 05:42 PM

2009 Lohengrin: Jonas Kaufmann, Christof Fischesse, Michaela Schuster, Anja Harteros, Wolfgang Koch / Nagano

Nice pieces. Kaufmann, Harteros - great, rest is not bad too, but the Tellramund is such a yeller, more yeller than a singer. And even when he yells it's without any particular parthos and dramatic craft.

**Elektra** · May 21st, 2012, 10:34 PM

Lohengrin, but another version:

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**Dins** · May 22nd, 2012, 01:31 PM

Tirfing by Wilhelm Stenhammar.

This is an opera that that few opera fans had heard up to now. It premièred on the Royal Opera house in Stockholm, and played there from 1898-1901. After that it had not been played until 2011, when the opera in Malmö decided to revive it. Fortunately Swedish television recorded it, and it was shown on television on Sunday. Some critics described the music as Wagner light, and I agree.

Right now i am trying to listen to as much Swedish opera as I am able to find. Unfortunately the opera houses here in Sweden seldom plays domestic operas. For some of them i can understand why. Some are better left unplayed.

**Schigolch** · May 22nd, 2012, 01:38 PM

I have the broadcast of this opera, from Malmö, in October last year, in my computer, but I haven't yet listened to it...

**Aksel** · May 22nd, 2012, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by Dins

Tirfing by Wilhelm Stenhammar.

This is an opera that that few opera fans had heard up to now. It premièred on the Royal Opera house in Stockholm, and played there from 1898-1901. After that it had not been played until 2011, when the opera in Malmö decided to revive it. Fortunately Swedish television recorded it, and it was shown on television on Sunday. Some critics described the music as Wagner light, and I agree.

Right now i am trying to listen to as much Swedish opera as I am able to find. Unfortunately the opera houses here in Sweden seldom plays domestic operas. For some of them i can understand why. Some are better left unplayed.

BLAST! I zapped past it (on Saturday, though), meaning to watch it when my brother left, but alas he never did.

And the same thing goes for Norwegian opera, although there are supposed to be a few good ones.

**Schigolch** · May 22nd, 2012, 06:34 PM

**Anne of Green Gables** · May 22nd, 2012, 06:55 PM

Nice pieces, but quite crazy selection, all mixed up - Rossini between Wagner and Giordano.

**Soave_Fanciulla** · May 23rd, 2012, 07:32 AM

This is fantastic, especially the development of the tender relationship between Grimes and Ellen. This is a Grimes who is bullied into becoming a bully, a true tragedy. It's so good that after watching it on Youtube I bought the DVD.

**Anne of Green Gables** · May 23rd, 2012, 07:07 PM

Most of these are hardly romantic arias. But he sings it all so incredibly beautiful that I may even forgive him having such unapt title for his CD.

**Schigolch** · May 24th, 2012, 09:22 AM

**Dark_Angel** · May 25th, 2012, 01:22 AM

http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/...5/P1000927.jpg

Next few weeks going through my Naive Vivaldi collection........

If you force me to say which is my fav for now I choose:

**Soave_Fanciulla** · May 25th, 2012, 01:45 AM

Originally Posted by Dark_Angel

http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/...5/P1000927.jpg

Next few weeks going through my Naive Vivaldi collection........

If you force me to say which is my fav for now I choose:

Please tell me more - this is not one I .know