What have you been listening to, lately?

[Anne of Green Gables]

I feel it's obligatory to mention every time the Kaufmann Lohengrin pops up

Lohengrin pops up? He is supposed to arrive by boat drifted by swan. I'm glad I didn't watch that production.

[Aksel]

Lohengrin pops up? He is supposed to arrive by boat drifted by swan. I'm glad I didn't watch that production.

Pops straight out of the ground. Rather Erda-like.

[Schigolch]

[Anne of Green Gables]

Great these concert arias are.

[Schigolch]

[Anne of Green Gables]

Which are your favourite servant from the price's court in this.

Mine is the bald-on-the-top one with moustache and exuberant hair on the sides.

When they enter here at 6:27 he is the one changing sides of the column (Ponnelle knew he's the best one so he made him do that so everybody notices him) and then remains it's right side as third from the back:

[Aksel]

We have a similar taste in servants, Aramis.

[sospiro]

In anticipation of getting my Don Quichotte DVD I'm listening to this

[Soave_Fanciulla]

Spending a bit of time in the crusades at the moment.

[Schigolch]

[Anne of Green Gables]

I'm carrying a little personal project entitled DISCOVERING ROSSINI OPERAS THAT FLÓREZ DIDN'T RECORD, I've heard Ermione before but who would care, it's just a prelude to the the project. Very good recording, btw, musically I like it much more than DVD performance with Antonacci (only lack of Bruce Ford hurts).

[Almaviva]

I'm carrying a little personal project entitled DISCOVERING ROSSINI OPERAS THAT FLÓREZ DIDN'T RECORD, I've heard Ermione before but who would care, it's just a prelude to the the project. Very good recording, btw, musically I like it much more than DVD performance with Antonacci (only lack of Bruce Ford hurts).

Hey, and think that in the old days of Talk Classical, you were a fierce opponent of my assessment of Rossini as a musical genius.

[Anne of Green Gables]

Hey, and think that in the old days of Talk Classical, you were a fierce opponent of my assessment of Rossini as a musical genius.

Yes, but then Couchie came and replaced me on the position of Pretentious Wagnerite, so I was free to follow my true inclinations which led me to bel canto and similiar stuff that I'm into now.

[Almaviva]

Yes, but then Couchie came and replaced me on the position of Pretentious Wagnerite, so I was free to follow my true inclinations which led me to bel canto and similiar stuff that I'm into now.

Well, I can only say: "I told you so." And I'd add - "If only the youth listened to us, old geezers, in all our wisdom!"

[Anne of Green Gables]

Well, I can only say: "I told you so."

But you haven't.