Reply With QuoteFreni and Pavarotti singing "O soave fanciulla" in Modena, in 1965:
Flórez singing "La donna è mobile" recently in Zurich
Freni and Pavarotti singing "O soave fanciulla" in Modena, in 1965:
This is the aria written by Richard Wagner for Pollione, performed during a production of Norma in 1837: "Norma il predisse, o Druidi", that was designed to replace "Ah! del tebro".
Mirentxu is an opera in the Basque language, written by Jesús Guridi and premiered in Bilbao, in 1910. One hundred years later, it was performed again, with a cast including soprano María Bayo.
There is also a version in Spanish, that we can hear in a performance from 1967, at Teatro de la Zarzuela:
Wisely, Mariella Devia had never sung Norma. This is a role that requires a vocality out of her reach (not that this fact had deterred in the past other singers, with even a less fitting vocality for Norma than Ms. Devia), but she usually sings Casta Diva in recitals. This rendition is recent, from year 2009 at Japan:
Caballe's final note in her Don Carlo with Corelli is legendary - here one can hear much shorter but impressively ringing one by Raina Kabaivanska, also with Corelli in title role:
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The legendary Tauber-Lehmann duet "Glück, das mir verblieb" from 1924, remasterized:
Yesterday, there was the first Adriana Lecouvreur's performance of a series running in May and June at Liceu, Barcelona. Barbara Frittoli, Daniela Dessì and Micaela Carosi will sing Adriana, while Roberto Alagna, Fabio Armiliato and Carlo Ventre will be Maurizio.
Now, Adriana has a long story back at the Barcelona's Opera House. It was offered for the first time in May, 1903, just six months after its world premiere in Milan, and with the same soprano, Angelica Pandolfini (she sang in Milan with Enrico Caruso and Giuseppe de Luca). We can hear a recording of Pandolfini as Adriana from that same year of 1903:
Since there great sopranos had also sung this role at Liceu: Mercedes Capsir, Maria Caniglia, Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, Mirella Freni,...
Let's hear Daniela Dessì:
Lucia Aliberti and Anna Caterina Antonacci singing the two duets Norma - Adalgisa, from Catania in 1990:
Emilio de Gogorza was an Spanish-American baritone that, being almost blind, never sang at the operatic stage, but was a frequent performer in recitals, and also a very active recording artist. He was married to the outstanding soprano Emma Eames.
Among his recordings, perhaps the most famous are the two duets singing "A la luz de la Luna" with Caruso and Schipa, but in the General sub-forum, let's hear another duet, this time with his wife, Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano":
That's very diffrent from other renditions I've heard so far. Certainly it's from other era of singing. I'm not sure how much I like it but one thing I can say for sure: gotta love how these oldest recordings make the accompaniament sound like... no, I can't find proper word. Just hear the main rhythmic motive played by strings at the beginning.
The movie many people think about after watching Die Tote Stadt, is of course "Vertigo", by Alfred Hitchcock, based in a novel by the French writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac: D'entre les morts.
It was inevitable that sooner or later, an stage director would dress Marietta like Kim Novak, and Paul like James Stewart. This happened in 1988, in Düsseldorf, and it was done on Günther Kramer's watch.
Now, we have this youtube with music from the opera, and images from the movie:
Wait, I've written some misguided crap here before the edit but the link is awesome anyway:
Munich Siegfried's trailer (premiered today):
An almost forgotten tenor, singing what was perhaps his best role.
Galliano Masini - "La dolcissima effige".
Great rendition.
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