Youtube thread

**Schigolch** · July 18th, 2012, 09:50 AM

Now that Kunde is going to sing Verdi's Otello, let's hear him singing recently Rossini's, with Dmitry Korchak and Ana Caterina Antonacci:

**Schigolch** · July 18th, 2012, 10:45 PM

Let's follow with Rossini, this time with an aria sung by Maria Callas, "Non si da follia maggiore", recorded in Rome, the year 1950:

**Schigolch** · July 20th, 2012, 10:45 PM

Angela Gheorghiu singing "L'amour est enfant de bohème", the first aria composed by Bizet to introduce the character of Carmen, and that was later replaced by the very famous "Habanera":

**Almaviva** · July 20th, 2012, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by Schigolch

Angela Gheorghiu singing "L'amour est enfant de bohème", the first aria composed by Bizet to introduce the character of Carmen, and that was later replaced by the very famous "Habanera":

Nice, but listening to this, one understands that Bizet had a point when he decided to replace it.

**treemaker** · July 23rd, 2012, 12:05 AM

Well, those of you who follow Seattle Opera know we are about to start a summer run of "Turandot". This afternoon I saw a public library's lecture preview of "Turandot", can I say his name? I think I will. It's Norm Hollingshead's lecture series. He's a great guy and I've convinced Almaviva to support him in Opera Lively, in the hopes that Norm will become a member and advertise for us.

In the course of this lecture, we heard "Nessun Dorma" sung by no less than four tenors. I'm kind of on "Nessun Dorma" overload. Here is Rudolph Schock singing "Nessun Dorma" in German: HERE

**Schigolch** · July 26th, 2012, 09:42 PM

Angela Meade singing recently Leonora (Trovatore) in Spain:

**Schigolch** · July 26th, 2012, 09:45 PM

Elīna Garanča singing "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix", for her new album, Romantique:

**Aksel** · July 26th, 2012, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by Schigolch

Elīna Garanča singing "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix", for her new album, Romantique:

I quite simply cannot get over the utter cheesiness of that video. Whoever decided opera music videos was a good idea has some splainin to do.

**Schigolch** · July 28th, 2012, 08:40 AM

This was surely a Norma for the ages:

Unfortunately, there are no surviving recordings.

But we can at least hear the principals singing Bellini's masterpiece:

Lauri-Volpi / Meco all'altar di Venere

Ponselle & Telva / Mira, o Norma

Pinza / Ah! Del tebro al giogo indegno

**Anne of Green Gables** · July 28th, 2012, 02:22 PM

I particularly enjoyed this exchange of arguments under the video:

Bringbackbelcanto: she isn't a classical singer... which is the point and singing with her is selling out. It's not being snobbish. It's giving respect to the few who study for decades and learn the languages and the techniques, over those who have a great PR team, a fake boob job and can't sing on pitch.

herby0518: get lost

**Aksel** · July 29th, 2012, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by Aramis

Bringbackbelcanto: she isn't a classical singer... which is the point and singing with her is selling out. It's not being snobbish. It's giving respect to the few who study for decades and learn the languages and the techniques, over those who have a great PR team, a fake boob job and can't sing on pitch.

herby0518: get lost

Well, it is Katherine Jenkins they are talking about, so I won't say I disagree with them.

**Anne of Green Gables** · July 29th, 2012, 09:17 PM

More Mozart in Hungarian (dangerous stuff):

**Dark_Angel** · July 30th, 2012, 04:07 AM

Originally Posted by Schigolch

Let's follow with Rossini, this time with an aria sung by Maria Callas, "Non si da follia maggiore", recorded in Rome, the year 1950:

I had to listen in amazement to that improvised final run at 3:45 a few times, thank the opera gods we have some record of the great ones!

**Schigolch** · July 30th, 2012, 07:50 AM

This is the reference of the recording (it's in Italian, but it's easy to understand, I think):

Quest´aria di Fiorilla fu registrata il 19 ottobre 1950 in collegamento diretto col teatro Eliseo di Roma, ove si svolgeva una parte della stagione lirica della RAI che comprese ben quattro rappresentazioni de´Il turco in Italia. Otro che dalla Callas, il cast era composto da Anna Maria Canali, Cesare Valletti, Mariano Stabile, Sesto Bruscantini e Giorgio Calabrese, con la concetezione e direzione d´orchestra (della RAI) di Gianandrea Gavazzeni.

La Callas canterà ancora quest´opera: tra el 31 agosto e l´8 settembre del 1954 per la registrazione discografica effettuata per la Columbia al teatro alla Scala, e poi ed infine dal 15 aprile 1955 per le ben nota cinque rappresentazioni scaligere: il cast vedrà la sostituzione della Canali con collega Jolanda Gardino e di Bruscantini con Nicola Rossi Lemeni, mentre Valletti sarà sostituito da Nicolai Gedda solo nella registrazione. L´unica testimonianza fotografica della recite all´Eliseo (da noi pubblicata in copertina) la si deve a Oscar Coltellaci di Roma, prima di tutto caro amico e po callassiano "del primo minuto" ( tutti gli altri infatti da considerarsi "della prima ora" ) e collezionista.