Welcome to Opera Lively! As for your question, I can't help, I don't know enough about Wagner recordings. Other members here are more knowledgeable about it, so let's hope someone will respond.
Type: Posts; User: Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)
Welcome to Opera Lively! As for your question, I can't help, I don't know enough about Wagner recordings. Other members here are more knowledgeable about it, so let's hope someone will respond.
Well, of course, why wouldn't the DVD director be concentrating on the beautiful soprano? He knows what is best for the audience! :love8:
Me too, I have SiriusXM in my car and it is often tuned to Met Opera Radio. Yes, they have the same deal with Dish Network, so I have SiriusXM on my TV too, and furthermore, they have a free iPhone...
I won't be going to Europe this year. I've been aiming at going every other year and this past year I went twice, so not this time even though a Ring is tempting. Next year we might get together...
I stuck the thread for you. You probably do have the permission to do it. I gave broad permissions to all staff members a while ago.
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Yes, this season and casting are not bad.
I have no experience with ticket resale at the Met. I'd think it is probably a discouraging market because in my last several trips to the Met (including for operas that belong to the Ring although...
Agreed. I loved it too. I did say "and so on and so forth" because there are many other good operas in English.
Well, well, well... Not *all* operas in English are good, though... especially the...
Exceptional operas (among the very, very, very best) with English text:
Porgy and Bess
The Rake's Progress
Written on Skin
Peter Grimes
Dido and Aeneas
The Turn of the Screw
Susannah
The...
And then, since Shostakovich's waltz is not really Russian, here is perhaps the most diffused Russian operatic aria about desperate love by a dying lover:
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Oh, wait a moment. One more.
We've been through the most compelling musical traditions:
Italy, France, Belgium, Russia (Austrian genre), Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, and the...
Well, we're an opera site, so, pour finir le tour, back to opera. This is overexposed but will never lose its beauty, and is arguably the most beautiful love aria of the entire operatic repertory.
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Back to Italy. Love song? Oh God, how I love you... Dio, come ti amo. This is very romantic, folks. Her beloved is leaving from the Naples airport... she asks the staff to lend her the public...
Now, from Portugal, the great Amália Rodrigues, the queen of Fado, very beautiful lyrics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0eayX4QqTs
From Spain via France, maybe the most beautiful love song ever composed, Spanish classical composer Joaquín Rodrigo's masterpiece, Aranjuez ma pensée (beautiful French lyrics), here interpreted by...
I have to go back to Cuba. Like I said, they have a special talent for this. Here, we get a mix of the artistry of Cuba and Brazil, with Cuban Pablo Milanés interpreting his famous love song Yolanda...
From France, we get Michel Legrand's very poetic love song Les Moulins de Mon Coeur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANLvlQKYcI
Comme une pierre que l'on jette
Dans l'eau vive d'un ruisseau...
From Canada, the great and late Leonard Cohen (I was so sad when he passed away):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zjLBWnZGTU
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through...
From Belgium, no one is better to express desperate love than Jacques Brel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz6r0TP4FBI
OK, now from my beloved Italy, Paolo Conte with his also very sensual song Via con me, here on top of a clip from the movie Frida:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZOObJjjiOA
The Cubans have special talent for love songs. Here, Lagrimas Negras:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeBdmNParpw
Isn't Waltz also the music of love? Here a Russian does better than the Austrians...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOK8Jb76ibc
From Argentina, love without Tango wouldn't be love. Here, an extraordinary scene of Carlos Saura's movie, Tango
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP8I8NIoAqI
Now, from Brazil, two very, very sensual sambas. The lyrics are, well, very hot, if you understand Portuguese (especially the first one, which describes in very arousing - but poetic - terms, a man...
From the United States, talking about bands I like performing love songs, here is the iconic Amado Mio, with the fabulous band from Portland, Oregon, Pink Martini (sung by the great China Forbes,...
From France and Spain, here is one I really love, "The Story of a Love", and it is rendered here in both French and Spanish, making it even more beautiful - by the nice band French Latino (an...
