What opera have you purchased recently?

[Soave_Fanciulla]

err... yes but only if it comes with the cat

No, I'm only shipping with the other one, cause it pees in the kitchen and has fluff for brains. On the plus side you can see it likes music, sometimes it even gets onto the piano keys when you are trying to play.

[Soave_Fanciulla]

No, he purchased a Kathleen Battle CD - it's only sorta/kinda Pav CD..

If we could splice in another tenor I'd DEFINITELY get this. Maybe I'll call it up on spotify and just listen to the Battle bits.

[Amfortas]

Not a complete opera, but Toscanini's famous all-Wagner concert at Carnegie Hall in February of 1941, with orchestral excerpts along with Lauritz Melchior and Helen Traubel in scenes from Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, and Götterdämmerung. Melchior was the established star; the lesser-known Traubel's performance would draw raves and eventually help her take over the major Wagnerian soprano roles at the Met after Flagstad left the U.S. and Lawrence contracted polio.

[Clayton]

No, I'm only shipping with the other one, cause it pees in the kitchen and has fluff for brains...

Oh we should get on just fine together

I mean about the fluff for brains bit



I don't pee in the kitchen

[Hoffmann]

No, I'm only shipping with the other one, cause it pees in the kitchen and has fluff for brains. On the plus side you can see it likes music, sometimes it even gets onto the piano keys when you are trying to play.

Are those 8-track tapes stacked up to the right of Mr/Ms Kitty?

[Hoffmann]

If we could splice in another tenor I'd DEFINITELY get this. Maybe I'll call it up on spotify and just listen to the Battle bits.

I know. But, my Mother always used to tell me: "We all have to do things we don't like to do" (and tell me, and tell me, and..). Based on Mom, I've extrapolated that to mean "We all have to listen to rotund, self-indulgent tenors we don't want to listen to".

It helps that this CD set was recorded in 1981, before Pav and his voice had become so annoying.

[Soave_Fanciulla]

Are those 8-track tapes stacked up to the right of Mr/Ms Kitty?

No, it's the patent colour-coded plastic boxes for "Pieces I haven't got round to playing this week/Pieces I can play while reading the paper/Pieces I haven't got a clue about" piano practice method.

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

Oh we should get on just fine together

I mean about the fluff for brains bit



I don't pee in the kitchen

OK, but with the lemur brain thingy, the question is, do you really remember what a kitchen is? Because if you don't, maybe you do pee in the kitchen; you just don't know that that's what you're doing.

[Soave_Fanciulla]

I know. But, my Mother always used to tell me: "We all have to do things we don't like to do" (and tell me, and tell me, and..). Based on Mom, I've extrapolated that to mean "We all have to listen to rotund, self-indulgent tenors we don't want to listen to".

It helps that this CD set was recorded in 1981, before Pav and his voice had become so annoying.

Ok I just listened to this on Spotify (bar Pav's first aria which set my teeth on edge) Battle was predictably lovely. I took my nasty Pav medicine by telling myself to concentrate on his fine technique and lovely diction and not worry about his voice. Your mum would be proud of me.

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

Ok I just listened to this on Spotify (bar Pav's first aria which set my teeth on edge) Battle was predictably lovely. I took my nasty Pav medicine by telling myself to concentrate on his fine technique and lovely diction and not worry about his voice. Your mum would be proud of me.

I don't understand this, much. I actually love Pavarotti's voice. Is this, erm, considered to be bad form or something?? Not cool?
What is wrong with Pav's voice? Sure, he had some vocal wear and tear (many did and still do as well; the exceptions are few) and he got into the commercial side of the 3 Tenors thingy, but he was still a great operatic artist, in my opinion, with a very beautiful and unique timbre of voice.

[Soave_Fanciulla]

I don't understand this, much. I actually love Pavarotti's voice. Is this, erm, considered to be bad form or something?? Not cool?
What is wrong with Pav's voice? Sure, he had some vocal wear and tear (many did and still do as well; the exceptions are few) and he got into the commercial side of the 3 Tenors thingy, but he was still a great operatic artist, in my opinion, with a very beautiful and unique timbre of voice.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Pav's voice per se, and his technique is often exemplary.

The problem is, I can't stand his particular timbre. I suspect Hoffmann is less than keen too. It's a personal taste thing rather than a judgement as to objective quality.

I feel the same with regard to Sutherland, Caballé and Nilsson. I'd never get a recording with them in it.

[Clayton]

I love this recording. It is the only one of L'elisir d'amore that I have and I have been happy with that


but I do want to see the DVD with Alagna and Gheorghiu

but my wish list is three ink cartridges long


so many buts

[Hoffmann]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Pav's voice per se, and his technique is often exemplary.

The problem is, I can't stand his particular timbre. I suspect Hoffmann is less than keen too. It's a personal taste thing rather than a judgement as to objective quality.

I feel the same with regard to Sutherland, Caballé and Nilsson. I'd never get a recording with them in it.

[Soave_Fanciulla]

I know, I know.

Caballé sounds like a chicken and Nilsson like a very loud icicle.

[Amfortas]

I know, I know.

Caballé sounds like a chicken and Nilsson like a very loud icicle.

There's an icicle in my lumpy music!