Originally Posted by Hoffmann
Speaking of Don Carlo (Soave is all ears)........
I found a great cheap live 1970 DC with very good sound, on opera d oro label you can buy basic or deluxe version
There maybe some question of Janowitz as queen but fear not all is well and young Verrett is very dramatic Eboli, this must be owned!
Verrett also Princess Eboli for the famous 1971 studio EMI Don Carlo with Giulini, I also love Bumbry singing Eboli for Decca Solti version
It is a glorious blue sky over Berkhamsted when I am pottering around my garden this morning.
I am delighting over my hoard of autumnal treasures.
Striking scarlet berries on the Ilex,
The last of the fiery red flowers of the Phygelius,
The flourescent fuschia pink of the Penstemons,
The silky black leaves of the Ophiopogon...
And all the greens!
This morning I am going to enjoy (again) another addition to my great treasures...
Staying on the India theme, maybe after today's cricket finishes I'll listen to...
The voices of Fiorenza Cossotto, Jessye Norman and Jose Carreras are all beautiful here.
Un giorno di regno led me to...
Nabucco.
As mentioned many times by others on this forum Suliotis is really exciting to listen to though I really enjoy every minute of this opera
I am going to change my avatar and henceforth would like to be known as "Prode guerrier".
No scrap that, just call me Clayton.
I like Nabucco so much I decided to listen to it again with the Sinopoli recording.
However I got confused again at the tea cabinet where next to Nabucco was the Ernani recording...
Again an opera I keep coming back to and would love to attend a performance.
If in Rome...
Go see Ernani, 'cos it's on.
Yes, I am going to wake up at 3:45 am to follow the cricket... but what with my new late night opera listening apparatus (Sennheiser headphones) and all this talk about Barbara Hannigan in the Opera Awards...
Written on Skin by George Benjamin
Even though I understand I will be too traumatized to sleep afterwards...
Since getting into other pieces is very time demanding and spare time is scarce lately, I've been exploring familiar land.
This is wonderful:
Good to see you back, Festat!
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
I watched this - it really doesn't get any better, with Sarah Connolly's searing Lucretia, Christoher Maltman spoiled and sexy as Tarquinius and John Mark Ainsley fantastic as Male Chorus. Great production by David McVicar. Very highly recommended.
There is some cool stuff on YouTube at the moment.
A funny Italiana in Algieri, based round the conceit of a plane crash in the jungle and the capture of the passengers by a local tribe (it works) with Marie-Nicole Lemieux sounding glorious in the title role (and acting very entertainingly too), and the new discovery of a terrific tenor in Yijie Shi - wow!
A very interesting Ruslan and Liudmila directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, started off very traditionally, but then morphed into a more modern telling that worked very well. Conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
Stephen Herheim's Les Vêpres Siciliennes from ROH was up for a short while, set in the Paris Opera. I'm not sure it worked perfectly but the integration of ballet elements was interesting and I didn't miss the 30 minute dance interlude. And Erwin Schrott looked lovely in his little black dress. He's very attached to it.
Natalie
He looks smashing. Do you think the Mrs. was envious?
Heartbreakingly beautiful:
A friend of mine saw Les Vêpres Siciliennes & got a hug and a kiss from Mr. Trebs at the Stage Door afterwards. He wasn't wearing the dress though; a skinny fit top & a beanie hat & looked uber cool. I have seen the photos!
"Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables."
FRANZ SCHALK, attributed, Losing the Plot in Opera: Myths and Secrets of the World's Great Operas
My pleasure, Alma.
I bought this solely because of the beautiful cover art, but it turned out to be quite good. (:
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