Yesterday:
and
While I am partial to the recording with Marilyn Horne, this really is very well done.
Today's (very hot and steamy) walk:
Very nice, but Martina Arroyo is no Leontyne Price.
Hasse, J A: Didone Abbandonata
Theresa Holzhauser (Didone), Flavio Ferri-Benedetti (Enea), Valer Barna-Sabadus (Iarba), Magdalena Hinterdobler (Selene), Maria Celeng (Araspe) & Andreas Burkhart (Osmida)
Hofkapelle München,
Michael Hofstetter
Live recording, recorded 24 May - 1 June 2011, Prinzregententheater, Munich
NOT for the faint hearted.
Though thoroughly recommended.
You will need a cuppa after this.
(Actually in my case a couple of pints of Guiness)
I am not sure if it was good or bad that I did not see this at ROH.
I do not know if it was the music, the story, my imagination or all or some of those combined but this is both disturbing and wonderful.
I could not type immediately after listening to this.
Somehow blasphemy would just be wrong.
Post script: My next purchase IS the ENO recording of this opera (in English)
Gretry: Le Magnifique
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), Elizabeth Calleo (soprano), Marguerite Krull (soprano), Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Karim Sulayman (tenor), Douglas Williams (bass-baritone) & Randall Scarlata (baritone)
Opera Lafayette,
Ryan Brown
Live recording 6-8 Feb 2011, Dekelboum Hall, University of Maryland
World Première Recording
Lovely opera and good recording. A gem at GBP 5 during the Naxos promotion at Presto Classical earlier this year. I look forward to other operas by Gretry being performed and recorded. I am considering La Caravane du Caire, Zémire et Azor and Guillaume Tell.
Anyone out there know of any other good recordings?
Ettore Bastianini really is the most wonderful Posa.
"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
Just a couple days ago I mentioned here that he was a magnificent Di Luna (Trovatore) died very young but fortunately we have many great recordings from 1955-65 to hear his workOriginally Posted by sospiro
Ettore Bastianini really is the most wonderful Posa.
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Grace Bumbry, (Orfeo), Anneliese Rothenberger (Euridice), Ruth-Margret Pütz (Amor)
Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig,
Václav Neumann
Recorded Heilandkskirche Leipzig October 1966
Favourite Gluck opera? It starts to get confusing...
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Emanuela Galli (La Musica/Eurydice), Mirko Guadagnini (Orfeo), Marina De Liso (Messaggiera), Cristina Calzolari (Proserpina), Matteo Bellotto (Plutone), Josè Lo Monaco (Speranza), Salvo Vitale (Caronte), Vincenzo Di Donato (Apollo), Francesca Cassinari (Ninfa), Giovanni Caccamo (Pastore I), Makoto Sakurada (Pastore II/Spirito I), Claudio Cavina (Pastore III), Tony Corradini (Pastore IV/Spirito II)
La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina
Recorded at the Church of San Carlo, Modena (Italy) in February 2006
Great cast in a different telling of the same story.
Rimsky Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan
I. Petrov, E. Smolenskaya, L. Nikitina, E. Shumilova, E. Verbitskaya, V. Ivanovsky, G. Oleinichenko, P. Chekin, A. Ivanov, M. Reshetin, N. Kaluzhsky, A. Bolshakov, A. Gheleva
The Choir and Orchestra of the USSR State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, Vassili Nebolsin
Recorded in 1958
Another very pretty fairy tale opera.
Because I must own all things Callas I recently purchased this new released boxset of live Verdi recordings, I have them all individually and these are previous remasters.
Right now listening to the great Callas Macbeth 1952 live La Scala
So do you mean you've purchased records you already have but just packaged differently?
Yes exactly, for instance I have 3 complete studio boxsets plus the same recordings in their individual EMI boxsets with full booklets
So do you mean you've purchased records you already have but just packaged differently?
Complete Boxsets
Individual Opera Boxsets
Soon I will have 4 complete studio boxsets when original artwork remaster set is released in September
(actually I will definitely sell the "blue" cheapo boxset when this arrives)
Okay.
I kowtow to the fanatic...
After many, many hours of continuous Stabat Mater being played, I came back to this opera today.
Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade
Raffaella Milanesi (Aristea), Ann-Beth Solvang (Argene), Olga Pasichnyk (Megacle), Jennifer Rivera (Licida), Martin Oro (Alcandro), Jeffrey Francis (Clistene), Markus Brutscher (Aminta)
Academia Montis Regalis,
Alessandro de Marchi
Recorded live Innsbruck Festival, Tiroler Landestheater, Aug 6-12, 2010
Another wonderful opera with a very good cast including the talked about Raffaella Milanesi as the very beautiful Aristea.
Though something has just dawned on me. Whilst it may be painfully obvious to all; this member "Clayton" just says he likes anything he listens to. I wouldn't take his recommendations with a pinch of salt. I would take enough salt to brine the entire North Atlantic stock of sardines.
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