What opera have you been listening to, lately?

[Dark_Angel]

Sospiro's favorite MacBeth, very worthy...........

[Dark_Angel]

Spotify premium already has this, whats not to like here, baroque da capo fans rejoice.........

[Ann Lander (sospiro)]

Sospiro's favorite MacBeth, very worthy...........

Pleased you like it

[Clayton]

...Right now, courtesy of Spotify:

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Lovely. May have to buy the CD...

Oh my favourite I Capuleti e i Montecchi; what a pairing.

I really want to hear Garanca's Sesto.

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I saw this picture posted the other day and I had to listen to it again.



Does not look Persian and no sapphire eyes (may or may not have milk-white breasts) so I am not sure if she is supposed to be Statira but she has a simple beauty that is attractive and an expression that could be read as naive and simple-minded. (Sorry real life model but oddly I am trying to be complimentary to the recording). I like the cover.

More importantly I like the recording. It is a good opera, beautiful music with very pretty melodies, quite a simple story but with lots of character and good expression with gorgeous singing.


Vivaldi: L'Incoronazione di Dario
World Premiere Complete Recording
Anders Dahlin (Dario), Sara Mingardo (Statira), Delphine Galou (Argene), Riccardo Novaro (Niceno), Roberta Mameli (Alinda), Lucia Cirillo (Oronte), Sofia Soloviy (Arpago), Giuseppina Bridelli (Flora)
Accademia Bizantina,
Ottavio Dantone
Recorded September 2013, Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany

[Clayton]

Royer, P: Pyrrhus
Michael Greenberg, Lisa Goode-Crawford, Guillemette Laurens, Emmanuelle De Negri, Alain Buet
Les Enfants d’Apollon
Jeffrey Thompson
Recorded 14 & 16 September 2012, la Salle des Croisades du Château de Versailles

[Hoffmann]

Yesterday's walk:



I don't think to listen to this wonderful recording very often - My 8 mile walks aren't nearly long enough to get all the way through.

[Clayton]

I came close to joining Hoffmann in Munich for La Clemenza di Tito but other schedules made it not possible. NOW I regret it. I tried watching it on live streaming but it did not work. It did not look that good on the screen at the time but after seeing a picture of it in a review in June Opera magazine, I understand how it looks depends on which eyes you see it with. Live stage production eyes, broken interweb streaming eyes or PR/marketing releases photograph eyes, all are different.



Oh well.

Since my time machine is currently not in commission, this morning I turned to the tea cabinet.

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
Mark Padmore (Tito), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Vitellia), Bernarda Fink (Sesto), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Annio), Sunhae Im (Servilia) & Sergio Foresti (Publio)
RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester,
René Jacobs
Recorded November 2005, Teldex Studio Berlin



Someday I will need to study music, if for any reason, to help me understand why this music touches me so.

[Clayton]

Rain interrupted the cricket...

Though that gave me time to listen to more opera...

I was aiming for La Clemenza di Tito (Gluck)...

but did a 'Woolworth's special' at the tea cabinet (what did I come here for?)

and ended up listening to this

Gluck: Paride ed Elena
Magdalena Kozená (Paride), Susan Gritton (Elena), Carolyn Sampson (Amore), Gillian Webster (Pallade)
Gabrieli Consort & Players,
Paul McCreesh
Recorded London All Saints Church, Tooting October 2003

[Hoffmann]

I came close to joining Hoffmann in Munich for La Clemenza di Tito but other schedules made it not possible. NOW I regret it. I tried watching it on live streaming but it did not work. It did not look that good on the screen at the time but after seeing a picture of it in a review in June Opera magazine, I understand how it looks depends on which eyes you see it with. Live stage production eyes, broken interweb streaming eyes or PR/marketing releases photograph eyes, all are different.



Oh well.

Since my time machine is currently not in commission, this morning I turned to the tea cabinet.

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
Mark Padmore (Tito), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Vitellia), Bernarda Fink (Sesto), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Annio), Sunhae Im (Servilia) & Sergio Foresti (Publio)
RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester,
René Jacobs
Recorded November 2005, Teldex Studio Berlin



Someday I will need to study music, if for any reason, to help me understand why this music touches me so.

Munich is great fun - that wonderful opera house, great food, great beer, museums, beautiful city... Maybe next time!

Every once in a while, when I'm out walking, I wonder about your poor, groaning tea cabinet. How's it doing with holding up all those operas these days?

[Clayton]

...I wonder about your poor, groaning tea cabinet. How's it doing with holding up all those operas these days?

It occasionally cracks at me (quite alarmingly loud) "No more CDs! I can't take the strain!". I've had to send some more teapots up to the knick-knack graveyard that is the attic to spread the load between the units.

This morning's pre-cricket opera supplied by said tea cabinet was Handel.

Handel: Acis and Galatea
Sophie Daneman (Galatea), Paul Agnew (Acis), Alan Ewing (Polyphemus), Francois Piolino (Tenor), David Le Monnier (Baritone), Andrew Sinclair (Tenor), Joseph Cornwell (Coridon) & Patricia Petibon (Damon)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie
Recorded 10-13 May 1998, Salle Wigram, Paris

[Clayton]

This morning I thought I might join Sospiro in the Holy Land.

Verdi: Gerusalemme
Sung in French
José Carreras (Gaston), Katia Ricciarelli (Hélène), Alessandro Cassis (Le comte de Toulouse), Siegmund Nimsgern (Roger), Leonardo Monreale (Ademar de Monteil), Giampaolo Corradi (Raymond), Licia Falcone (Isaure), Franco Calabrese (Un soldat), Vinicio Cocchieri (Un Héraut), Eftimios Michalopoulos (L'Émir de Ramla), Fernandino Jacopucci (Un officier de l'Émir)
Orchestra e Coro della RAI Torino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Live recording RAI Torino, 20 December 1975

[Clayton]

Then went to Scotland by way of Walter Scott and...

Boieldieu: La Dame Blanche
Rockwell Blake (Georges Brown), Laurent Naouri (Gaveston), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Dickson), Annick Massis (Anna), Mireille Delunsch (Jenny), Sylvie Brunet (Margeurite)
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris & Chœur de Radio France
Marc Minkowski
Recorded September 1996, Maison de Radio France, Studio 103

[Ann Lander (sospiro)]

Yesterday I went to our local Sainsbury's via Switzerland

[Clayton]

[Soave_Fanciulla]

Yesterday I went to our local Sainsbury's via Switzerland

Did you feel a terrible urge to buy these when you got there?