Reply With QuoteThis is my favourite carmen methinks. I'm really trying to become familiar with this....my girlfriend and my other friends knew this opera way better than I do!
Rimsky Korsakov: May Night
Alexey Krivchenya (Village-Head), Konstantin Lisovsky (Levko), Lyudmila Sapegina (Hanna), Ivan Budrin (Kalenik), Gennady Troitsky (Clerk), Yuri Yelnikov (Distiller), Anna Matyushina (Sister-in-law), Olga Pastusenko (Pannochka)
USSR TV and Radio Choir and Orchestra
Vladimir Fedoseyev
Recorded in 1973
This is my favourite carmen methinks. I'm really trying to become familiar with this....my girlfriend and my other friends knew this opera way better than I do!
For my drive up to New Jersey today (overnight stop before driving to Vermont tomorrow), today's Sirius Met Radio lineup:
http://www.siriusxm.com/metropolitanopera
It's just me and Margaret Juntwait!
Rubinstein: The Demon
Alexander Polyakov (Demon), Nina Lebedeva (Tamara), Evgeny Vladimirov (Gudal), Alexey Usmanov (Sinodal), Nina Grigorieva (Nanny), Nina Derbina (Angel), Yury Elnikov (Messenger), Boris Morozov (Old Servant)
Academic Choir of the USSR All-Union Radio, Symphony Orchestra of the USSR All-Union Radio
Boris Khaikin
Recorded 1974
* Recommended to have cup of tea / brandy / glass of whatever on standby
Thanks for the pointer Soave_Fanciulla
Vodka?Originally Posted by Clayton
Natalie
It could work. Give it a go and let me know how it works out.
It could be fun for the forum if you would report immediately following the trial.
Cherubini: Medea
Maria Callas (Medea), Jon Vickers (Giasone), Fiorenza Cossotto (Neris), Nicola Zaccaria (Creonte), Joan Carlyle (Glauce), Mary Wells (First Maidservant), Elizabeth Rust (Second Maidservant) & David Allen (Captain of the Guard)
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Nicola Rescigno
Live recording 30 June 1959 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Why is Salieri not performed so often?
I don't know. I have not heard any of his works yet but this one probably does sound the most interesting.
I understand it was a great success at the time, performed 127 times at the Opéra and Berlioz was a fan of this work.
It seems young Padawan Salieri learned well from master Gluck...
Catalani: La Wally
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Piero Cappuccilli, Justino Diaz, Lydia Marimpietri & Alfredo Mariotti
Coro Lirico di Torino & Orchestre national de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Fausto Cleva
Recorded - Monte Carlo, June 1968
You will be swept away
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Viennese version, 1762)
Agnes Baltsa (Orfeo), Margaret Marshall (Euridice), Edita Gruberova (Amore)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Chorus Master: John McCarthy
Philharmonia Orchestra (Harpsichord continuo: Leslie Pearson)
Riccardo Muti
Recorded June, July 1981, Kinsway Hall and November 1981 No. 1 Studio Abbey Road
It will take you to another world
Catalani: La Wally
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Piero Cappuccilli, Justino Diaz, Lydia Marimpietri & Alfredo Mariotti
Coro Lirico di Torino & Orchestre national de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Fausto Cleva
Recorded - Monte Carlo, June 1968
You will be swept away
Haha.
But seriously, I have this in my buy cart at Presto. My burning question is, how shouty is del Monaco in this?
Natalie
Haha.
But seriously, I have this in my buy cart at Presto. My burning question is, how shouty is del Monaco in this?
No, mezzo-forte (? if this is a correct term) with the rich golden sound of Del Monaco, I like it very much.
I forgot to say in the previous post that of course Renata Tebaldi's performance is stunning.
This morning I am in Vienna, 20 November 1976. After a beautiful walk around the city... (okay my imagination really needs a health check)
Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Gundula Janowitz (Ariadne), Agnes Baltsa (Komponist), James King (Bacchus), Edita Gruberova (Zerbinetta), Erich Kunz (Haushofmeister), Walter Berry (Musiklehrer), Barry McDaniel (Harlekin), Kurt Equiluz (Scaramuccio), Manfred Jungwirth (Truffaldin), Gerhard Unger (Brighella), Hilda de Groote (Najade), Axelle Gall (Dryade) & Sona Ghazarian (Echo)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Karl Böhm
Live recording Wiener Staatsoper 20 November 1976
Yes so in my imagination, I also went to have a coffee and chocolate cake in an very old Vienna coffee house, and the coffee was served in Augarten coffee cups.
I should go now, some gentlemen who look like cricket umpires are knocking at the door.
I, on the other hand, am in the country of my youth:
Personally not my favourite version for idiosyncratic reasons. Don't like either the timbre of either Montserrat Caballé (too chickeny) or of Mady Mesplé (too French canary), although intellectually I know they are both singing superlatively well. I think it would appeal to many others. And it is a great opera.
Natalie
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