What opera have you been listening to, lately?

[Clayton]

...I nearly passed out...

so definitely not for walking

[Clayton]

I opened my account with Lohengrin

guaranteed lump free

but possibly could send you bonkers

not sure why but I chose the Janowksi

Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa), Susanne Resmark (Ortrud), Gerd Grochowski (Friedrich von Telramund), Markus Brück (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Günther Groissböck (Heinrich der Vogler)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
Live recording of concert performance 12 November 2011

[Clayton]

I opened my account with Lohengrin...

I confess

technically not strictly true

when the seasonal grape juice was flowing last night

I did sneak in another round of Les Indes galantes...



is it a big problem when I'm hiding opera consumption on an opera forum?

[Amfortas]

is it a big problem when I'm hiding opera consumption on an opera forum?

Understandable. Who wants to admit to drinking binges at an AA meeting?

[JohnGerald]

I confess

technically not strictly true

when the seasonal grape juice was flowing last night

I did sneak in another round of Les Indes galantes...



is it a big problem when I'm hiding opera consumption on an opera forum?

Look at it this way, Clayton: all of us are addicted; all of us admit it, and we all are enabling each other.

It's a perfectly circular world here ...

[Clayton]

Look at it this way, Clayton: all of us are addicted; all of us admit it, and we all are enabling each other.

It's a perfectly circular world here ...

Okay, so now I understand the post

Might "his" user name be changed to "the enabler"?...

I know, I am slow.

My goodness; I used to work purposely slow. What was that like for my colleagues?

Though I think "the enabler" sounds like a bad movie

so I'll keep him filed under Captain

[Clayton]

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Norman Bailey (Hans Sachs), Bernd Weikl (Beckmesser), René Kollo (Walther von Stolzing), Hannelore Bode (Eva), Adolf Dallapozza (David), Magdalene (Julia Hamari (Magdalene), Kurt Moll (Pogner)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded October 1975 Sofiensaal, Vienna

[StLukesGuildOhio]

Maria Callas Remastered!!!



One of my Christmas gifts... purchased with gift cards.

[Ann Lander (sospiro)]

On YouTube. I'm absolutely loving this, lots of gorgeous bass singing.

Donizetti's L'Assedio di Calais



Aurelio - Della Jones
Eustachio - Christian Du Plessis
Eleonora - Nuccia Focile
Giovanni d'Aire - Rico Serbo
Giacomo de Wisants - Paul Nilon
Pietro de Wisants - Ian Platt
Armando - Mark Glanville
Edoardo III - Russell Smythe
Isabella - Eiddwen Harrhy
Edmondo - John Treleaven
Un Incognito - Norman Bailey

Conductor - David Parry
Orchestra - Philharmonia Orchestra
Chorus - Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

[Clayton]

Wagner: Das Rheingold
George London (Wotan), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Set Svanholm (Loge), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner), Oda Balsborg (Woglinde), Hetty Plümacher (Wellgunde), Ira Malaniuk (Flosshilde)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded September/October 1958 Sofiensaal, Vienna

[Clayton]

Wagner: Das Rheingold
Theo Adam (Wotan), Gerd Nienstedt (Donner), Hermin Esser (Froh), Wolfgang Windgassen (Loge), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Mime), Martti Talvela (Fasolt) Kurt Böhme (Fafner), Annelies Burmeister (Fricka), Anja Silja (Freia), Vera Soukupova (Erda), Dorothea Siebert (Woglinde), Helga Dernesch (Wellgunde), Ruth Hesse (Flosshilde)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Karl Böhm
Recorded live at the Bayreuth festival 1966

[Clayton]

Hi tenchi67622

Attachment 6235

Recently just finished listening to as that seems to be the unwritten law of this forum LOL (Really, I love the opera and Souliotis in general)...

Ha ha! It is a great recording

though I'm going to read the terms and conditions of the forum; I thought it was written somewhere...

...I've been trying in the 2 years or so to broaden my opera listening to include 20th Century opera...

so which operas do you mostly listen to?

[JohnGerald]

Hi tenchi67622



Ha ha! It is a great recording

though I'm going to read the terms and conditions of the forum; I thought it was written somewhere...




so which operas do you mostly listen to?

I believe that the " terms and conditions" were either written by Alma in blood or invisible ink on fragile tissue paper.

Angela Meade is an exceptional performer; I saw her in Ernani from the Met a few years ago.

[tenchi67622]

more Rimsky-Korsakov

Rimsky Korsakov: Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden)
Valentina Sokolik (Snow Maiden), Irina Arkhipova (Spring), Anton Grigoriev (Tsar Berendey), Anatoly Moksayakov (Mizgir), Lidya Sakharenko (Kupava), Alexander Vedernikov (King Frost), Vladimir Matorin (Bermyata) & Ivan Budrin (Carnival)
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio
Vladimir Fedoseyev
Recorded 1975

Attachment 6194

absolutely superb

I love Rimsky-Korsakov and I just love the way "Snegurochka" seems to just roll off the tongue. I've said it and most non-operatic friends of mine suspect I'm having some sort of seizure which prevents me from talking correctly.....

[tenchi67622]

Hi tenchi67622



Ha ha! It is a great recording

though I'm going to read the terms and conditions of the forum; I thought it was written somewhere...




so which operas do you mostly listen to?

Started out mostly Italian (from Baroque to Verismo) and French (everything) but lately I've been trying to wrap myself around Czech, Russian & German, & English.......