What opera have you been listening to, lately?

[Soave_Fanciulla]

I think I prefer my other version with Anne Sophie von Otter. And of course Joyce DD in the DVD.

[Floria]

I listened to my only Attila.

Giovanni Battista Parodi
Sebastian Catana
Susanna Branchini
Roberto De Biasio

[Ann Lander (sospiro)]

Prompted by Adrian's viewing, will listen to this on the morning commute. Great marching music.

[Hoffmann]

What's a commute?

[Floria]

Bellini: Il Pirata -1959
Maria Callas
Costantino Ego
Chester Watson
Glade Peterson
Pier Miranda Ferraro

Conductor – Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra – Orchestra And Chorus Of The American Opera Society

[Clayton]

Handel: Arianna in Creta HWV 32
Mata Katsuli (Arianna), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Teseo), Irini Karaianni (Carilda), Marita Paparizou (Tauride), Theodora Baka (Alceste), Petros Magoulas (Minos/Il Sonno)
Orchestra of Patras (on period instruments)
George Petrou
Recording 25-30 July 2005, Achaia Clauss (recorded in a winery? so this is why I like this opera so much), Patras



Orchestra of Patras and George Petrou, a hallmark of a good production

[Ann Lander (sospiro)]

What's a commute?

Commuting is regular travel between one's place of residence and place of work.

In my case, I walk, plugged into earphones.

[Floria]

Puccini: La Boheme
1959
Renata Tebaldi
Carlo Bergonzi
Fernando Corena
Cesare Siepi
Ettore Bastianini
Renata Tebaldi
Gianna D'Angelo
Renato Cesari
Tullio Serafin: St. Cecilia Academy Orchestra & Chorus

[Clayton]

this one I talked myself into

I talk to myself often

and generally I tend to agree with myself

though occasionally I don't

then things get weird

I digress

[Clayton]

Vivaldi: Armida al campo d'Egitto RV699-A
Furio Zanasi (Califfo), Marina Comparato (Emireno), Romina Basso (Adrasto), Martín Oro (Tisaferno), Sara Mingardo (Armida), Monica Bacelli (Osmira) & Raffaella Milanesi (Erminia)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Recorded October 2009, Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra, Rome

[Floria]

Rossini: Il Turco In Italia
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

[Clayton]

Rossini: Tancredi
Sumi Jo, Lucretia Lendi, Anna Maria di Micco, Stanford Olsen, Patrick Peire, Ewa Podles, Pietro Spagnoli
Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Capella Brugensis
Alberto Zedda
Recorded 26-31 January 1994, Poissy Theatre and Centre Musical-Lyrique-Phonographique, Ile de France

[Clayton]

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Edita Gruberova (Lucia), Neil Shicoff (Edgardo), Alastair Miles (Raimondo), Alexandru Agache (Enrico), Bernard Lombardo (Arturo), Diana Montague (Alisa), Francesco Piccoli (Normanno)
Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded September 1991 St. Augustine's Church, London

[Clayton]

Verdi: Otello
Renata Tebaldi (Soprano), Mario del Monaco (Tenor), Aldo Protti (Baritone), Tom Krause (Baritone), Nello Romanato (Tenor), Athos Cesarini (Tenor), Ana Raquel Satre (Mezzo-Soprano), Libero Arbace (Bass), Fernando Corena (Bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Kinderchor
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded May 1961 Sofiensaal, Vienna

[Clayton]

Rossini: Otello
Bruce Ford (Otello), Elizabeth Futral (Desdemona), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Elmiro), William Matteuzzi (Rodrigo), Juan Jose Lopera (Iago), Enkelejda Shkosa (Emilia), Ryland Davies (Doge), Dominic Natoli (Lucio), Barry Banks (Gondoliero)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir,
David Parry
Recorded September and October 1999 at Henry Wood Hall, London



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