Since I'm doing the cycle with my friend's daughter I'm also dusting off my Wagner. I'm sorry I don't listen to you very often, Rich, if only you wrote shorter operas...
I have been listening to:
Der fliegende Hollaender
and Der fliegende Hollaender
and Der fliegende Hollaender
and Der fliegende Hollaender
and Fidelio
and Der fliegende Hollaender
and Der fliegende Hollaender
and Der fliegende Hollaender
...
and Der fliegende Hollaender
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
mixing it up a little...Originally Posted by Florestan
Always important to have some variety.
This rotation is with only one Der fliegende Hollander set. Wait until I build up a collection. Three in the mail right now. With Fidelio I rotate through 20 plus highlights disks and Leonore sets. Right now am listening to the Mackerras Fidelio which is the one where Carmen plays Leonore:
But there is good justification for having 20 Fidelios because as I continue rotating through them I am finding some wonderful performances such as the Mackerras, which I will play over again, but not until I get another listen to Der fliegende Hollander! Senta's ballad has become a pleasant ear worm. Perhaps could become a phone ringer too!
I was thinking of the parallels between Fidelio and Der fliegende Hollander in which both Florestan and the Dutchman are condemned and in both cases there is an extremely faithful woman coming to the rescue. I wonder if Beethoven would have appreciated that. Perhaps Beethoven would have done Der fliegende Hollander had he thought of it. He was, after all, searching in vain for a good topic for his next opera.
Hey, check out this excellent rendition of Senta's ballad sung in Hungarian.
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Even with the new Dutchman cant quite shake FidelioAlways important to have some variety.
This rotation is with only one Der fliegende Hollander set. Wait until I build up a collection. Three in the mail right now. With Fidelio I rotate through 20 plus highlights disks and Leonore sets. Right now am listening to the Mackerras Fidelio which is the one where Carmen plays Leonore
But there is good justification for having 20 Fidelios because as I continue rotating through them I am finding some wonderful performances such as the Mackerras, which I will play over again, but not until I get another listen to Der fliegende Hollander! Senta's ballad has become a pleasant ear worm. Perhaps could become a phone ringer too!
I was thinking of the parallels between Fidelio and Der fliegende Hollander in which both Florestan and the Dutchman are condemned and in both cases there is an extremely faithful woman coming to the rescue. I wonder if Beethoven would have appreciated that. Perhaps Beethoven would have done Der fliegende Hollander had he thought of it. He was, after all, searching in vain for a good topic for his next opera.
Hey, check out this excellent rendition of Senta's ballad sung in Hungarian.
The ultimate opera ringtone:
I'm well into the third act now and maybe I'm being inattentive (I'm listening while writing) but this doesn't have much flair, does it? Or maybe I grew too accustomed to Kubelík and Karajan?
I think this one will take a couple of listens to get a better sense of the opera itself. It's also a 1959 live recording, so ..
Are they supposed to be singing out of tune or is it my ears?
"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
Hey girl! Hey!Are they supposed to be singing out of tune or is it my ears?
I'm picking up where I left off with listening to my box of purchases a couple of weeks ago.
I'm not so sure about this one - I love the opera, but although I was curious to hear it sung with a tenor as Romeo instead of the usual pants role, I'm too used to the way the two female voices blend as opposed to the more traditional tenor/soprano pairing attempted here. This features Giacomo Aragall singing Romeo and an early Pavarotti singing Tebaldi in this live recording from 1966:
Yes, maybe.I'm well into the third act now and maybe I'm being inattentive (I'm listening while writing) but this doesn't have much flair, does it? Or maybe I grew too accustomed to Kubelík and Karajan?
I mean about getting used to the Kubelik, not about you being inattentive. I like this a little less than when I first started listening to it but this Janowski has a sort of soppy romance to it (perhaps a little less flair or pizzazz) that works with the characters of the cast I like.
It does take a bit to shelve the ICEIM that we are more familiar with but I do like this performance. Hoffmann though I guess has an added hurdle with the Pav exhaustion...I'm picking up where I left off with listening to my box of purchases a couple of weeks ago.
I'm not so sure about this one - I love the opera, but although I was curious to hear it sung with a tenor as Romeo instead of the usual pants role, I'm too used to the way the two female voices blend as opposed to the more traditional tenor/soprano pairing attempted here. This features Giacomo Aragall singing Romeo and an early Pavarotti singing Tebaldi in this live recording from 1966:
Meanwhile...
I have the Solti (Vienna) on the Sennheisers at the moment (it's late and I have new neighbours)
definitely one of my favourites
(as in top seven)
You're probably right. Your new neighbors undoubtedly prefer the Kubelik ..
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