Not goodOriginally Posted by Hoffmann
Unfortunately, all my walking has not resulted in much weight loss - especially the 5 lbs I gained over the holidays.
I am now facing the dreaded Plan B: reducing caloric intake.
It takes a while sometimes for the exercise to increase the metabolic rate again. May seem a silly question but have you tried walking quicker than normal?
"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
Enjoying opera with the favourite man from Barcelona...
Terradellas: Artaserse
Anna Maria Panzarella (Artaserse), Céline Ricci (Arbace), Marina Comparato (Mandane), Sunhae Im (Semira), Augustin Prunell-Friend (Artabano) & Mariví Blasco (Megabise)
La Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara, Juan Bautista Otero
with of course, the favourite from Korea...
"Ah,non credea mirarti si presto estinto, o fiore." --Bellini, La Sonnambula (also written on his tomb).
Well, that was the idea behind my pace when I listened to the two operas. I did drop .5 lb after that, but likely gained it all back today when I didn't walk - I decided to take one day off each week.Not good
It takes a while sometimes for the exercise to increase the metabolic rate again. May seem a silly question but have you tried walking quicker than normal?
My listening, at home today:
This opera still mostly leaves me cold - other than the big duet and some of Leila's music. There don't seem to be many recordings of the opera that were made, so this might be as good as it gets.
Then, yet another selection from that bottomless box of operas:
I liked what I heard in this first listen, but didn't get through the whole opera, so it merits another round.
We thought we were going to a remote beachside settlement and and we ended up next to the party house from hell. Only thing to do was plug my ears with loads of opera:
Natalie
Oh Nat, what a shame!
"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
Yes, that is a pity
Oh, so it wasn't that bad then!
We thought we were going to a remote beachside settlement and and we ended up next to the party house from hell. Only thing to do was plug my ears with loads of opera
Too bad you didn't have a couple of sets of 100+ watt speakers - you could have "shared" your opera experience!
How's that Semiramide? That's one I don't own.
Edita! I was interested an searched for it immediately... it is available for three point two billion US dollars.
Cavalli: L’Ormindo
Sandrine Piau (L'Armonia), Martín Oro (Ormindo), Howard Crook (Amida), Dominique Visse (Nerillo), Magali Léger (Siele), Jean-François Lombard (Erice), Stépanie Révidat (Erisbe), Karine Deshayes (Mirinda), Jacques Bona (Hariadeno), Benoît Arnould (Osmano)
Les Paladins, Jerôme Correas
I think Gruberova is a bit past it in this recording, although the technique is of course secure. I can't see what the fuss is about (or in the Roberto Devereux i also listened to.
But Florez and Manca de Nissa were great. I always find myself more interested in the mezzo part in this opera.
Natalie
I think the fuss must be about Florez, although there may be one or two Gruberova nuts in the pile.
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Oh and welcome back
I also think it could just be a very small number of copies printed; Nightingale is a very small company with a teeny weeny catalogue (in this case, size matters) and I think they were in a bit of a financial doo-doo (in technical accountant speak). They had their website posting the message "under construction, back soon" for about two or three years.
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