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Come!
Stop it you two!!!!!or come and have a walk with me - this is where I was yesterday:
or come and have a walk with me - this is where I was yesterday:
Natalie
Come!
Stop it you two!!!!!or come and have a walk with me - this is where I was yesterday:
"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
Thanks. Both places look mighty inviting!
Natalie
I'll drive to NYC on Monday by car, starting very early (like 5 AM). What do you think will happen in the I-95 corridor, Hoffmann? Do you think we'll be able to travel safely on Monday?
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
Believe it or not, that hellacious weather system headed Hoffmann's way has been named Winter Storm Jonas!Alma, are you planning to attend any Met performances while you're in NYC? I know you once mentioned that you were hoping to add the other Jonas to the major international stars whom you've interviewed. If so, I can help with questions.
I think I-95, at the least, should be clear by Monday.
As long as you aren't planning to make a stop in downtown DC or Baltimore, I would think you will be ok. Going by past experience (I've lived here long enough to have seen 8 out of the city's 10 biggest snowfalls), DC might well be shut down for a week - Baltimore, too. Driving in NYC might be interesting, though!
Land of the rising sun, there are roads that have geothermal heating which is pretty cool. Though there are some people that need to pay about USD 1,000 a year to have there driveway cleared of snow...
No walk today due to impending storm. So, decided on Rossini:
I'm thinking of a daylong Ring marathon tomorrow while watching the blizzard (see "Off-topic Discussions"). I might snowed in long enough to do a double marathon of the Solti and Barenboim recordings.
That's one way of categorising a storm! One Ring = heavy snow. Two Rings = blizzard.
"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
That's one way of categorising a storm! One Ring = heavy snow. Two Rings = blizzard.
Natalie
Been an odd sort of week so returned to a new version of one of my favourite operas.
La Traviata is still one of my favourite Verdi Operas (especially the first two acts which are close to perfect) my favourite part remains the finale of act 2 scene 1 with Germont's famous aria and the sadly often cut "No, non udrai rimproveri"
"Non sono in vena" Rodolfo summing up P.B's feelings on his dissertation.
I listened to another perfect opera - well, perhaps only perfect if one is listening and not watching the weak/confusing drama on DVD:
I don't listen to this one very often as I vastly prefer the Sutherland/Pavorotti/Ghiaurov recording, sometimes referenced as "Sutherland 2" from 1975. It's actually very good and I think I even prefer Alfredo Kraus over Pavarotti, even if he's not quite as secure with his high notes.
Early start tomorrow but slept too long on Saturday night so it's impossible to fall asleep. Decided to have four hours sleep, game and listen to the not so perfect Manon Lescaut again.
I like Manon Lescaut. It might even be worth getting on my iPod. However, though it is not a bad opera it is not as great as any of the operas by Puccini that followed. Compared to La Fanciulla de west, La Rondine and Il Trittico which are all performed less often it struggles to come close to any of them for me (La Rondine is a guilty pleasure opera I know, but its melodies are some of my favourite by Puccini as for the other two (Il Trittico and La Fanciulla de west) those operas are just horrifically under-performed masterpieces).
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"Non sono in vena" Rodolfo summing up P.B's feelings on his dissertation.
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