What opera have you been listening to, lately?

[Florestan]

No dialog and starts with Leonore #2 overture. Has Fidelio and Leonore #1 and #3 overtures at end.

[Clayton]

Massenet: Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame
Miracle en trois actes
Roberto Alagna, Stefano Antonucci & Francesco Ellero d’Artegna
Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, Enrique Diemecke
Massenet's masterpiece (or so he thought)
Live recording 4th February 2007 Opera Berlioz Le Corum

[Clayton]

Adès: The Tempest
Simon Keenlyside (Prospero), Kate Royal (Miranda), Toby Spence (Ferdinand), Ian Bostridge (Caliban), Cyndia Sieden (Ariel), Philip Langridge (Alonso), Donald Kaasch (Antonio), Jonathan Summers (Sebastian), David Condier (Trinculo), Stephen Richardson (Stefano), Graeme Danby (Gonzalo)
The Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Thomas Adès
Live recording March 2007 ROH Covent Garden

First hearing, got a bit lost trying to read text and listen to the music. Not entirely succesful on either front (struggle with reading at the best of times), the hayfever tablets probably didn't help.

[Soave_Fanciulla]

Adès: The Tempest
Simon Keenlyside (Prospero), Kate Royal (Miranda), Toby Spence (Ferdinand), Ian Bostridge (Caliban), Cyndia Sieden (Ariel), Philip Langridge (Alonso), Donald Kaasch (Antonio), Jonathan Summers (Sebastian), David Condier (Trinculo), Stephen Richardson (Stefano), Graeme Danby (Gonzalo)
The Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Thomas Adès
Live recording March 2007 ROH Covent Garden

First hearing, got a bit lost trying to read text and listen to the music. Not entirely succesful on either front (struggle with reading at the best of times), the hayfever tablets probably didn't help.

I think this is one to see rather than just hear.

[Clayton]

Cilea: L’Arlesiana
Francesco Landolfi (baritone), Kyoung-Eun Lee (mezzo-soprano), Iano Tamar (mezzo-soprano), Mirela Bunoaica (soprano), Giuseppe Filianoti (tenor), Jin Seok Lee (bass), Juano Orozco (baritone)
Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Opernchor des Theater Freiburg, Kinderchor des Theater Freiburg, Camerata Vocale Freiburg, Fabrice Bollon

[Festat]

I love this.

[Clayton]

I'm not so familiar with Cosi

(Festat screams)

I have the Jacobs but have only listened to it once or twice

(Festat screams again)

I think I'll bump it up the listening pile

(Festat lets out a sigh of relief)

[Clayton]

meanwhile with all the thoughts about Rameau and buying the anniversary collection box on sale

I came here



Rameau: Zaïs
Julian Prégardien, Sandrine Piau, Aimery Lefèvre, Benoit Arnould, Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Hasnaa Bennani, Zachary Wilder
Les Talens Lyriques & Choeur de chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset

[Festat]

I'm not so familiar with Cosi

(Festat screams)

I have the Jacobs but have only listened to it once or twice

(Festat screams again)

I think I'll bump it up the listening pile

(Festat lets out a sigh of relief)

Surprisingly, I haven't listened to Così in months. And even though I can recite the libretto backwards, whenever I come back to it after some time I'm genuinely astonished that is is even better than I remembered!

[Florestan]

After watching the video, this one is much more appreciated on CD:

[Soave_Fanciulla]

Next up in the Rameauthon was:

[Amfortas]

The old Met radio broadcast traveling across the decades through a mist of hiss and pops. But the voices of Melchior and Flagstad, even partly shrouded, still emerging golden-toned and glorious.

[Clayton]

suffering from too unstable interweb connection to post much but amongst the usual suspects,

Cosi (Jacobs)
Rinaldo (Jacobs)
Esther (John Butt, Dunedin consort)
Samson (Nicholas McGegan)

and now on one of the usual suspects...

the Solti one

hope to be back soon with a better interweb connection

[Soave_Fanciulla]

[StarThrower]