Olivo e Pasquale
A rarity but performed recently in New York.
One of Donizetti's early ones & I can't do better than the lovely description by 'LindoroRossini' who uploaded this to YouTube
Last edited by Ann Lander (sospiro); November 13th, 2012 at 06:37 PM.
"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
Legendary.
To the admins: I keep getting database error for following the google links to the tag sections of the website e.g. "www.operalively.com/learn/tag/leonora/"
That Armida, it has enough uninspired, poor numbers to scare you off, but prankster Rossini hidden also some excellent music in this opera, like that trio (that's the "three tenors" I like):
Overally I prefer the Fleming/Kunde Armida though, it has high note at the end. No repsectable sorceress flies off in rage without solid cry of frenzy.
I was just listening to Antigonae too, but this one:
Currently:
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Most recently, I have been dipping into EMI boxed sets of the two Elisabeths, Schumann and Schwarzkopf. Also a delightful intermezzo by Telemann, Pimpinone, in the Teldec recording with Siegmund Nimsgern and the enchantingly twittery Uta Spreckelsen, who sounds like a combination of Rita Streich and Erika Koeth!
I can agree now with what I've said about it before I listened to it. It's great, now my officially favorite baroque solo CD. Not that I would have dozens of these, quite few of them just to have something to like less than this.
I just got Joyce's CD in the mail. I'm so busy with our "Opera Lively - The Interviews" book that I can't listen to it right now. Pity. It looks very tempting.
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
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