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I have four Aida recordings, all of them wonderfulRight now I am listening to this one:
Conducted by Ricardo Muti, with Placido Domingo, Montserrat Caballe, Fiorenza Cossoto, etcDream cast!
I have four Aida recordings, all of them wonderful
Conducted by Ricardo Muti, with Placido Domingo, Montserrat Caballe, Fiorenza Cossoto, etc
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I have four Aida recordings, all of them wonderful
Conducted by Ricardo Muti, with Placido Domingo, Montserrat Caballe, Fiorenza Cossoto, etc
A couple of crazy good ones:
Zimmermann-Die Soldaten
Schnittke-Life With An Idiot
So, I was listening to Lakmé for the first time, over about 3 days of commuting. And I was loving it, and kept thinking this sounds great but I had sure expected more faux-oriental exoticism... It turns out I was listening to La Juive THE WHOLE TIME.#OperaNewbMoments
I had picked this set up for $7, since my French opera familiarity has been neglected. I figured some of the old recordings would sound pretty bad (and they do. Some of them are Edison Wax CylinderTM quality.), but it's definitely been worth $7. La Juive is great! Lakmé next week.
Also, since there was no Massenet on that set, I grabbed this one for a paltry $5 and it's terrrrrific. The cast is pretty okay, I think?
La Juive is good. This one gets me every time:
Natalie
So, I was listening to Lakmé for the first time, over about 3 days of commuting. And I was loving it, and kept thinking this sounds great but I had sure expected more faux-oriental exoticism... It turns out I was listening to La Juive THE WHOLE TIME.
I had picked this set up for $7, since my French opera familiarity has been neglected. I figured some of the old recordings would sound pretty bad (and they do. Some of them are Edison Wax CylinderTM quality.), but it's definitely been worth $7. La Juive is great! Lakmé next week.
I have that! Love it.Also, since there was no Massenet on that set, I grabbed this one for a paltry $5 and it's terrrrrific. The cast is pretty okay, I think?
Gotterdammerung; Barenboim
Just received it.
I know you don't like Wagner, Annie,
but I love you anyway.
Just received it.
I know you don't like Wagner, Annie,
but I love you anyway.
I have the occasional listen to RW and my opera buddies keep telling me I should persevere but I just don't get him.
"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
Yesterday (I do find it hard to get through Meistersinger, but there are some wonderful parts):
Today:
Tomorrow (now today as I do this edit):
"Ah,non credea mirarti si presto estinto, o fiore." --Bellini, La Sonnambula (also written on his tomb).
If you can "get" Pelleas, you can get anything.
I have the occasional listen to RW and my opera buddies keep telling me I should persevere but I just don't get him.
If you can "get" Pelleas, you can get anything.
Yeah well I have to confess an ulterior motive or shallowness! It's not exactly one of my favourites but Simon Keenlyside has been in the only two performances I've seen. 1st as Pelléas himself and 2nd time as Golaud.
"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
The secret to Pelleas is to let yourself drift on a lake of melodic fragments and allusions and not worry too much about what is making sense.
Natalie
Rameau: Pygmalion
Cyrille Dubois (Pygmalion), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Céphise), Céline Scheen (La Statue), Eugénie Warnier (L’Amour)
Les Talens Lyriques, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Christophe Rousset
Handel: Alceste
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Natalie
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