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, etc
- - - Updated - - -
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
Gotterdammerung; Barenboim
Just received it.
I know you don't like Wagner, Annie,
but I love you anyway.![]()
"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):
![]()
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
"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
Bookmarks