Reply With QuoteThis one is 1805 with some deviations to the 1806 and 1814 versions and even a slight revisions from what the booklet states as a deviation from 1805 to the "premiere version (1804)."
1805
1806
"Ah,non credea mirarti si presto estinto, o fiore." --Bellini, La Sonnambula (also written on his tomb).
This one is 1805 with some deviations to the 1806 and 1814 versions and even a slight revisions from what the booklet states as a deviation from 1805 to the "premiere version (1804)."
"Ah,non credea mirarti si presto estinto, o fiore." --Bellini, La Sonnambula (also written on his tomb).
Rigoletto: conducted by Sinopli
My introduction to this wonderful opera
Luxury casting with Brigitte Fassbaender presumably as MaddalenaOriginally Posted by Sonata
Rigoletto: conducted by Sinopli
My introduction to this wonderful opera
Natalie
Another case where I have two of this recording. I think a friend bought me one as a present when I already had a copy.
Rigoletto: conducted by Sinopli
My introduction to this wonderful opera
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and yeas to the Faasbaender role
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a typo and not the way I pronounce yes
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up all night listening to the cricket so mind is a bit wonky
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that's a little more wonky than usual
"Ah,non credea mirarti si presto estinto, o fiore." --Bellini, La Sonnambula (also written on his tomb).
Yesterday's walk:
Then today - and, a beautiful day for a walk:
Beethoven: Leonore (in concert performance)
Conductor/orchestra: René Jacobs, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Zürich Singakademie Chorus
Cast: Marlis Petersen (Leonore), Maximilian Schmitt (Florestan), Johannes Weisser (Pizarro), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Rocco), Robin Johannsen (Marzelline), Johannes Chum (Jaquino), Tareq Nazmi (Don Fernando)
During this month and October, René Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra have been making the rounds of various European opera houses with this cast and chorus in concert performances of the Fidelio Urfassung of 1805. There's nothing to "watch" on this video except for the same graphic throughout. Eventually, a recording will be released, and I suspect I’ll buy a copy, primarily for Marlis Petersen’s wonderful Leonore. Maximilian Schmitt, Robin Johannsen, and Johannes Chum all have attractive voices; Dimitry Ivashchenko’s Rocco and Tareq Nazmi’s Don Fernando are okay, but I can’t warm that much to Johannes Weisser’s Pizarro. And I’d like to boot M. Jacobs in his posterior, not only for the breakneck tempos he often chooses, but especially for his decision to “improve” the dialogue by writing his own. I can understand some judicious editing of the sometimes lengthy original, but his version is even more verbose than Sonnleithner and Treitschke’s and frankly quite tiresome. It adds nothing to the drama except more time. I suspect the CD set will be a compilation of recordings made during each of the concerts, or at least I hope this isn’t the performance that will be used if a single concert will be the basis for the release. I was surprised to hear how ragged the playing of the Freiburgers was at several points.
For today's walk to and from the shops. Christoff and Bastianini are just sublime and I got home just as Posa died so sparing me the torture of the dreary and soppy ten/sop aria at the end.Yeah, yeah sacrilege but whenever I see DC, after Posa dies, I'm like, can I go home now?
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"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
For today's walk to and from the shops. Christoff and Bastianini are just sublime and I got home just as Posa died so sparing me the torture of the dreary and soppy ten/sop aria at the end.
A pair of Puccini operas starring Pavarotti and Freni. Today is La Boheme, tomorrow Madama Butterfly
La Boheme
Madama Butterfly
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Well, like the whole opera including the end, but I will grant you that Posa is the best characterFor today's walk to and from the shops. Christoff and Bastianini are just sublime and I got home just as Posa died so sparing me the torture of the dreary and soppy ten/sop aria at the end.
Beethoven: Fidelio
I'd forgotten how much I love this opera! Truly a top 20 opera. The Fricsay recording of Fidelio was actually one of the very first operas I listened and enjoyed all the way through (versus highlights albums). This one I bought for Kaufmann, but I'm really enjoying Nina Stemme as well here.
Yesterday:
Now:
"Ah,non credea mirarti si presto estinto, o fiore." --Bellini, La Sonnambula (also written on his tomb).
Verdi-Nabucco
For today's walk to and from the shops. Christoff and Bastianini are just sublime and I got home just as Posa died so sparing me the torture of the dreary and soppy ten/sop aria at the end.
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