What opera have you been listening to, lately?

[Dark_Angel]

Time to start playing through the Handel Messiah CD stack for Christmas, first up........

[Aksel]

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I had a Messiah dance party to this recording the other day. It was glorious.

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

Time to start playing through the Handel Messiah CD stack for Christmas, first up........

Yep, a good occasion to say Happy Holidays to all Opera Lively members!!!

[Schigolch]

[Amfortas]

I don't usually like Suor Angelica but Ermonela Jaho convinced me otherwise in this. She was brilliant. And I've decided that I like the music of Il Tabarro almost as much as my favourite La Fanciulla del West.

Yep, this was my most recent purchase. Lovely production of Suor Angelica, with a compelling performance by Jaho.

We'll make a convert out of you yet.

[superhorn]

The Mozart piano variations on this Gluck melody is the finale of the Tchaikovsky orchestral suite no 4,
"Mozartiana" , which is an orchestration of several Mozart works .

[brianwalker]

Does anyone have both copies and can tell me if the blue cover release has a much better sound than the red?

[Schigolch]

[Itullian]

Sinopoli's Hollander.
very good except for Weikl's light Dutchman.
but all else is great. great sound too.
still deciding if it beats my favorite Solti.

still cant figure out how to put the darn pic in here. arg :/

[Dark_Angel]

Sinopoli's Hollander.
very good except for Weikl's light Dutchman.
but all else is great. great sound too.
still deciding if it beats my favorite Solti.

still cant figure out how to put the darn pic in here. arg :/

You can pretty safely buy any Sinopoli Wagner IMO.......

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[Itullian]

wish he'd have done Meistersinger.

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[Yashin]

Listening to several things today - the Karajan La Boheme with Freni and Pavarotti. I recall when i listened to this for the first time i did not like how fast it seemed compared to others - i am thinking of the Bjorling/de Los Angeles or the Tebaldi/Bergonzi recordings. Now i absolutely love this version. Pavarotti sings a dream Rodolfo. I have as usual been comparing the scene in Act 1 just before Che Gelida Manina when Rodolfo and Mimi just meet. There is no comparison with any tenor i have heard. They all just bluster through it (maybe Alagna gets close). You can hear the palpitation almost in Pavarotti's voice. Sheer beauty!

I am also dipping in and out of an a cd i never really bother with until now -Meyerbeer's Roberto le Diable. Since it has just had an airing at Covent Garden. The recording i have is the one on the Dynamic label with Patrizia Ciofi and Warren Mok. There has been criticism on other pages about Warren Mok's French pronunciation and whilst i am not fluent-it does seem muddy at best. Not sure what happened to this Hong Kong tenor after a brief time in the spotlight ( i recall he sung Calaf too). Ciofi does a very good job. The sound is pretty poor for a modern live performance but it does get better as the opera progresses. There is a lot of chorus involvement and that means marching feet/bumping and banging...not what you want to listen to on your commute to work!

Would love to see a DVD of this opera as i haven't much of a clue about it!