What opera have you been listening to, lately?

**halochef** · June 1st, 2018, 04:48 AM

ok since we are showing......i know she is retired but this was still good compared to the Met one...IMHO

**halochef** · June 1st, 2018, 05:58 AM

and i also like this opera and some others.

**Soave_Fanciulla** · June 1st, 2018, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by halochef

and i also like this opera and some others.

1. My favourite Franco Fagioli clip. Astonishing.

2. Love Artaserse

3. Also a great staging. All those feathers. And countertenors.

**Clayton** · June 1st, 2018, 09:40 AM

ditto on the 1,2 and 3.

All those feathers.

I did say I liked birds.

**Clayton** · June 1st, 2018, 09:45 AM

One more fairy tale before the cricket starts

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Rimsky Korsakov: May Night

Alexey Krivchenya (Village-Head), Konstantin Lisovsky (Levko), Lyudmila Sapegina (Hanna), Ivan Budrin (Kalenik), Gennady Troitsky (Clerk), Yuri Yelnikov (Distiller), Anna Matyushina (Sister-in-law), Olga Pastusenko (Pannochka)
USSR TV and Radio Choir and Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev
Recorded 1973

After the cricket I may be listening to a tragedy

or maybe a comedy

or maybe a comic tragedy.

Who knows? Let's see what happens.

**Clayton** · June 1st, 2018, 10:06 AM

Of course it could be a pastorale héroïque.

**Florestan** · June 1st, 2018, 10:35 PM

And this one, which just arrived today.

**Soave_Fanciulla** · June 2nd, 2018, 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by Clayton

Of course it could be a pastorale héroïque.

Meanwhile we can pretty much guarantee that Florestan will be listening to a story set in Switzerland which involves sleepwalking

**Florestan** · June 2nd, 2018, 04:00 AM

Originally Posted by Soave_Fanciulla

Meanwhile we can pretty much guarantee that Florestan will be listening to a story set in Switzerland which involves sleepwalking

I am! This time it is,

I also have been thinking of having my name changed to Elvino!

**Florestan** · June 2nd, 2018, 09:34 PM

**Soave_Fanciulla** · June 3rd, 2018, 01:51 AM

Quintessential Rameau, beautifully performed and totally danceworthy.

Rameau: Naïs
Chantal Santon-Jeffery (Naïs), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Neptune), Florian Sempey – Jupiter, Tirésie), Thomas Dolié (Pluton, Télénus), Manuel Nuñez-Camelino (Astérion), Daniela Skorka (Flore, Une Bergère), Philippe-Nicolas Martin (Palémon), Márton Komáromi (Protée)
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegy

**Florestan** · June 3rd, 2018, 04:30 PM

**Soave_Fanciulla** · June 3rd, 2018, 09:52 PM

Absolutely charming - Clayton would like.

Scarlatti, A: La Gloria di Primavera
Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano), Suzana Ograjenšek (soprano), Clint van der Linde (countertenor), Nicholas Phan (tenor) & Douglas Williams (baritone)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Philharmonia Chorale, Nicholas McGegan