What opera have you been listening to, lately?

**MAuer** · June 10th, 2018, 11:11 AM

Getting ready to attend the opening performance of the Cincinnati Opera's 2018 season this coming Thursday -- La Traviata with Norah Amsellem in the title role.

**Ann Lander (sospiro)** · June 10th, 2018, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by MAuer

Getting ready to attend the opening performance of the Cincinnati Opera's 2018 season this coming Thursday -- La Traviata with Norah Amsellem in the title role.

Not too shabby for your homework!

**Florestan** · June 10th, 2018, 10:29 PM

**Sonata** · June 11th, 2018, 01:40 PM

Right now I am listening to Wagner's Lohengrin, Kempe's tremendous account

**Florestan** · June 12th, 2018, 12:13 AM

Then this highlights disk sung in English:

**Florestan** · June 12th, 2018, 11:52 PM

Wow! This is a wonderful recording. Just arrived today and I am enjoying it immensely. Sound isn't as good as the '62 or '80 recording, but it will likely be my preferred Sutherland Sonnambula.

**Florestan** · June 15th, 2018, 04:40 PM

**Florestan** · June 15th, 2018, 09:57 PM

**Clayton** · June 16th, 2018, 09:57 AM

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Handel: Acis and Galatea

* Clayton Daneman (Galatea), Clayton Agnew (Acis), Clayton Ewing (Polyphemus), Clayton Piolino (Tenor), Clayton Le Monnier (Baritone), Clayton Sinclair (Tenor), Clayton Cornwell (Coridon) & Clayton Petibon (Damon)
Les Claytons Florissants, Clayton Christie
Recorded: Walthamstow Town Hall that has been stuck in a time freeze since the 1980's so I can see all the other great recordings that go on there
Performance date: Could be any time I have had too much to drink, too much cheese or something happens in the world that trips a mind wander.

* See the *this is where I live* thread

**Florestan** · June 17th, 2018, 05:18 AM

**MAuer** · June 17th, 2018, 11:24 AM

Conductor: Woldemar Nelsson
Orchestra, Chorus, and Extra Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival
Cast: Simon Estes (Dutchman), Lisbeth Balslev (Senta), Matti Salminen (Daland), Robert Schunk (Erik), Graham Clark (Steersman), Anny Schlemm (Mary)

Getting ready for the performance of Der fliegende Holländer coming up at the Cincinnati Opera on 5 July.

**Florestan** · June 17th, 2018, 05:23 PM

^ Great Hollander, that one!

**Ann Lander (sospiro)** · June 17th, 2018, 05:36 PM

Have managed to get a ticket for Les Troyens in Vienna so doing a bit of homework by listening to this.

**Clayton** · June 18th, 2018, 10:10 AM

Ha ha! I must have picked up something in the air because I woke up yesterday to the sound of a chorus of Trojans and so I found this one hiding inside the not very huge wooden tea cabinet.

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Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam), Guang Yang (Hécube), Isabelle Cals (Ascagne), Tigran Martirossian (Panthée), Bülent Bezdüz (Helenus), Mark Stone (Un chef grec), Leigh Melrose (Un soldat troyen/Mercure), Orlin Annastassov (L'Ombre d'Hector), Andrew Greenan (Premiere Sentinelle), Roderick Earle (Deuxieme Sentinelle)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis

Each time I listen to this recording I decide that before I come back I will buy a dvd. I'll put it to the top of the list.