"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
You know how you have that listening experience that really starts to make an opera click with you? That is what I am having right now with Verdi's Macbeth. I am listening to the Muti recording. Fiorenza Cossotto is "my" Lady Macbeth! It's really a great interpretation, and the other roles are done very well also.
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
With Milnes and Carreras, that production ticks the box of two members at least here! I haven't listened to that one yet but must do so. Until that time I'm in the Abbado camp with Verrett who is a powerful Lady Macbeth.Originally Posted by Sonata
You know how you have that listening experience that really starts to make an opera click with you? That is what I am having right now with Verdi's Macbeth. I am listening to the Muti recording. Fiorenza Cossotto is "my" Lady Macbeth! It's really a great interpretation, and the other roles are done very well also.
Inspired by Hoffmann's grand European tour, I was going to watch the Orfeo ed Euridice Havelka film with Bejun Mehta but instead went to the Neumann recording. Both are very good.
Film
Neumann recording
Grace Bumbry (Orfeo), Anneliese Rothenberger (Euridice), Ruth-Margret Pütz (Amor)
Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Václav Neumann
Recorded Heilandskirche Leipzig, October 1966
I continue with Verdi Shakespeare with Otello
with Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco, and Herbert Von Karajan
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Add Raimondi and it ticks my box too.
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Revisiting an old favourite:
Boito: Mefistofele
Samuel Ramey (Mefistofele), Michele Crider (Elena/Margherita), Vincenzo La Scola (Faust), Eleonora Jankovic (Martha), Ernesto Gavazzi (Wagner/Nereo)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti
Natalie
Yay it's the weekend - I went to market to stock up on full-fat Jersey milk (BYO glass bottles), walnut cheese, German sourdough bread, unsprayed mandarins, free range eggs, and super-fresh fish and veggies - now time to huddle round the fire with this:
Charpentier: Médée
Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Marie-Claude Vallin, Catherine Bignalet, Dominique Visse, Jill Feldman, Sophie Boulin, Gilles Ragon, Michel Laplénie, Jacques Bona, Philippe Cantor, Agnès Mellon, Françoise Paut, François Fauché, Monique Zanetti, Catherine Molmerret
Natalie
I can dream that it's spring with a Handel pastorale
Handel: Acis and Galatea
Lucy Crowe (Galatea), Allan Clayton (Acis), Benjamin Hulett (Damon), Jeremy Budd (Coridon) & Neal Davies (Polyphemus)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Natalie
Hurrah for tenore forte (aka shouty) Del Monaco and Otello, a fantastic recording very worthy of the label "legendary recordings".I continue with Verdi Shakespeare with Otello
with Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco, and Herbert Von Karajan
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Inspired by Sonata's Verdi run, I decided to listen to Macbeth but as usual took a wrong turn at the tea cabinet and ended up here:
Tito Gobbi (Nabucco), Elena Souliotis (Abigaille), Carlo Cava (Zaccaria), Bruno Prevedi (Ismaele), Dora Carral (Fenena), Giovanni Foiani (Gran Sacerdote), Walter Kräutler (Abdallo), Anna D'Auria (Anna)
Vienna Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Lamberto Gardelli
That‘s not a wrong turn, a mere detour. Macbeth tomorrow!Hurrah for tenore forte (aka shouty) Del Monaco and Otello, a fantastic recording very worthy of the label "legendary recordings".
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Inspired by Sonata's Verdi run, I decided to listen to Macbeth but as usual took a wrong turn at the tea cabinet and ended up here:
Tito Gobbi (Nabucco), Elena Souliotis (Abigaille), Carlo Cava (Zaccaria), Bruno Prevedi (Ismaele), Dora Carral (Fenena), Giovanni Foiani (Gran Sacerdote), Walter Kräutler (Abdallo), Anna D'Auria (Anna)
Vienna Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Lamberto Gardelli
This with slight modification to track #8 as noted in this post.
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Don Carlos in English
far from the best but I enjoy listening once in Enlish when I can, helps me remember the libretto much better than simply reading it
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Great detour! I plan on listening to that same recording on my current "Verdi run" as you sayHurrah for tenore forte (aka shouty) Del Monaco and Otello, a fantastic recording very worthy of the label "legendary recordings".
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Inspired by Sonata's Verdi run, I decided to listen to Macbeth but as usual took a wrong turn at the tea cabinet and ended up here:
Tito Gobbi (Nabucco), Elena Souliotis (Abigaille), Carlo Cava (Zaccaria), Bruno Prevedi (Ismaele), Dora Carral (Fenena), Giovanni Foiani (Gran Sacerdote), Walter Kräutler (Abdallo), Anna D'Auria (Anna)
Vienna Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Lamberto Gardelli
This is a wonderful recording that is going to the top of my list for favorite Sonnambula sets:
Out of 21 sets my favorites are (noted by the singer for Amina):
1. Gruberova
2. Aliberti
3&4. Tied for now: Scotto and Moffo
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Musical style of this reminds me strongly of La Fanciulla del West:
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
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