Reply With QuoteI have all 24 Sonnambula recordings (if there are other commercial recordings please let me know) and of them all this is the one I would keep if I could only have one.
A lovely opera I hadn't heard before - features OL interviewee (and talented and charming) Roberta Mameli as Minerva -
I have all 24 Sonnambula recordings (if there are other commercial recordings please let me know) and of them all this is the one I would keep if I could only have one.
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
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Conductor/orchestra: Hans Knappertsbusch, Bavarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Cast: Sena Jurinac (Leonore), Jan Peerce (Florestan), Gustav Neidlinger (Pizarro), Dezsö Ernster (Rocco), Maria Stader (Marzelline), Murray Dickie (Jaquino), Frederick Guthrie (Don Fernando)
Love this opera. I saw a semi-staged version at The Barbican in London. (Nat was there too). Was great fun with characters singing from different parts of the auditorium. I wish it had been videoed.Originally Posted by Hoffmann
A lovely opera I hadn't heard before - features OL interviewee (and talented and charming) Roberta Mameli as Minerva -
"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
I adore it too. I'm a big Odyssey fan and this captures the last part so well. And the music is divine. That concert was so lovely!
Natalie
Just arrived. Never liked this opera, but this sung-in-English set is pretty good. I am liking it quite a lot.
Andrew Shore (Don Pasquale)
Jason Howard (Dr Malatesta)
Barry Banks (Ernesto)
Lynne Dawson (Norina)
Clive Bayley (Notary)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
So in the car today I started listening to what is my favourite scene in any opera - Brünnhilde telling Siegmund that he is soon to go to Valhalla, and Siegmund first trying to find out what it is like and then refusing because Sieglinde will have to stay behind. I simply couldn't leave it and had to sit in the car in the driveway until the scene was finished.
Wagner is the only composer who can provoke a physical reaction in me - there are scenes where the hairs on my arms stand up, and this is one (Siegfried's death march is another). And what a cast - the first four mentioned below are some of my favourite singers. Does any one else think Anja Kampe is under-appreciated?
Wagner: Die Walküre
Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), René Pape (Wotan), Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Anja Kampe (Sieglinde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Fricka), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Natalie
^^^^^Yes SF, I think Kampe is very good too.
I have her in this and like it very much.
This one isn't quite as good as his 2nd recording
which also has magnificent sound.
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Love the cover art on this one though!
This one isn't quite as good as his 2nd recording
which also has magnificent sound.
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
now i thought this first one was "different" but this next one WOW! it has ballet-circus acting and modern dance. very weird. i like the magic flute and just posting these weird ones. this is weird. and the crowd clapped before the queen finished her 2nd Aria. ya know the big one. the crowd was clapping before she was finished strange
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
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