Since the above I have listened to a lot of La Sonnambulas. Now this:
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Still my favorite opera and my favorite recording of it.
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Since the above I have listened to a lot of La Sonnambulas. Now this:
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
This sounds very boxy .Actually, it sounds like a transfer from a 78 rpm disk.
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
First listen. Feels like I am listening to Weber.
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
There is a part in here that the music and singing briefly sound much like a part in La Fille du Rebiment. I like the first one a bit better.
DVD Soundtrack:
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
My favorite recording of my favorite opera. This one for sure goes with me to the desert island. Second choice is the above Nightinggale set.
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
In no particular order, home work for future opera trips.
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"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
This one goes on the desert island list:
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
I think I listened to this opera once or twice, but have no recollection of it, so this is like a new experience for me. I have a DVD but have not watched it yet, but should soon so that I will have completed videos of all 10 major Wagner Operas.
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
This. Still my favourite version of my favourite opera.
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"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
Last night:
Early this evening:
Now:
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Conductor/orchestra: Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Cast: Nina Stemme (Leonore), Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Falk Struckmann (Pizarro), Christof Fischesser (Rocco), Rachel Harnisch (Marzelline), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino), Peter Mattei (Don Fernando)
Conductor/orchestra: Maurizio Pollini, Prague Chamber Orchestra
Prague Philharmonic Chorus
Cast: Katia Ricciarelli (Elena), Lucia Valentini-Terrani (Malcolm), Dalmacio Gonzalez (Uberto/Giacomo), Dano Raffanti (Rodrigo di Dhu), Samuel Ramey (Douglas d'Angus), Cecilia Valdenassi (Albina), Oslavio Di Credico (Serano), Antonio D' Uva (Bertram)
Hadn't listened to this for quite a while.
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