Reply With QuotePiero Cappuccilli is one of my favourite singers. One of his hobbies was deep-sea diving which must have helped with breath control!Originally Posted by Florestan
Another golden oldie .
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Piero Cappuccilli is one of my favourite singers. One of his hobbies was deep-sea diving which must have helped with breath control!
"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
Yay! I've got that version and love it. Only bought it for Nicolai Ghiaurov and he doesn't disappoint.
Another golden oldie .
"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
Well? How was it?My favourite type of opera!I had two sanitary breaks in four hours, but the music is gorgeous. The plot :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_crociato_in_Egitto
Lots of male singing
"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
Long time ago since I heard this one.
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Mozart never fails to cheer me up -- especially when Fritz Wunderlich is involved.
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Yesterday afternoon
In homage to the singers in the virtual chorus I posted in News:
I have that one. Excellent recording.Yesterday afternoon
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Ditto. It took some trouble to finally obtain that particular recording of L'Orfeo, but a cast like that was too good to miss.
Blast from the past, shame shame they( Decca) among others ruined her voice by doing to much to soon.In homage to the singers in the virtual chorus I posted in News:
Souilotis that is.
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Almost Easter so time for......4 hours of Wagner.
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