Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), The Passenger (1968)
The booklet contains a letter (in full) by Shostakovich from 1974 praising his friend's opera, The Passenger. Maybe I don't understand the opera that well as I didn't find it particularly thrilling.
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La Traviata with Jonas Kaufmann, Christine Schäfer and Jose van Dam on Youtube. Beautifully sung and acted but an idiotic and distracting production. At first I was wondering why it was set in a dry-cleaners. Why make Kaufmann try and sing while on his back on a trolley repairing a lawnmower in act 2? And what's with the guests doing some kind of zombie twitching during the brindisi?
This, also on YouTube. Cura sounded bad in act I but was good after. His "e lucevan" was full of despair.
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Last edited by Soave_Fanciulla; January 5th, 2018 at 08:33 AM.
Natalie
This is my 3rd R&J on CD and 4th including Salzburg DVD. All are at least good, but none can touch the Corelli/Freni for me, particularly because of Corelli.
I hadn't listened to this in a while and forgot how much I love it:
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Peter Mattei plays Onegin here like a horrible self-centred vain destructive meddler and he's quite hateable except then he opens his mouth and sings and this heavenly sound appears and I want to fall at his feet and worship him and be like the king of Spain with Farinelli and employ him to sing me to sleep every night for the rest of my life.
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Natalie
I've seen posts referencing Elena Suliotis, and didn't know who she was. I was listening to this recording this afternoon and thought the soprano might have been a very young Callas.. Suliotis! She's terrific.
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