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By: Wagneriana

Wagneriana — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:07:31 +0000

Zauberflote

By: gracegolden

gracegolden — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:44:48 +0000

Bad German spelling. It should be “Todte” not Tote.

By: gracegolden

gracegolden — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:20:34 +0000

The eyes represent CBS, and the top hat crew are the Tiffany Network news department–so the opera must be Die Tote Couric.

By: Sanford

Sanford — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:35:00 +0000

Il Guarany, all of the Moffo Verdi and French Arias have been posted to Youtube. I found them on vinyl on Ebay and my brother-in-law converted them to digital for me. BTW, I used to sing (or attempt to) the baritone aria from your eponymous opera. To paraphrase FamousQuickly, I couldn’t sing that aria tomorrow: it’s a question of color and especially tessitura (too high).

By: Regina delle fate

Regina delle fate — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:59:30 +0000

I was going to guess The Merry Widow relocated to post-wall Berlin

By: Melot's Younger Brother

Melot's Younger Brother — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:48:03 +0000

I’ve been thinking along the same lines as Figliaimpura. Last night, as PBS ran the Mattila “Manon Lescaut,” I wondered if the costumes could be any uglier.

New contest: Name this tired, old production?

By: il_guarany

il_guarany — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:53:01 +0000

Sanford – thanks again. While I found the album on operashare today, all the links have expired. Bummer! Your upload was all the more welcome.

By: il_guarany

il_guarany — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:50:39 +0000

Before I found out which production this was, I was still able to read “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” into the second picture. A bit crass, perhaps, but Giulietta was a deputy at the Bundestag (= eine Hure).

But now the the cat is out of the bag, check it out –
http://mostlyopera.blogspot.com/2008/04/berlin-fascinating-production-of-magic.html

and the official page of this production (in German) – http://www.die-zauberfloete-in-der-u-bahn.de/

By: Figliaimpura

Figliaimpura — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:31:16 +0000

oh Lord. That’s “subway”. Typing with a Gin and Tonic in your hand is just not the same as on an Underwood

By: Figliaimpura

Figliaimpura — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:05:26 +0000

By the way, it looks like a Magic flute to me, too. In a sunway station in Germany?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:02:02 +0000

TannhÃ¤user — first pic is the song contest, second pic is the orgy.

By: Figliaimpura

Figliaimpura — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:53:52 +0000

Cieca, fun though this quizz is (and I do love trying to figure out the German mind.. or lack of it) couldn’t you do much the same thing with a lot of the old rep from the Met or other houses (Scala, Covent Garden etc)? I mean, one Donizetti certainly tended to look like another when I was a girl and Don Giovanni seemed indistinguishable in most houses from Ernani or Rigoletto at times. A generalisation, I know, but as Mr Poutney once said “sometimes in replacing an old fashioned setting you create a greater monster in its place”.

Just a thought, Cieca……………………………………

By: Sanford

Sanford — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:40:22 +0000

It’s from her Verdi Arias album , which has, as far as I know, never come out on CD. The album cover I remember it having is a gorgeous black and white photo, but that was a reissue in the 70s. I believe it was originally released in the mid 60s.

By: Senta

Senta — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:37:36 +0000

Der fliegende HollÃ¤nder

By: sm

sm — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:13:58 +0000

I suggest a surprising new game. Put on your favourite cd and accompany with random images from the television – any film is suitable for this purpose. You will find that miraculously music and visuals match up in an entirely apporiate manner, although sometimes the results are less outrageous than contemporary productions.

By: Carmen Asada

Carmen Asada — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:34:58 +0000

Sanford- Thank you for that upload. Very nice!

By: il_guarany

il_guarany — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:04:25 +0000

Thanks, Sanford – kinda goes with a Sunday-brunch-with-mimosas theme. When was it recorded?

By: Sanford

Sanford — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:33:02 +0000

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ukgzng A little gift for a sunday morning.

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:37:39 +0000

Ernani. Or Maria Stuarda.

By: Christian Ocier

Christian Ocier — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:32:20 +0000

I’m guessing this is the new ZauberflÃ¶te from the Berlin train station? I head about it in some blog and this seems to make sense.

By: Gianni

Gianni — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:59:44 +0000

OR What about Billy Bud?

By: Gianni

Gianni — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:58:24 +0000

Just to be Bizarre I think it is La Straniera, or Rigoletto or “The Eyes of Laura Mars.”

By: Krunoslav

Krunoslav — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:48:17 +0000

THE JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY

By: Mannersindmechant

Mannersindmechant — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:43:23 +0000

It must be Otello (the Rossini one.)

By: Sanford

Sanford — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:51:01 +0000

JJ and BH are the same person!

By: High C's @ 4:20

High C's @ 4:20 — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:22:04 +0000

I read Hollands piece today… his line “were not kind to the present condition of her voice…” seemed eerily similar to our own jj in his assesment of Ms. Dessay: “…excellent fit for her current vocal estate.” coincidence?

By: kvetch

kvetch — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:20:15 +0000

BTW…they could pull this off at the Chambers Street/WTC Station of the IND A/C/E lines…we have those real creepy eye mosaics all over the place, there…..

By: kvetch

kvetch — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:17:09 +0000

That was a dead give-away, Cieca…..I hope the Third rails were shut off , during this Berlin production of “Magic Flute”!…

Where did the audience SIT??–can you imagine this at the Times Square IRT Station?

By: Sanford

Sanford — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:13:46 +0000

Did anyone read Mr Holland’s latest opus?

“Her opening songs, mostly late-Romantic lieder, were not kind to the present condition of her voice, relying as they did on the ability to sing at midrange quietly and in tune.” – in today’s review of Jessye Norman’s recital.

it’s a shame when people sing music that makes them rely on singing in tune, isn’t it?

By: Ein Junger Hirt

Ein Junger Hirt — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:13:29 +0000

Mefistofele!