parterre box

94 comments

• Lucky Pierre says:

  oh i see, it’s margison.

  btw, check out that fur… to get the peta folks all bonkers.

  on December 22, 2009 at 7:11 PM
  • CruzSF says:

    Tosca must have forgotten that it was July 1st.

    on December 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM
• Lucky Pierre says:

  OMG, i’m so sorry i never caught her live:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2G3OZR3O-c

  on December 22, 2009 at 7:38 PM
  • Lindoro Almaviva says:

    That minute marker 0:22 is gloeious. I laugh every time.

    on December 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM
• louannd says:

  on December 22, 2009 at 9:25 PM
• Dawn Fatale says:

  I just found this on youtube (Many Thanks to the same gentleman who brought us the live footage of Sills as Lucrezia Borgia!)

  on December 22, 2009 at 9:32 PM
  • Dawn Fatale says:

    And also:

    on December 22, 2009 at 9:38 PM
  • kashania says:

    Brava diva!!! OMG, I’m posting this on my FB page.

    on December 23, 2009 at 12:05 AM
  • Cassandra says:

    Oh my god, when I watch something like that it makes me love this art form again so deeply. The audience could not hold back its applause it was so amazing. THAT is opera. To get that visceral reaction…

    on December 23, 2009 at 1:43 PM
• woodshed says:

  Audio only for this one I’m afraid, but hearing this for the first time was what turned me on to opera. Even now, 25 years after I first heard it I get goose bumps. Happy Birthday Giacomo!

  Tebaldi & Bergonzi -- Butterfly love duet:
  

  on December 22, 2009 at 9:48 PM
• rommie says:

  which puccini aria gets you guys down? mine is Si, mi chiamano Mimi.

  on December 22, 2009 at 11:14 PM
  • soubrettino says:

    I always like it when Mimis inflect the “c” in ma il mio nome e Lucia. Scotto did it, Gheorghiu did it: that’s why whatever shit they did they’re always the best in my books.

    on December 23, 2009 at 6:55 AM
• Fritz says:

  Stay for the encore:

  Greetings from 1907:

  on December 23, 2009 at 1:03 AM
• soubrettino says:

  Happy birthday Puccini! I always cry whenever Moffo’s Tu che di gel sei cinta (the legendary ’61 Turandot with Nilsson & Corelli) comes up on my iPod. No death scene music is more beautiful.

  on December 23, 2009 at 7:07 AM
• maddalenadicoigny says:

  The Morgan Library has a small room dedicated to Puccini and last time I was there, it was empty.
  Try to pass by if you can. There in a case you will find an original copy of Boheme. I believe there is a 1909 Caruso recording on a listening station.

  on December 23, 2009 at 11:34 AM
• The Vicar of John Wakefield says:

  Act Three of LA BOHEME is incomparably done by Dora Labette, Heddle Nash, John Brownlee and Robert Easton under “Tommie” Beecham. Far finer than that lot of Spaniards, Vikings and Yanks in the later set.

  on December 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM
  • operaguy says:

    Yes, it made a fine filler for Beeecham’s classic Boheme recording with the Spainiard, Viking and lots of Yanks, when Naxos remastered them.

    on December 23, 2009 at 5:17 PM