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Happy Leap Day!

by | 2:20 pm | Feb 29, 2012

Not only is it Rossini’s 53rd birthday but also an opportunity to celebrate the art of the intervallic leap. YouTube yourselves into frenzy, cher public!

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  • Vivaldi says:

    on March 1, 2012 at 4:30 PM
    • Bianca Castafiore says:

      This is one of my all time favorite performances! What a bravura piece for Podles, and also, Verrett did it so fantabulously back at the Met in the 75-76 season. There’s also an extended scena that Rossini adapted, which I think, Horne performed in concert (with her husband, I think).

      on March 2, 2012 at 3:47 PM
  • brunettino says:

    Leontyne Price, Verdi Requiem, Solti/CSO recording from the late 1970s: Tremens, factus, sum ego, et cetera.

    ‘Nuff said.

    on March 4, 2012 at 1:39 AM
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