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  • La Valkyrietta: Let us not speak about the rest of the cast, which was fabulous, or the conductor, but Helen is... 8:25 PM
  • Bianca Castafiore: Grazie, chicagokok. The projections do look amazing though; what kind of technology is it that... 8:18 PM
  • kashania: Now I’m listening to the Todesverkundigung. Divine! For those who missed the link, it’s well... 7:56 PM
  • luvtennis: Just finished listening to the ’39 Trovatore from Covent Garden with Bjoerling and Cigna. I have... 7:52 PM
  • kashania: Glad you liked it, Valkyrietta. I just went back to the “hoyotohos&# 8221; again (I was listening... 7:52 PM
  • pasavant: Let’s put lamp shades on our heads and start a Koanga Line! 6:38 PM
  • mia apulia: I am surprised at how moving this is, all the more sad… 6:25 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: Helen starts at 1.40. httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=K-oU i7YzZ-Y 5:40 PM

Re-entrance

La Cieca (not pictured) has just accessed a new feature in YouTube that imported a dozen or so “classic” parterre video clips from Google Video into the familiar YouTube interface. For your viewing pleasure, then: Classic Parterre on YouTube.

10 comments

  • kashania says:

    And to think that before today, I had never heard a note of Marton’s Brünnhilde. Thank you, La Cieca.

  • armerjacquino says:

    What treasures! Thank you, la cieca. I didn’t know about the google videos so it’s wonderful to find all this on youtube.

    The quizzes were fun, weren’t they? I was going to do an ‘Abscheulicher!’ quiz at one point but the editing was so fiddly that I gave it up in an adolescent strop.

  • kashania says:

    I loved the singers identification quizzes. Bring them back!

    • Evenhanded says:

      Well.

      I have also been thinking about the quizzes and would love to see them become an occasional feature on Parterre again. They were really fun. This may be a dumb question, but why did Armer mention them? Are they filed somewhere?

      • armerjacquino says:

        They’re in the youtube selection which is the subject of the thread- click the link to find them.

  • pasavant says:

    Unusual choice for Schipa. There is a much better clip of him singing the same aria on youtube recorded in 1925.

  • guy pacifica says:

    Now I’ll definitely not get any work done today….

  • actfive says:

    I never thought I’d see or hear Livia Budai again--and singing with Gwyneth????

  • Baltsamic Vinaigrette says:

    Great stuff altogether -- Grazie, La C!