A gal a night is enough for me
Chatter away, cher public, for here is your foyer for off-topic and general interest discussion during the week of August 5.
Chatter away, cher public, for here is your foyer for off-topic and general interest discussion during the week of August 5.
EP was better knitted and less hooty than I have heard before. Warm, smooth, lovely expressive middle, clarion highs and defiant lows. MS is now a more muscular Rossini baritenor though with some blips. JP gave us bright agile soprano blending esp well with Mme Podles.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/handelmania/Olive_Ah_Bello.mp3
Renee has decided to do Norma….
LOOK….you know I ADORE La Cieca..changed my life…BUT…some roles are really a little to heavy…so stick to Semele.
SORRY,KIDS…I hope this one comes out..It cannot be missed!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gli enigmi sono tre..La Cieca ed Una..due…tre
Quick, cut my head off now!
We missed the big Family Pondman confrontations!
Line-up for Gurrelieder at the Proms tomorrow night.
Underwhelming or wot?
Angela Denoke Tove
Simon O’Neill Waldemar
Katarina Karnéus Wood-Dove
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts Klaus the Fool
Neal Davies Peasant
Wolfgang Schöne Speaker
A little help here:
Planning a winter trip to Europe and was playing around on operabase for help choosing cities. I typed in all of my personal favorite singers and directors (thinking Herheim’s Xerxes in Dusseldorf is a must…perhaps Perfect American in Madrid) but strangely, Calixto Bieito’s schedule doesn’t come up. I did find one performance of his work at Berlin’s Komische, but that’s about it. Also nothing coming up on his website. Anyone knows what gives/if he has anything else going this season?
Also, I would love to hear any other suggestions for this trip. Looking at end of January.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Nothing much on offer in the UK at that time- Covent Garden’s 2012-13 is dismally unimaginative (between January and March, your choice is BOHEME, TOSCA or ONEGIN).
If you can hang on until Feb 2nd, though, the new Konwitschny TRAVIATA at ENO should be worth seeing, especially since Corinne Winters is by all accounts pretty exciting.
Well, at least the Onegin is well cast and it will be interesting to see Holten’s production. This is the THIRD new Onegin at the ROH in less than 20 years. Doesn’t quite beat the four Aidas in 20 years … the Moshinsky production from the mid-90s was, in typical Moshinsky fashion, perfectly serviceable (like the ‘classic’ Otello) and they should have kept it.
There is more Konwitschny than Bieito in January: Don Carlo in Hamburg, Magic Flute in Berlin. The Bieito Platee is repeated in June. The Bieito Carmen at the National is already in November. In any case, don’t miss Sylvia McNair with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Leonard Slatkin:
http://tinyurl.com/cw39z6p
What about Pappano conducting The Minotaur? Any thoughts? It looks promising.
Ah yes, I’d forgotten that. I’m a wee bit allergic to Birtwistle… Still, Tomlinson’s always worth seeing even if he is a bit post-vocal these days.
The Minotaur is well worth seeing -- the production is very impressive and the sheer violence of the piece makes quite an impression. Having said that, I did not book to see it again because I did not feel I needed to re-visit it (probably my own failing rather than Birtwistle).
Thank you all for the suggestions…mind if I ask one more favor?
I’m pulling a late night in the office and rewarding myself with a (not yet owned) complete recording of Parsifal (I can’t get that damn Herheim production out of my head). Any suggestions? Ideally something I can buy from iTunes (at first glance I see a promising recording with Christian Thielemann w/ Vienna (not too sure about that cast though); Karajan with Berlin; and Levine w/ the Met.
Other suggestions are welcome!