Could there possibly be any more providential day of the year for New York City Opera to announce their Annual Fall Vintage Event?
I ate there last visit as I had time to kill before checking in to the hotel. And I will be wearing leather pants and cowboy boots....
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 minutes ago
You should read the comments on yt.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 5 minutes ago
Sometimes I stumble across opera Reddit and it is ALWAYS an entertaining journey. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 6 minutes ago
Out of interest, I looked up whom I last saw as Gaea in Daphne. Birgit Remmert. She’s presented in most online sources as ‘mezzo soprano and contralto.’
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 7 minutes ago
It wasn’t me.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 22 minutes ago
I think the only real contraltos I've heard live are Lili Chookasian, Maureen Forrester, and Huguette Tourangeau. Of course, many contraltos claim they are mezzos.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 55 minutes ago
1988?!?!?! I need my smelling salts.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
OK, I know so much less about singing than does Marilyn Horne, but to me it sounds like the way she chose to sing — so forward, so masky, some have said nasal — put a kind of horizontal...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
Will definitely look for you (and your cowboy boots?) at the May 1st Aida. We walk over from Cafe Fiorello so are usually there on the early side when the pole isn't as crowded.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
Well, good on her for going for the high D flat. And that's about all I can say.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 2 hours ago
I'm looking for a strong bottom. No, wait, I'm looking for a power bottom.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
Great choice. Thank you.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
Knight and deh, hahaha
Helen Traubel started and I think ended as a contralto. Some claim Kate Smith usually billed as a contralto was really a dramatic soprano with a strong bottom.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
Great in OTHELLO too, all of twelve years ago- and a lovely man.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
Bumbry early in her career sang contralto oratorio parts. And also Orfeo.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
I would imagine it's because the last Met HD of Figaro was back in 2014. Maybe the Met decided not to have the HD for Moby Dick because there's already a DVD from San Francisco of the...
Finer line between those 2 things than people sometimes realise, I think! We've had Jones condemned to contraltodom as a student who realised fairly early on in her professional career that...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 4 hours ago
By accounts JB was excellent in the West End production of The Last 5 Years - and it was directed by the composer Jason Robert Brown.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 4 hours ago
I see. It's weird - I remember watching extended excerpts on YouTube a while back, including full length duets with Adalgisa etc, but they don't now seem to be on there.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
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“The island is only small / But the fairies inhabiting it / Welcome us all”
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