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- Sanford Schimel
  I'm looking for a strong bottom. No, wait, I'm looking for a power bottom.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 minutes ago
- southerndoc1
  Great choice. Thank you.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 12 minutes ago
- grimoaldo2
  Knight and deh, hahaha
  
  Knight and deh · 22 minutes ago
- scott grunow
  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 · 40 minutes ago
- Armerjacquino
  Great in OTHELLO too, all of twelve years ago- and a lovely man.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 41 minutes ago
- scott grunow
  Bumbry early in her career sang contralto oratorio parts. And also Orfeo.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 41 minutes ago
- Cornelia
  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...
  
  Knight and deh · 49 minutes ago
- CKurwenal
  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 · 52 minutes ago
- MisterSnow
  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 · 1 hour ago
- CKurwenal
  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 · 1 hour ago
- Peter Russell
  Jesse Green and David Hyde Pierce were at Yale College together. Some of us vividly recall discovering David through a brilliant performance as Sir Joseph in a mid-1970s Yale G & S Society...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
- Armerjacquino
  I’d watch Jinkx read the phone book so if I were in NYC this would be an easy decision
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 2 hours ago
- CCorwinNYC
  Given there not HDs fir Moby, Antony and Cleopatra and The Adventures of klay and Cavalier I'm guessing contemporary operas don't sell well.
  
  Knight and deh · 2 hours ago
- Ask a librarian
  She refused to sing in Germany after Hitler came to power there, and she refused to become a member of the Dutch Kultuurkamer during the war, preventing her from performing in the Netherlands as well.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  No, but I'm trying.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  You mean you are not?
  Ah je ris !
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
- Peter
  So so review in the Times:
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  I'd sooner become a virgin. "Jazz, blues, Dixieland, boogie-woogie, soft-shoe, calypso, rag and rumba in catchy new arrangements" is just too many words. It sounds like the buffet at...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
- Last Castrato
  Has anyone been brave enough to buy a ticket for Pirates, the Penzance Musical on Broadway? I learned my lesson many years ago at a revival of the Hot Mikado and prefer not to have my G&S...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
- David Yllanes
  Not only has Davidsen sung Salome, it's been her best role by far.
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 3 hours ago