Shocker of the century! The New York Times reveals that Met singers are miked!*
* For some broadcasts and telecasts, and “infrequent instances” for “a special sound effect.”
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 · 9 minutes ago
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.
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 · 55 minutes ago
No, but I'm trying.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 57 minutes ago
You mean you are not?
Ah je ris !
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
So so review in the Times:
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
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 · 1 hour ago
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 · 1 hour ago
Not only has Davidsen sung Salome, it's been her best role by far.
Thanks for sharing the Offers selection. A true contralto some claim, but the Bach cantatas website claims she was a dramatic soprano with an impressive lower register.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
I am amazed they are doing an HD of Marriage of Figaro. They have so many of the classic operas tons of Turondots, Bohemes but did not broadcast Moby Dick which I am sure would have been popular
Yes, La Monnaie's Norma was one of those productions that got hit by Covid. I don't know how many times they managed to perform it in public, if at all. You can certainly find...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
And especially in I am love!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
She is the singer who was brought in to replace Lisette when she dropped out of the upcoming Faust at Covent Garden.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
Kulchynska's Susanna is featured on the Met's Nozze HD tomorrow.
Honestly, I have no idea. However, I picked up a nasty upper respiratory thing in late February/early March that lingered on until April. It went down to my chest which usually doesn't happen...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
Even though there is no interval.
This lady is new to me but she seems to have a burgeoning career in Europe.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 2 hours ago
Like YNS, Solti was sometimes accused of being too loud and of favoring effects over insight. Salome will play to YNS' strengths and will give him plenty of opportunities to show off. He may...
It always struck me as over-engineered.
Shocker of the century! The New York Times reveals that Met singers are miked!*
* For some broadcasts and telecasts, and “infrequent instances” for “a special sound effect.”
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