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Thank you. You are doing triple duty today. I saw Carnival when I was a child and fell in love with this musical. During the song Beautiful Candy they had vendors going down the aisles throwing...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 7 minutes ago
Pure elegance. The last great Italian baritone.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 25 minutes ago
Hence so many operas as well as this one appearing with different titles, character names, new locations to avoid the censor. I finally sat down and watched it on youtube - a rather horrid and arid...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 38 minutes ago
Jélyotte was the first Platée.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 44 minutes ago
I have a soft spot for Les Martyrs, especially the Spyres/ El Khoury recording. They're both on fire here!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 53 minutes ago
Hope you get another shot at playing it!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 57 minutes ago
Well, this week, I turned down a chance to audition for the title role in Man of La Mancha. It's a community theater production in Jerusalem and doesn't pay, and I would have had to shell...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 1 hour ago
IN history on this date: IN 1613, Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, set off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 1 hour ago
I had the pleasure of hearing Bruson in a late career I due Foscari in Rome with Leontina Vaduva.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 1 hour ago
Good heavens what a traversal! I availed myself of the two intermissions to sip my coffee and dip my croissant. Look forward to the “in history” part of the cycle. Thanks as always Sanford.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 1 hour ago
Herodes - Nikolai Schukoff Herodias - Anna Maria Chiuri Salome - Lidia Fridman Jochanaan - Brian Mulligan Narraboth - Eric Fennell Ein Page der Herodias - Marvic Monreal Funf Juden - Arnold...
Fully convinced this time by the very theatrical Guggeis: constant tension and lots of great details. What a good idea to reprise the brindisi a bit slower: the spring is broken. Discovery of...
Those curious to hear Bruson in this role in the French version Les Martyrs can find a complete performance opposite Leyla Gencer along with a more recent Poliuto with Sondra...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 1 hour ago
In theater on this date part 3: Laurence Fishburne made his Broadway debut in August Wilson’s 1992 play, Two Trains Running, directed by Lloyd Richards. Roscoe Lee Browne (his final B’way show),...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 2 hours ago
IN theater on this date part 2: William Saroyan’s first Broadway play was My Heart’s in the Highlands in 1939. Robert Lewis, a member of The Actors Studio, made his Broadway directing debut with...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 2 hours ago
IN theater on this date part 1: The first show to open on this date was Offenbach’s Paris and Helen in 1868 to an English adaptation by Molyneux S. John. It is, of course, La Belle Helene. 3 years...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 2 hours ago
It's gonna be one of those when Disqus makes me work extra hard to post my posts.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 2 hours ago
Quite possible that he was drawn more to the content than the form.
I get irritated by this label proto-Verdi. Maybe all Verdi should be called Deutero-Donizetti. But Poliuto is fab, a barn burner, so is Les Martyrs. It has more gorgeous additions.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 3 hours ago
Amore Opera mounted Poliuto (wait, that doesn't sound right) in 2016. I saw it and considering it's basically a neighborhood company, they did an excellent job. Eli Jacobson probably saw...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 3 hours ago
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