“Due to illness, soprano Nadine Sierra is unable to perform. Replacing Ms. Sierra in the title role of Lucia is Russian soprano Albina Shagimuratova, who has sung the role to great success at [etc].” [San Francisco Opera]
Nice review. No surprise about Rebeka. She's on the 2 last most satisfactory operas set I've bought lately. La Vestale and Il Pirata.
I going to see her latter on Milan as Norma.
Though not an Italianate sound (which is what I always heard from her detractors), Gruberova completely commanded the art of singing with everything she touched. A complete artist as this wonderful...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 minutes ago
Freni unexpectdly was an very efective Marie in the 60's and well in the 70's often partened by Pavarotti, Kraus, Gedda.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 4 minutes ago
You mean, he left at the intermission ?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 4 minutes ago
NOS (THE NOSE) is another such opera. As is OBERON. Also Weis’ DER POLNISCHE JUDE and Erlanger’s LE JUIF POLONAIS, based on the same source. I’d say Ghermann is the main character in PIKOVAJA DAMA-...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 27 minutes ago
Forum Opera summed up her limited career in France: ‘Edita made her French debut in 1976 with Die schweigsame Frau, in concert for Radio France. Apart from a recital at Garnier in...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 32 minutes ago
I wish I had had the opportunity to see her more. I caught one of her truly astonishing Zerbinettas at Covent Garden, and then a farewell concert in Berlin at the very end of her career. That was...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 34 minutes ago
She wasn't exactly around in New York either. My first time was what I think were her last Met performances, Puritani. The Borgia was a concert performance in Vienna.
Living in Paris, I never saw her even once.
Thank you Cornelia. What a thrilling choice!
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... April 23, 1961. The greatest night in entertainment history.
One of the few opere in which the main character is not the title character (like Hérodiade)?
Who’s the tenor?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
All I can say is omg! For some reason, I have never listened much to Gruberova, even though Niel's discussions of her on parterre have made me respect and admire her. But this clip has flipped...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
I “grew up” on that first Callas Lucia recording so I’ve always had a special fondness for that opera as well. Vocally the greatest Lucia I ever heard was Sutherland in 1982 at the Met. Yes, it was...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Ali Kashani · 2 hours ago
The Paris Theodora was a strange evening. Rather than a coherent opera, even in concert, it felt like a sort of Händel gala evening, in which superstar showpieces were interspersed with...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 2 hours ago
In-house recording of Amanda's 2017 Juliet:
https://youtu.be/5zhRdSZtkTI
Same on second and final, but Bolena for me rather than Borgia.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
Great choice - one of my favorite videos of this opera.
My second and final time seeing Gruberova was in a Donizetti opera, Lucrezia Borgia.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
I thought she was great as Alcina at the ROH. I was less keen on the Theodora which I put down to it being at a=415 and also being a slightly lower set role in the first place. I think a a=440...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 3 hours ago
Fixed. I was testing you. You passed. :-)
A favorite Donizetti performance from Ali Kashani · 3 hours ago
“Due to illness, soprano Nadine Sierra is unable to perform. Replacing Ms. Sierra in the title role of Lucia is Russian soprano Albina Shagimuratova, who has sung the role to great success at [etc].” [San Francisco Opera]
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