Due to a complaint by Universal Music Group/DG, La Cieca has had to remove the music track of “In questa reggia” from our site. A substitute track is available on Spotify.
I agree completely but my only real knowledge of her as a soprano are Wagner excerpts where she sounds wrong but not in terms of the timbre per se.. The soprano roles you've listed I...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 0 minutes ago
Don't you think that about literally all her soprano roles though? I do. It's really mystifying how she ever went in that direction - the available stuff I've heard (Mimi,...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 9 minutes ago
New La Monnaie season (scroll down) Keenlyside as Falstaff. Sally Matthews as Norma.:
https://www.lamonnaiedemunt.be/fr/program
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 19 minutes ago
I heard that persons in the audience gasped when Caballe pulled out her trademark pianissimo in her big opening aria. Yep, there are times when a star is born.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 19 minutes ago
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 23 minutes ago
Does anyone know how this live performance was recorded? Was there a radio broadcast? Regardless, I am glad somebody captured it.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 29 minutes ago
Thrilled to see your nom de guerre La Fatale. Your treasured appearances, rare as they are, thrill and delight. Goddess bless you for your submission! Now I have something marvelous to occupy my...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 32 minutes ago
Weird that Horne was the original Lucrezia cast. I understand she was doing soprano rep at that time and there's probably nothing in score she couldn't have handled. Still can't...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 40 minutes ago
I'm going to take the papal legate's aria to my next lesson, just for you.
Agree that the RCA recording, even with a wonderful cast, does not come close to this historic live event. Some performances just can't be duplicated. And, bless the pirates for souvenirs like...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
Thanks, Rich, for reminding us of one of AOS's fabled nights. One of my pandemic projects was to assemble a chronology of the American Opera Society which La Cieca was kind enough to publish...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
I heard Romain Dayez in Haydn's IL MONDO DELLA LUNA in Metz 2 years ago. A certified and very out barihunk.
Not a chamber instrument, either!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 4 hours ago
La Voix humaine with organ (how weird) and the lovely Anne-Catherine Gillet. Her Micaela last season was great, so I will give it a go. But what is next? Der Hirt auf dem Felsen with trombone?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 5 hours ago
Yep, 116 MARTHA shows (in Italian and then English) and 110 MIGNON (in Italian and then French) shows. More than ERNANI, WERTHER or ARIADNE!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 7 hours ago
In the spirit of Easter--He who is not guilty may cast the first stone.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 7 hours ago
Giggle & snort---To quote Joe E Brown's final line in Some Like It Hot---"well nobody's perfect"!! James just sent bitch slaps to those two!!??
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 7 hours ago
The repertory is so narrow and restrictive now that there isn't much room for some of these artists. Bernheim, for example, should be doing Faust, Werther, Des Grieux as often as possible...
I saw this in the house this evening. It was not flawless, but it was great fun and - as always - the vocal problems we hear in the streams were not as pronounced. Milling is no longer the singer I...
"What if you shut up about this one thing" - my therapist, probably
Due to a complaint by Universal Music Group/DG, La Cieca has had to remove the music track of “In questa reggia” from our site. A substitute track is available on Spotify.
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