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- Niel Rishoi
  It was the stuff of one's dreams: and RCA showed up immediately with a recording contract.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 0 minutes ago
- Niel Rishoi
  She quit singing at the Met after she had essayed all her prime roles; after the success and sellouts of the puritani, they asked Edita what she'd like to sing. The 3 queens and more...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 4 minutes ago
- Niel Rishoi
  If you are interested, I'll give you some lists of the clips to seek out - and those to avoid. Yes- there's material I would not recommend to those unfamiliar with her art.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 7 minutes ago
- Niel Rishoi
  The decorations in the second verse, and the mix of happy-mad-sad emotions is to me one of her finest accomplishments.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 11 minutes ago
- CKurwenal
  That's surprising - he's definitely always had some problems but I never thought being heard was one of them.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 11 minutes ago
- Ask a librarian
  Have not heard him recently, but he just sang Ford in the Bieito Falstaff and got excellent reviews for that.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 13 minutes ago
- Niel Rishoi
  Agreed. Accurate traversal of the score, in her vocal prime, and investing in the drama with incredible detail. She sang the role for 29 years. The last would have been in 2020 in Kosice but Covid...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 14 minutes ago
- Cornelia
  I really enjoy this Devereux, but I think it's harder to appreciate purely on its own terms, since some of Gruberova's late-career mannerisms can be off-putting for those who weren't...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 27 minutes ago
- PCally
  I adore a lot of her recordings - actually like her on that Faust recording even if the top isn't really there. The only time I saw her live was a tossed together Falstaff revival. Not rep she...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 29 minutes ago
- Cornelia
  How is Keenlyside sounding these days? I never really thought he could sing anything bigger than Belcome (his Met Posa was one of the few times I would every describe a singer as inaudible because...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 35 minutes ago
- PCally
  She was talking about wanting to do it years ago, a shame it took so long. I'm still hoping a broadcast of her Armide turns up somewhere - that's one someone should have cast her in years...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 46 minutes ago
- Harry Rose
  In perhaps the most bizarre pairing of work to director I've ever seen, next year's Florence May Festival will feature The Death of Klinghoffer directed by Luca Guadagnino
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 50 minutes ago
- Sanford Schimel
  https://youtu.be/4OY5UKD5HWA?si=c64PbphoGvr6OnMD
  
  Fractured féerie tales · 50 minutes ago
- Last Castrato
  I’ll be seeing one of her debut Marschallins in Paris in a month. Hopefully more hit than miss.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 54 minutes ago
- CKurwenal
  Perhaps I should go and see her Wigmore recital in September. Other than a Jewel Song on radio 3 a year or 2 back, with a very glaring and insecure top b, I don't think I've heard her at all, even...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 54 minutes ago
- MisterSnow
  When I was a student at CSU Long Beach in the ‘70s, Nolan Van Way was on the voice faculty as well as Sara McFerrin (Bobby’s mom). Alas, I did not have the opportunity to study with either of then....
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 1 hour ago
- PCally
  I'm just glad Gens is still active, even if she seems pretty hit and miss.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
- PCally
  Lovely interview - always love being reminded at how wide ranging her repertoire has been.
  
  Strauss test · 1 hour ago
- PCally
  As a sound I think I like her mid-late 1960s recordings of stuff like Adalgisa (in the studio, the performance I've heard where she sings it in the original keys live is a struggle) and the...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
- CKurwenal
  I'm less sure about that one, but happy to give her the benefit of the doubt, based on what I've read from other people on here. On paper I'd rather have an actual current contralto...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago