I love the comments that really seem to think they balanced the positive with the negative — “sure I called her a hysterical, yodeling, vulgar cream cake but I also said it was brilliant! Totally fair!”
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 · 3 minutes ago
Even though there is no interval.
Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 12 minutes ago
This lady is new to me but she seems to have a burgeoning career in Europe.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 12 minutes 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...
Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 18 minutes ago
It always struck me as over-engineered.
Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 28 minutes ago
And her lawyer as one of Amneris' slaves.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 47 minutes ago
That Puritani is my top choice of her performances in the role. The "O vieni al tempio" was a marvel. She canceled the Semiramide at the Met from illness.
Let me see what I can do. I've been wanting to do this for some time; first and lasting impressions count, and there's recordings of hers I'd tell prospective listeners to avoid.
The piece disappeared quite rapidly, it seems; and in the dawn of recorded sound there seems to be no evidence of it even being a fringe thing for singers. Gencer brought it back, then Montsy, then...
ON this date in history: In 404 BC, The 2nd Peloponneisan War, between Sparta and Athens, was ended after Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockaded Athens. IN 1134, The name Zagreb...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
Yes it is sad. Unfortunately, the jury is still out on whether she has sufficiently recovered to pursue the big roles.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
Sally Matthews has done Norma before of course - I think it was even at La Monnaie. Some of it is on YouTube, was pretty good if I recall correctly.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
Any idea what has been wrong with her? From the Berlin announcement it sounded like something more complicated than under the weather.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
Hera Hyseang Park as Illia would be wonderful to hear. Some of Mozart's most beautiful arias in one of our current most beautiful voices.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
Here is another soprano role in San Francisco - Jackie's Nedda in "Pagliacci" at the side of Del Monaco and Bastianini with Oliviero de Fabritiis conducting.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
I'll be very interested to hear this Salome. I've never felt the studio recording really works.
In her current condition?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 5 hours ago
And I thought I'm the only one who keeps whishing she'd sing that - though I would prefer it in german. She could tackle it and would be a fascinating Salome!
I used to find her somehow chilly and disengaged, so I was taken aback by her powerful performance in Onegin at La Monnaie in 2023. Then, last year, she was a chilling (not chilly) Governess...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 6 hours ago
I love the comments that really seem to think they balanced the positive with the negative — “sure I called her a hysterical, yodeling, vulgar cream cake but I also said it was brilliant! Totally fair!”
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