“Tenor Stephen Costello will sing the role of Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday, December 26, replacing Juan Diego Flórez, who is ill,” reads the latest newsflash from the Met’s press office.
Did Gedda ever sing Tonio with Freni--or anyone?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 3 minutes ago
Correct. It is a playing card.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 22 minutes ago
It is even debatable whether the Old Countess is actually the Queen of Spades of the title.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 26 minutes ago
SUOR ANGELICA Suor Angelica Corinne Winters La Zia Principessa Marie-Nicole Lemieux La badessa Annunziata Vestri La Suora Zelatrice Irene Savignano La Maestra delle Novizie Carlotta Vichi Suor...
https://youtu.be/noqrywV79LM?si=6tmS5409-SozQpmN&t=9555
Better than Donizetti, anyway.
Cat on a hot tin roof
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 56 minutes ago
Posting to policy pipeline!
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...
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 · 1 hour ago
You mean, he left at the intermission ? BTW, Roberto Alagna made his debut at Garnier only at a slightly earlier age than Alfredo Kraus, at 52 (in Le Cid) and he didn’t often sing at Bastille...
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-...
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...
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...
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.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
Living in Paris, I never saw her even once.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
Thank you Cornelia. What a thrilling choice!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... April 23, 1961. The greatest night in entertainment history.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
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 · 3 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 · 3 hours ago
“Tenor Stephen Costello will sing the role of Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday, December 26, replacing Juan Diego Flórez, who is ill,” reads the latest newsflash from the Met’s press office.
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