Streaming and discussion begin at 11:00 AM EDT and continue through early Sunday morning.
Patrick Mack’s moving recollection of the live event can be found here.
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
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 · 10 minutes 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 · 14 minutes 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 · 16 minutes 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 · 51 minutes 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 · 2 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 · 4 hours ago
I went twice to that one.
Petrova was if not especially individual fully up to the role.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 5 hours ago
Fascinating! I had not heard that about Robert Stephens. Bob Mackie did Costa's costumes in later years including her Violetta costumes and her Merry Widow costumes. In Mackie's book,...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 7 hours ago
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. I remembered that Isabel Leonard sang an Armenian song with musicians from the Met Orchestra as part of a covid air flow study. I thought it was by Komitas,...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 7 hours ago
She has been a hit at Palm Beach Opera for the past 2 seasons (Hoffman and Romeo et Juliette). The operas for 2026 are Boheme, The Pearl Fishers, and Rigoletto. While Lewek could certainly sing a...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 7 hours ago
Sounds fun, though Idomeneo always sounds fun to me.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 9 hours ago
It surprised me too, as I enjoyed the broadcast of the premiere very much. Maybe it was YNS or the production, which I recall was a fairly bare stage.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 9 hours ago
Your post reminds me of a wonderful album that came out last year called Music In Times of War, which juxtaposes music of Debussy and Komitas (think Armenia's Bartok in terms of ethnographic...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 9 hours ago
Very, very interesting, indeed. Thanks.
Gramilano is just now getting the news out about Anita's lawsuit. Here it is:
very very sorry situation
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 9 hours ago
Interesting comment. Thanks for being straight forward about your perceptions. I knew of a critic who was accused of listening to the best recording he could discover before the concert and...
Just listened to (more or less) the first half of Salome. It may not be a good idea less than a week before I will see Salome in the house. It's not just that Nilsson is sui generis, but even...
Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 10 hours ago
Streaming and discussion begin at 11:00 AM EDT and continue through early Sunday morning.
Patrick Mack’s moving recollection of the live event can be found here.
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
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