The trill of it all
Born on this day in 1926 soprano Joan Sutherland.
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I zonked out when I got home from teaching. Exhausted after two 12 hour days
I remember Sills & Price as getting more publicity in national media than others!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 37 minutes ago
The 1933 Broadway production? Was Lenya in that?
I think her having a deaf daughter & mentally retarded son would be a terrible sorrow to carry during a glorious career!?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 49 minutes ago
Oh? very interesting
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 1 hour ago
It takes some effort to get the voice moving in the florid parts. And she pretty much sticks with the score, no high interpolations. A top B flat at that point is the voice's upper limit.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 1 hour ago
I heard the Philly broadcast & was able td pause the opera on Sirius!! Best of both worlds--the Mahler was fab & opera gloriously bouncing along on delay--Brownlee stunning!
Farrell recounts Mitropolous did the singers to use a score. If they needed to refer to it, they had to clomp over to his podium where the score rested.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 1 hour ago
The late Albert Innaurato aka Mrs. John Claggart gives one of the more insightful reflections and analyses of her art, voice, and personality in the booklet notes to the Testament CD reissue of her...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 2 hours ago
The end of “Make /our Garden Grow” always gets to me. It builds from solo to duet to ensemble of soloists and the suddenly the orchestra drops out and the (hopefully) huge chorus erupts in 8+ part...
The MEDEA is a one LP excerpt disc with André Turp and Flagello.Since they had to CUT they CUT Glauce's aria. Not to mention Neris' aria. Sills and maybe Florence Kopleff would have been...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 2 hours ago
Although I did not see the original Broadway production, when I was in college (CSU Long Beach) in the ‘70s, the music library had both the vocal score AND the libretto from the original production...
I know you're probably like "oh christ there goes Fletch posting Júlia" but Seiffert does some really wonderful singing on the whole record
Yes, you've already said.
Well, the grudge against Horne is certainly reciprocated. In her bio, Horne’s comes down hard (big time!) over Sills’ behavior when they did L’Assedio di Corinto)!!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 2 hours ago
She has appeared several times recently in South Florida. The percussion instructor at the college where I work (who was the drummer on the OC Ain’t Misbehavin’) played for her several times.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 2 hours ago
Beverly Wolf also does fine work in the recording.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 2 hours ago
The staging and costumes in this productionswere in many ways much more HIP than the approach to the music, although Sills’s ornamentations were very in Baroque style.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 2 hours ago
Thank you! I've always thought so. And I've never liked his music.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 2 hours ago
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