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- Krunoslav
  As has been mentioned here before, Jennifer Johnson Cano is currently doing her role debut in the role at Arizona Opera. Raehann Bryce-Davis has sung it in Europe. Olesya Petrova was a VERY...
  
  Fathered in · 4 minutes ago
- Moe Rear
  And I skipped Gedda because I had already seen him as Faust a few times.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 11 minutes ago
- Krunoslav
  And the availability of Gedda to the Met for a quarter century was certainly one reason why his presence at the Met was not deemed essential to Bing's Met in core French rep, of which there...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 13 minutes ago
- Krunoslav
  Yup. I think I first heard Vanzo on records when I was in high school, maybe on the PÉRICHOLE with Crespin. So I went looking for more. He may never have been a marquee name in North America but a...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 18 minutes ago
- Moe Rear
  I still don't think Renee deserved this reaction from the audience. I am positive this audience has endured truly bad singing before and after this performance. And I repeat what I have said...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 20 minutes ago
- Benedetta Funghi-Trifolati
  Gobbi is a great favorite of mine. How I envy you having seen him in (or should I say as) GIANNI SCHICCHI.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 21 minutes ago
- Benedetta Funghi-Trifolati
  Moi aussi. The "other" Faust in that 1976 visit of the Paris Opera was Gedda. Vanzo AND Gedda. Not too shabby.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 29 minutes ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  Interesting. But there’s no evidence of an incestuous relationship with her brother, other than rumors, according to wikipedia. (That supposedly is what led Sforza, her first husband, to murder...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 55 minutes ago
- Moe Rear
  The best Aunt Eller I've seen live is Mary Wickes when Oklahoma was revived on Broadway many years ago.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- Moe Rear
  I saw Vanzo once as Faust with the Paris Opera's visit. That was it for me. I became a forever fan.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- TC
  A terrific start. And a hell of a boost from that early age. I made it to my first opera only through the good graces of Mr. Bond, the Alfred Drake-wannabe Junior High choral director who schlepped...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- TC
  Just to be clear: my admiration for Vanzo goes back 40 years so is neither a "recent Parterre infatuation" nor a "fad." And of course it's based on his recordings: I...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- Krunoslav
  Not sure I find that surprising. Surely only a few here heard Wunderlich or Souzay or Gorr live either...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- Krunoslav
  Indeed I was. They had me going to concerts and theater, including G& S, at age 4. Opera at age 11. But the bug really kicked in when they gave me and my siblings tickets to a few things on their...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- thenoctambulist
  Well, who cares for versmilitude in an opera? Yes, it is more realistic to end without the rondo but it is a magnificent cabaletta. Wouldn't it miss for the world.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- thenoctambulist
  Lucrezia Borgia is my favorite Donizetti too. It was the first opera of Gaetano I heard and I fell in hook line and sinker for Gaetano. I love my every bit of this opera but here is a great...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- RudigerVT
  Well. This choice seems natural, almost inevitable. And perfect. Along with Dessì, the great Italian prima donnae of an era.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 hours ago
- TC
  What? No detailed review delivered fresh to their 5-year-old at home? Imagine! But what I'm really trying to imagine is my parents giving their 15-year-old tickets to see anyone...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 hours ago
- rapt
  I don't get this--why admiring a singer based only on recordings is necessarily a sign of a fad. If so, I have a similar faddish admiration for Bergonzi, Corelli, Schipa, and a number of...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 hours ago
- Sylvia K
  someone on twitter said this show looks and sounds like a cutaway gag on 30 Rock -- seems like that about sums it up
  
  From California to the New York island · 3 hours ago