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- PCally
  I'm just glad Gens is still active, even if she seems pretty hit and miss.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 3 minutes ago
- PCally
  Lovely interview - always love being reminded at how wide ranging her repertoire has been.
  
  Strauss test · 15 minutes ago
- PCally
  As a sound I think I like her mid-late 1960s recordings of stuff like Adalgisa (in the studio, the performance I've heard where she sings it in the original keys live is a struggle) and the...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 34 minutes ago
- CKurwenal
  I'm less sure about that one, but happy to give her the benefit of the doubt, based on what I've read from other people on here. On paper I'd rather have an actual current contralto...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 38 minutes ago
- CKurwenal
  Yeah, I know what you mean, and her early San Francisco years sort of prove your point. I think of Marie in Wozzeck as an outlier because I think as long as a voice is big enough, it can succeed...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 40 minutes ago
- Ask a librarian
  Gens as Irene.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 45 minutes ago
- CKurwenal
  Lewek as Elettra is a nice piece of casting, and Leah Hawkins for Tosca.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 49 minutes ago
- PCally
  I agree completely but my only real knowledge of her as a soprano are Wagner excerpts where she sounds wrong but not in terms of the timbre per se.. The soprano roles you've listed I...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 52 minutes ago
- CKurwenal
  Don't you think that about literally all her soprano roles though? I do. It's really mystifying how she ever went in that direction - the available stuff I've heard (Mimi,...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
- Ask a librarian
  New La Monnaie season (scroll down) Keenlyside as Falstaff. Sally Matthews as Norma.:
  https://www.lamonnaiedemunt.be/fr/program
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
- scott grunow
  I heard that persons in the audience gasped when Caballe pulled out her trademark pianissimo in her big opening aria. Yep, there are times when a star is born.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  https://youtu.be/ztLqhVaYPiM?si=JjnOnHMTPPrdYK98
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 1 hour ago
- CwbyLA
  Does anyone know how this live performance was recorded? Was there a radio broadcast? Regardless, I am glad somebody captured it.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
- Williams
  Thrilled to see your nom de guerre La Fatale. Your treasured appearances, rare as they are, thrill and delight. Goddess bless you for your submission! Now I have something marvelous to occupy my...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
- PCally
  Weird that Horne was the original Lucrezia cast. I understand she was doing soprano rep at that time and there's probably nothing in score she couldn't have handled. Still can't...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
- CKurwenal
  I'm going to take the papal legate's aria to my next lesson, just for you.
  
  Brain Wurm · 1 hour ago
- Moe Rear
  Agree that the RCA recording, even with a wonderful cast, does not come close to this historic live event. Some performances just can't be duplicated. And, bless the pirates for souvenirs like...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
- CCorwinNYC
  Thanks, Rich, for reminding us of one of AOS's fabled nights. One of my pandemic projects was to assemble a chronology of the American Opera Society which La Cieca was kind enough to publish...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 3 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  I heard Romain Dayez in Haydn's IL MONDO DELLA LUNA in Metz 2 years ago. A certified and very out barihunk.
  
  Fractured féerie tales · 3 hours ago
- NPW--Paris
  Not a chamber instrument, either!
  https://youtu.be/kAIR03Id2-g?si=xreMZHZO5CPf3cl7
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 5 hours ago